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The total goods that pass through Ukrainian ports shot up to 97.2 million metric tons in 2024 from 62 million tons in 2023, according to the Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

Brinkman pointed to earnings per share, a key metric that shows how profitable a company is.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026

He now expects Tesla to report 30 cents on that metric for the first quarter, but he said consensus expectations for this period “once stood as high as $3.68.”

From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026

The plan also suggests getting rid of GPA as an internal metric, instead using percentile rank to calculate honors like cum laude recognition.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

After supper Gilly did her homework, knowing it was useless, that Miss Harris would never see the neat figures, row on row, that proved that Gilly Hopkins had met and mastered the metric system.

From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson