That pushed the inventories-to-shipments ratio to a record low of 1.26 months in May.
Its earnings slid recently, for instance, sending its price-to-earnings ratio to a lofty 58.
Marshall attributed the low "fire ratio" to a mixture of poor training and a natural reluctance to kill.
Applying that ratio to a £3 beer suggests that staff costs equate to 73p of the cost of that pint, after correcting for VAT.
"Enron was transformed from a pretty boring energy company with modest growth, low price-earnings ratio, to a newfangled energy trading company".
That increase brought the inventory-to-sales ratio to a record low of 1.32, meaning it would take 1.32 months to exhaust inventories at the December sales pace.
The write-off for ribavirin has reduced shareholder equity, increasing ICN's debt-to-equity ratio to a potentially dangerous level, Mr. Melnitchenko said.
Saa3 flipped from a 2.57-fold positive ratio to a 4.45-fold negative ratio; Nr1d1 flipped from a 2.97-fold negative to a positive 1.66-fold ratio; Defb8 decreased from a 2.14-fold negative ratio to a 5.38-fold negative ratio comparing nonirradiated vs. UVB-irradiated mice.
Similarly the association for being Hispanic decreased from strong bivariate 0.28 odds ratio to a weak multivariate 0.75.
But instead, partly because ants can signal one another as to where food sources lie, the distribution fluctuated wildly, even swinging at times from an 80 20 ratio to a 20 80 one.
That dismal performance helped to lower the index's price-to-earnings ratio to a low of 6.8 by the end of that decade, according to data from Robert J. Shiller, the Yale finance professor.
