yardstick

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Distributed to paid-in capital, or DPI, measures actual cash returned to fund investors and has become a yardstick for comparing the performance of asset managers.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

Book value, or shareholder equity, has been a good yardstick for Berkshire stock during Buffett’s tenure.

From Barron's • Apr. 24, 2026

The result may not be the yardstick for England.

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026

A barrel of Brent, the global oil yardstick, is now selling for about $66, and benchmark U.S. crude for around $61.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 2026

Using the same yardstick, we see that the diagonal gets...well, almost 34 segments, but it doesn’t come out quite evenly.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife