The idea behind is that if those indicators perform badly, the dimensional score cannot surpass a certain benchmark level.
If a company has just surpassed an important benchmark in the industry or in its own recent history, it's well positioned to tackle a stretch goal.
When it aired 33 years ago, "Cosmos" became the highest-rated series on PBS (a benchmark surpassed 10 years later by Ken Burns' "The Civil War").
The Russell 2000 index, a benchmark for small stocks, surpassed its record high of 855.77 reached in July 2007.
According to LCH, once the spread between, say, a Spanish or Italian government bond and a benchmark AAA bond index surpasses 4.5 percent, the issuer is liable for a trimming.
Attendance at National Collegiate Athletic Association football games this season surpassed 37 million for the first time, a benchmark buoyed by expansion of stadiums at Notre Dame, Tennessee and Michigan.
On a typical cold winter day, she said, the agency receives about 1,600 calls, a benchmark it seemed likely to surpass yesterday.
Will Mr Bush's $37m prove, like the four-minute mile, to be a benchmark that every contender will have to surpass?
The compelling story, huge environment and vast array of activities set a benchmark for the gangster adventure genre that took many years to surpass.
A 1% return on assets is a benchmark of superior banking performance, but only one major Valley bank surpassed that mark in 1986: Santa Clarita National Bank.
