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ratio

[ray-shoh, -shee-oh] / ˈreɪ ʃoʊ, -ʃiˌoʊ /


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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

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

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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