constituent
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DHS was and is less than the sum of its constituent parts.
From Salon • Feb. 28, 2026
These are comparisons of forward price/earnings ratios for the indexes, which are constituent companies’ prices divided by rolling consensus 12-month earnings-per-share estimates among analysts polled by LSEG, weighted by market capitalization.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 28, 2026
Niccol himself is keeping in touch with another key constituent: Howard Schultz.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 2026
One of Brown’s financial innovations, today called DuPont analysis, involves breaking ROE down into its constituent factors to tell why it is high or low.
From Barron's • Dec. 26, 2025
The engineers approached Project Mercury the way engineers tackled any problem: they broke Project Mercury down into its constituent parts.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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