ratio
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So the fund’s net expense ratio is 0.85%, but its full expense ratio is 0.94%.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
Their returns over the coming years may well be on the lower end of historical norms if valuation measures such as Professor Robert Shiller’s cyclically-adjusted price/earnings ratio still have predictive value.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
This has caused the ratio of realized volatility on up days to down days to reach the highest level on a calendar-month basis for both indexes since at least 1986, McElligott said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
Citi retains its buy rating and trims its target price to 495.00 Hong Kong dollars from HK$530.00, assuming the stock trades at 31 times the price-to-earnings ratio of estimated 2027 earnings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
The ratio of men to women in the University is about ten to one.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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Here are the largest 10 holdings of the VanEck Gold Miners ETF, with a summary of opinion among analysts polled by LSEG, as well as forward and trailing P/E ratios:
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
Oppenheimer and his colleagues pointed to the derating of dominant technology companies, whose lower price-to-earnings ratios have been driven by anxiety over the returns that capital expenditure might yield in the future.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
County nonprofit that contracts with Head Start, expects child-to-teacher ratios to default to those already outlined for state preschool and general child care — if that guidance is left up to the state.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
The market boom has also boosted the funding ratios of government pension funds, which Equable estimates hit 85% nationwide this year—the highest since 2007.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
Mendel’s ratios and numbers were not just accurate; they were too perfect.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Vance has been repeatedly ratioed on X ever since, a small but telling sign that the usual outrage machine is misfiring.
From Salon ● Jan. 14, 2026
They’ve become an entire syntax of communication; many a fine dunk below a ratioed tweet consists of a single GIF.
From The Verge ● Jul. 13, 2022
They also see in Ellis a persona who can laugh off getting ratioed amid a watch-your-step social media culture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2021
I asked if he had ever done a bad tweet, or been ratioed.
From Slate ● Feb. 26, 2021
The news that McCabe found a new gig was broken by CNN’s in-house media reporter Oliver Darcy, and his tweet was quickly met with criticism and swiftly ratioed.
From Fox News ● Aug. 23, 2019
Candy preference ratioing gets fierce during Spooky Season.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2022
Never has so much ratioing left the internet all at once.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 22, 2017
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