retention rate
1Retention rate — A retention rate measures how long a news server holds articles from a given newsgroup.News Servers do not have unlimited storage, and due to this fact they can only hold posts for a short length of time before they must delete them in order to… …
2Retention rate — The percentage of present earnings held back or retained by a corporation, or one minus the dividend payout rate. Also called the retention ratio. The New York Times Financial Glossary …
3retention rate — The percentage of present earnings held back or retained by a corporation, or one minus the dividend payout rate . Also called the retention ratio . Bloomberg Financial Dictionary …
4Retention ratio — indicates the percentage of a company s earnings that are not paid out in dividends but credited to retained earnings. It is the opposite of the dividend payout ratio, so that also called the retention rate.Retention Ratio = 1 Dividend Payout… …
5retention — The number of units allocated to an underwriting syndicate member less the units held back by the syndicate manager for facilitating institutional sales and for allocation to nonmember firms . In the context of construction contracts, an amount… …
6retention ratio — UK US noun [S] ACCOUNTING, FINANCE ► the percentage of a company s profits that it decides to keep, rather than paying it to the shareholders as a dividend (= part of the profit that is paid to shareholders): »The higher the retention ratio (i.e …
7earnings retention rate — The percent of current period earnings retained by the firm as opposed to being paid out as dividends or partners withdrawals. The after tax net income minus dividends then divided by the after tax net income. Not to be confused with retained… …
8Retention basin — Trounce Pond, a retention basin landscaped with natural grassland plants, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada …
9Churn Rate — Abwanderungsrate, Kundenverlustrate, Begriff aus dem Kundenbindungsmanagement, Kunstwort aus Change (Wechsel) und Turn (Abkehr); gibt den Anteil abgewanderter Kunden einer Periode an, bezogen auf den durchschnittlichen Kundenbestand in diesem… …
10customer retention — UK US noun [U] COMMERCE ► the fact of keeping a customer for a period of time: customer retention rate/ratio »The firm s customer retention rate has remained steady at 82% …
