ratio
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The median U.S. home price now hovers around five times the median income; historically, that ratio has been closer to 3 to 1.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
So higher earnings have offset the decline in the P/E ratio.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
The total payout ratio for the next years is expected at 75% of underlying EPS.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
It converted 92% of the methane, while CO and H2 selectivities reached 87.0%, with the H2/CO molar ratio remaining stable at about 2.0.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026
Certain chores on the Ranch—like figuring out gardening-supplement-to-soil ratio and the animal-feed amounts—require math to do them right.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
They trade for relatively low price ratios, and so more of their fundamental value comes from current earnings.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
Educators call this “differentiation,” and it’s nearly impossible to do well without technology unless you spend enormous sums of money to get student-tutor ratios down to the single digits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
On two observation dates, researchers measured methanol-to-HCN ratios of roughly 70 and 120.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026
The cost of avoiding those questions can be an annual account fee, a commission on every trade and a menu of funds with higher expense ratios than the ones already sitting in your core lineup.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
A harmonic series can start on any note, so there are many harmonic series, but every harmonic series has the same set of intervals and the same frequency ratios.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
Vance has been repeatedly ratioed on X ever since, a small but telling sign that the usual outrage machine is misfiring.
From Salon ● Jan. 14, 2026
They also see in Ellis a persona who can laugh off getting ratioed amid a watch-your-step social media culture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2021
Cillizza’s tweet was ratioed, meaning the number of replies significantly outweighs the retweets and likes.
From Fox News ● May 6, 2019
Unfortunately for Schultz, people have been interested primarily in roasting him — and as HuffPo’s Ashley Feinberg noted, he may be the first Twitter user to be ratioed in every single one of his tweets.
From The Verge ● Jan. 30, 2019
On Monday morning, the hosts of BuzzFeed’s talk show AM to DM took up the cause on their broadcast, drawing a response from Peretti on Twitter—which promptly got ratioed.
From Slate ● Jan. 29, 2019
Candy preference ratioing gets fierce during Spooky Season.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2022
Never has so much ratioing left the internet all at once.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 22, 2017
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