"The price is decent relative to secondary market prices and is voluntary – most people would be indifferent or happy," said a credit analyst at a major investment bank.
Its price-to-sales multiple, 2.5 times, looks decent relative to 3.5 for imaging concern Getty Images.
That multiple looks decent relative to the S&P 500, now valued at 18.1 projected profits, as well as the average forecast of 18.5% for Oshkosh's annual rate of earnings growth in the coming few years.
The jobs numbers for the past five months or so, taken as a whole, have been fairly decent, especially relative to where the figures had been throughout most of the last three years.
"High-quality companies that pay high dividends and have plenty of cash flow to support those dividends have decent yields relative to bonds and a lot of potential for those dividends to grow," he said.
And clever people who failed to anticipate the degree to which, once things got negative, they would "get super negative", now feel foolish and will take time to regain their confidence.Despite the fact that his foundation's assets have declined by over 20% in the past year actually a decent performance, relative to other institutional investors Mr Gates is remarkably optimistic.
Some families discovered that they had been paying bribes to insure decent treatment for relatives who had been killed long before.
Three games on Sunday this week - Philadelphia Union face Chicago Fire in what could be a decent measure of relative progress for both sides, after decent second quarters of the season.
"Ads started bringing in, in relative terms, a decent income for me relatively quickly," he said Soon after there was the first fund-raiser, to cover the cost of reporting on the New Hampshire primary of 2004.
"SBC had pretty decent top-line growth relative to my expectations," Mr. Ferrugia said.
