yardstick
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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
Warsh has a preferred way to measure inflation that produces a result nearly a full percentage point lower than the Fed’s currently preferred yardstick.
From Barron's ● May 11, 2026
It produces a result that is nearly a full percentage point lower than the Fed’s currently preferred yardstick.
From Barron's ● May 11, 2026
You think they’re perfect, because they’re the yardstick by which you measure the rest of the world, and yourself.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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
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
It was one of the warning lights for technicians who watch such yardsticks for clues about the market’s direction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 19, 2025
Even if he did not have a famous writer for a father, Dubus would have plenty of yardsticks against which to measure his achievements, pains and pleasures.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2024
Even now the waiters were carrying away our yardsticks to make space for a ballroom floor.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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