ratio
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Also, the Thai bank’s credit costs should fall on quarter in 4Q, thanks to better asset quality and its robust non-performing loan coverage ratio of 322%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
And the forward price-to-earnings ratio for Komatsu’s ADR is 15, while Caterpillar’s forward P/E is 23, according to FactSet.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
The S&P 500’s cyclically-adjusted price/earnings ratio isn’t far from its tech bubble record, so what might be a 20% selloff in stocks could be more like that episode, when stocks dropped by half.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
France, in fact, has a slightly lower debt-to-GDP ratio than the U.S.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
I scribble another ratio on the pad of paper.
From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty
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Only Aguero and Hernandez, of players to have scored at least 10 goals as a sub, have better goals-per-game ratios than him.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
With advanced economies seeing bond yields surge -- owing to elevated inflation expectations, surging debt ratios and AI capital-raising activities -- global borrowing costs have been rising.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
The forward P/E ratios are the most recent closing prices divided by consensus 12-month earnings-per-share estimates among analysts polled by FactSet.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 11, 2026
By contrast, three countries with significantly smaller debt-to-GDP ratios than the U. S.—Germany, the United Kingdom and Canada—all saw smaller jumps in sovereign yields.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
How could nature be governed by ratios and proportions when something as simple as a square can confound the language of ratios?
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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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
“I just figured because a lot of them were heavily ratioed, and had over 1,000 replies, that too many replies means it shuts down,” Graziano told Salon.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2019
Cillizza’s tweet was ratioed, meaning the number of replies significantly outweighs the retweets and likes.
From Fox News ● May 6, 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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