Sentence examples for yardstick pricing from inspiring English sources

Roosevelt had hoped to create other projects like the T.V.A., to establish yardstick pricing power on a national scale, but it proved to be a heavier logistical and political lift than he expected.

To measure how these stocks are valued, we use three yardsticks: price relative to book value, earnings and sales.

By that yardstick house prices seem low in only a handful of countries in our survey, as the final column in the table shows.

Mr Wallison reckons rents are a good yardstick: house prices that rise in line with rents make sense, since both are a sign of high demand.

One yardstick is price: "L'Enfance du Christ," by the Argentine artist Guillermo Kuitca, sold at Christie's Latin American auction in 1994 for $16,100 and sold again at Christie's in June for $244,500.

They found that securities analysts, relying on rigid yardsticks like price-to-earnings ratios, chronically underestimated the prospects of a young, unknown company.

These losses make it impossible to compare Twitter's IPO with others using the traditional yardstick of a price-earnings ratio.Instead, analysts often look at another measure: the ratio of a firm's proposed market capitalisation at IPO to the past 12 months' sales.

Housing may seem like a commodity that has a somewhat objective value; for example, a buyer could rely on a yardstick like the asking price per square foot of an apartment, and compare it with the sale price per square foot of similar properties in the same neighborhood.

Hence the discriminatory yardstick yields the lowest prices for consumers.

Both the theoretical analysis as well as the economic experiment show that the discriminatory yardstick results in lower prices than the unweighted uniform yardstick.

In this paper we analyze the effect of the design of yardstick competition on consumer prices, by means of a theoretical analysis as well as an economic experiment.