yardstick

A core purpose for accounting standards is so investors have a common yardstick to compare companies across completely different industries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

And where we’ve taken pictures of our children every December since 2009, something of a yardstick for their youth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

Ubisoft forecast Wednesday "net bookings", its preferred revenue yardstick, of 250 million euros for the first quarter of its 2026-27 financial year, well short of the 285.5 million expected among analysts quoted by Bloomberg.

From Barron's ● May 21, 2026

Vitinha has already been mentioned several times in this column because he happens to be the yardstick for the best midfielders on the continent.

From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026

I saw Mr. Alums walking back and forth whacking a yardstick in his hand.

From "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" by Christopher Paul Curtis

By the usual economic yardsticks — such as income, industry and technology — it looks fully developed, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the World Bank treat it that way.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026

But it occurred to me—while watching people waiting for gas at Costco—that the usual yardsticks don’t apply.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 1, 2026

Based on yardsticks such as the price/earnings ratio and enterprise value to free cash flow, the valuation isn’t egregious.

From Barron's ● Dec. 24, 2025

Since then, he has scored his and others’ predictions against those yardsticks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2024

I took new interest in the torpedo-fish with their crackling shocks; in the turtles that paced beside yardsticks; in the mice sliced end to end, that their gestation might be viewed.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson