average
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Look, I totally respect your average true believer.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026
Shares trade at roughly 21.5 times next-12-month earnings, below both its recent five-year average and prepandemic valuation levels.
From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026
The drug – mirvetuximab – extends lives too, from 12.8 months on chemotherapy to 16.5 months on the therapy, on average.
From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026
The chart below shows how the S&P 500 historically has performed after weekly winning streaks of nine weeks or more — with the index on average seeing gains one, three and six months later.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 3, 2026
There was more than one way to arrive at that average number.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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