Sentence examples for like a multiple of from inspiring English sources
One sign that we might be approaching another bubble: if companies start manufacturing new metrics to replace profits, like "a multiple of engineers," he said.
Becker said buying a software company should cost more like a multiple of five times revenue, which would imply a valuation closer to $4.3 billion based on the company's 2010 revenue.
While National trades at 18 times fiscal 2000 earnings (of 69 cents a share), a pure-play analog chipmaker like Linear Technology lltc carries a multiple of 36.
It has a Softbank-like crazy multiple of 174.
The question can be answered by selecting one or many of a series of choices (like a multiple choice question) or by providing a short answer.
Its unlikely to command a Yahoo-like multiple of six times revenue, according to Ken Marlin, managing partner of media and tech banker Marlin & Associates.
This is how it all starts, in the second person like a choose your own adventure book, although the opening prologue is more like a multiple choice quiz sketching the history of Henry's heartbreaking early adulthood.
Most investors at the trading simulation Web site aren't interested in the stock, but gurus like its multiple of 13.3 times earnings and a price-to-earnings growth (PEG) ratio of 0.6.
He liked doubles, multiples of himself and these proteges sartorially mirrored his stylistic changes: silk camisoles for Vanity 6, zoot suits for the Time.
This may be the result of a multiple factors, like diminished numbers of and expertise of staff available, reduced access to diagnostic tests and procedures, a lower degree of supervision of residents, long-duration shifts and tiredness of personnel, no in-house obstetricians, anaesthesiologists and paediatricians, delays in availability of necessary personnel in case of emergency.
Ball uses a Rashomon-like approach, with multiple interviews of different witnesses, some of whom contradict each other.
