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  • 11Dividend Payout Ratio — The percentage of earnings paid to shareholders in dividends. Calculated as: The payout ratio provides an idea of how well earnings support the dividend payments. More mature companies tend to have a higher payout ratio. In the U.K. there is a… …

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  • 12Target payout ratio — A firm s long run dividend to earnings ratio. The firm s policy is to attempt to pay out a certain percentage of earnings, but it pays a stated dollar dividend and adjusts it to the target as base line increases in earnings occur. The New York… …

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  • 13target payout ratio — A firm s long run dividend to earnings ratio. The firm s policy is to attempt to pay out a certain percentage of earnings, but it pays a stated dollar dividend and adjusts it to the target as base line increases in earnings occur. Bloomberg… …

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  • 14ratio — the proportional relationship of one thing to another * * * ratio ra‧ti‧o [ˈreɪʆiəʊ ǁ ˈreɪʆoʊ] noun [countable] a relationship between two amounts that is represented by a pair of numbers showing how much greater one amount is than the other: •… …

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  • 15payout dei dividendi —   Dividend payout ratio   Rapporto tra il totale dei dividendi distribuiti agli azionisti e l utile d esercizio della società. Quanto più è alto tale rapporto, maggiore sarà la maturità gestionale dell impresa …

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  • 16Financial ratio — Corporate finance …

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  • 17Plowback Ratio — A fundamental analysis ratio that measures the amount of earnings retained after dividends have been paid out. This is the opposite of the payout ratio, which measures the amount of dividends that are paid out as a percentage of earnings. Also… …

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  • 18Retention 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… …

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  • 19Retention Ratio — The percent of earnings credited to retained earnings. In other words, the proportion of net income that is not paid out as dividends. Calculated as: The retention ratio is the opposite of the dividend payout ratio. In fact, it can also be… …

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  • 20Sharpe ratio — The Sharpe ratio or Sharpe index or Sharpe measure or reward to variability ratio is a measure of the excess return (or risk premium) per unit of deviation in an investment asset or a trading strategy, typically referred to as risk (and is a… …

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