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    1. It was a composite bat that I had owned for over a year


    2. For composite materials with discrete fibers modulus of elasticity (E) and flexural strength (R ) can be approximately calculated from following: fl


    3. Mortars are composite heterogeneous materials which differ from concrete only by absence of coarse aggregate and poured as a rule on the basis with thin layer


    4. logging of these trees, many decks are now constructed with treated lumber, or composite


    5. What is generally referred to as National Sentiment is a composite of all the essential features (or values) embodied in a society‘s political and social institutions reflecting the consonant viewpoints embraced by every member of that society as well as its single-minded regard for its traditional customs and practices


    6. The phenomenon of public opinion, or its volatility, I should say, is rooted, in part, in the (composite) uncertainties of a society‘s moral, spiritual and intellectual positions that are often unclear, if not incomprehensible to individuals who have never been properly instructed to learn or to think critically about what they have learned or make proper sense out of what they have learned; whose


    7. An individual represents the sum total of his or her composite beliefs


    8. What is required is a clearer understanding of the composite designs that condition certain individuals or groups of individuals to behave in one manner or another


    9. Such methods constitute a composite measure of native aptitude in conjunction with learned behavior


    10. He increased power through the suit controls, because the composite nature of the ship meant that there was very little ferrous material in it

    11. and find now that life is composite


    12. And it is a most important quantity for, they excitedly exclaim, it might be the “Grand Unifier” that would be able to bring together into a composite whole all of the separate forces that Man’s science has discovered


    13. glass and its composite materials have


    14. Therefore, a composite model of NDE traits is presented herein of example traits I


    15. Some components of the composite NDE model have obvious similarities to some of the


    16. Days in working capital is the composite number of your dollars in working capital and provides


    17. another soul? An animal? A village? And I see them all below me, a composite of the creations


    18. in which my dad was the spitting image of the composite of the


    19. Inspector Carillo asked me to talk to a cartographer so they could have a composite image of the stranger


    20. Folded in his blouse pocket was a sheet of commercial black-and-white composite photographs of Charmaine in various poses

    21. On drawing nearer to it, Moshe realized that it was a composite object, having been made up


    22. Notching an arrow to the composite cavalry bow, Barrad’s horse slowly ambled towards the tree, the music grew louder and its tempo more excited


    23. This is also true of the universe which is a composite of attributes and its contrary attributes (Yin and Yang) — which is the same as saying that the universe is in a superposition of Yin and Yang — but it is never zero from our usual frame of reference


    24. this chord (or the composite frequency) of the individual is constantly being


    25. to evolutionary forces It is the composite information from dna and the


    26. Reading and writing is one composite aspect of social interaction while watching, listening and interacting takes the social dynamic to the next level


    27. The drawing was a composite of the total excavation site, the structure in front of us with the fire pit in the middle, other structures that were being uncovered, and those we might uncover later


    28. There’s a new smectic B phase liquid crystal derived polymer that’s like a composite on the molecular level, a single phase composite


    29. The plastic is a casing for a super-tough ceramic composite material


    30. The Lieutenant produced the composite image he had generated with the help of the

    31. Theirs was a composite concept of God, consisting in a blending of their older Mesopotamian ideas and the Most High doctrine


    32. The more or less composite and compromising transition stage between the materialistic concepts of the kingdom held by the Master's followers and those more idealistic and spiritual concepts taught by Jesus, had now definitely ended


    33. The composite and confused concepts which the founders and promulgators of Christianity have sought to impress upon the world


    34. The answer was a composite of all methods, along with some additional insight that resided within himself


    35. The walls of the corridor are made of flat panels of a metal/carbon composite; and have no doorways


    36. No doubt, a composite of me would be given to police officers and copies would be downloaded into the system


    37. The composite wasn"t very well done


    38. That"d result in the production of a better composite


    39. composite or a picture of me with the real McCoy (that’s me)


    40. They’ve got the paw print and a general composite; the one

    41. There was a fuzzy composite of a kitty


    42. leave this city immediately! The RCMP composite sketch of you is


    43. The composite of me was almost identical to


    44. “Bassam, the MPD have a clear composite of two men known


    45. The armor parts were made of a kind of molded composite material that seemed extremely tough, yet was lightweight


    46. Anatta (Sanskrit anatman) or “non-self” is used in the suttas both as a noun and as a predicative adjective to denote that phenomena are not, or are without, a permanent self, to describe any and all composite, con-substantial, phenomenal and temporal things, from the macrocosmic to


    47. Although the composite wasn’t an


    48. It will rest against the inner surface of your lower dorsal spine and will be held in place by composite pins and brackets


    49. The comedian has more intelligence in his little toe than the composite total smarts at some of the business meetings that I stayed away from


    50. they had a composite sketch of me














































    1. We believe we have the right to know, because we, our selfhood, depends upon our evolving dependence upon avatarism: a self vicariously composited from allegiances to personisms collaboratively constructed by fan based expectation, e


    2. Dynamic rebalancing (composited back-testing) is superior to single-month analysis because it captures the entire profile of a factor rather than a single data point


    3. 3, which we created in early 2009 as we began to explore the benefits of composited back-testing


    4. Using a composited back-test, you can get a much better sense of the true base rate of the underlying factor


    5. We also find that, in general, base rates improve when you look at the monthly composited results


    6. This is so because the December series now accounts for only 1/12 of the composited portfolio


    7. As with all of our tests, we look at the composited returns for an investment in deciles 1 and 10 from both the All Stocks and Large Stocks universe


    8. The unseating of PSR as the top value factor can be attributed to two things: (1) By analyzing the price-to-sales ratio’s composited decile data, as opposed to simply reviewing the 50 lowest price-to-sales ratios stocks on a single December rebalance cycle, we broaden the scope of analysis


    9. Granted, we faced market conditions more similar to the crash of 1929–1932 than we had ever seen previously, but the ability of a single factor like PSR—especially concentrated into the 50 names with the lowest ratios—to be so affected by six years led me to conclude that we must work toward a more broadly inclusive composited value factor that is less subject to violent changes over a few short years


    10. When we look at the composited results for our All Stocks and Large Stocks universes over the entire 1927–2009 period, we also find that buying stocks with low price-to-book value ratios works, but we find that there are long subperiods where low price-to-book value ratios, especially the lowest 10 percent, do not work well at all

    11. The composited portfolios for All Stocks by price-to-book value ratios start on December 31, 1926, and run through December 31, 2009, a full 83 years of data


    12. As always, we use our composited portfolio methodology to avoid any seasonality and time-lag all data to avoid look-ahead bias


    13. As always, we use our composited portfolios to review the deciles of stocks from All Stocks and Large Stocks with the highest and lowest shareholder yields


    14. 9 shows the results from an investment made in each composited portfolio by decile, with decile 1 made up of the 10 percent of stocks from All Stocks with the highest assets-to-equity ratios and decile 10 composed of the 10 percent of stocks from All Stocks with the lowest asset-to-equity ratios


    15. We see later that combining this factor with others in a composited portfolio can be helpful, but it’s not much use on its own


    16. Let’s call this composited group of accounting variables the Earnings Quality Composite


    17. We scale the composited Value Factor Two exactly as we did Value Factor One, but now we also include shareholder yield


    18. What if you are interested only in stocks that have the best value characteristics, but you are indifferent as to whether they pay a dividend yield? In this case, you could add just buy-back yield to the equation and create a new composited value factor that we will call Value Factor Three


    19. For example, EBITDA/EV—the best single factor for the composited 1963–2009 period—beats Value Factor One in only 45 percent of all rolling one-year periods and in 46 percent of all rolling five-year periods


    20. The only time it makes sense to favor a single factor over the composited value factors is when it is a key element of a multifactor strategy

    21. Stocks that score well on the various composited value factors as well as those with the best EBITDA/EV, the highest buyback and shareholder yield, the lowest PE ratios and price-to-sales and price-to-cash flow ratios all have excellent long-term base rates


    22. On the other hand, stocks with the worst scores on the composited value factors, as well as those with high PE ratios and price-to-sales ratios and low shareholder and buyback yield all have horrible base rates and usually only do well in unsustainable market bubbles


    23. As usual, we start with $10,000 and rebalance the composited portfolio annually


    24. The composited portfolio is rebalanced annually


    25. As with all our tests, all the portfolios are composited so that every month is represented, and even though we are basing this on six-month price appreciation, we use an annual holding period for the portfolios


    26. We begin with the All Stocks universe and generate the returns for each sector by using the same composited methodology used elsewhere in this book, and all stocks within the sector are equal-weighted


    27. As we will see as we proceed with all 10 sectors, our composited value factors are generally at or near the top of the performance tables


    28. It has the highest average annual compound return of all 10 economic sectors, which can be considerably improved upon by your concentrating on the stocks within the sector with the highest shareholder yield, dividend yield, or the best scores from any of our composited value factors


    29. Investors should shun any energy company that falls in the bottom quintile of any of the composited value factors—these stocks do very poorly and almost never beat the overall sector


    30. Oh, how the mighty have fallen! Yet investors can still earn good returns from the sector by focusing on the composited value factors, PE ratios, and buyback yield

    31. The only redeeming quality of financial stocks in the composited value factors’ worst quintile was that their maximum declines were more subdued than what we see with other sectors—in this case, a maximum decline of a more modest 61 percent


    32. Rounding out the top five were all three composited value factors and price to free cash flow


    33. Investors in the health-care sector should concentrate on those stocks with the lowest price to cash flow or the highest scores on the composited value factors


    34. As with the other sectors, health-care investors should shun stocks that fall into the bottom quintile of any of the composited value factors, as they rarely beat the sector’s return


    35. 16, the composited value factors are the top three performers, followed by enterprise value to EBITDA and shareholder yield


    36. The composited Value Factor Two served up the best returns, earning an average annual compound return of 15


    37. Investors focusing on the industrial sector should buy those industrial stocks with the highest scores on composited Value Factor Two, which includes shareholder yield


    38. Conversely, investors should shun those industrial stocks that fall into the bottom quintile of composited Value Factor Two


    39. Composited Value Factors Two and Three provided slightly lower absolute returns but lower maximum declines and identical Sharpe ratios


    40. Investors in technology stocks are best served by looking at enterprise value to sales, price-to-sales, and the composited value factors

    41. 22 shows, the best returns from the materials sector come from the stocks that score highest on composited Value Factor Three


    42. As we have seen with the other sectors, investors should avoid those materials stocks that fall into the worst quintile for any of the composited value factors, EV/EBITDA, and shareholder yield


    43. As usual, we find all three of the composited value factors in the top five best-performing strategies, with Value Factor One leading the way


    44. Rounding out the top five performers were composited Value Factors Two and Three, as well as buying the telecom stocks with the lowest price-to-cash flows and PE ratios


    45. The telecom sector offers disciplined investors an excellent return if they are willing to stick with those stocks with the best overall scores on the various composited value factors


    46. Telecom stocks that are the priciest ranked by any of the composited value factors, price-to-cash flow, or PE ratios should be avoided like the plague


    47. 25 percent over the 42 years of our study, investors could have done better by simply focusing on those utility stocks with the highest scores on any of the three composited value factors


    48. Yet investors can boost their returns from the sector by focusing on the composited value factors


    49. Buying the quintile of stocks with the highest scores on composited Value Factor Two generated average annual compound returns of 16


    50. One of the composited value factors, either one, two, or three, has been the best single strategy in six of the ten economic sectors and among the top five in every sector














    1. Composites of mortars are selected by tables or calculation and specified by experimental way in the context of specific materials


    2. leader in the manufacture of composites


    3. composites, drawn from different women 1 have treated; nothing is in-


    4. We have composites posted on every telephone poll in the city


    5. Composites are often off by miles


    6. Bassam, I’ve posted copies of the composites on the wall


    7. MPD into claiming that the two men in those composites were


    8. The composites of both fugitives would be posted


    9. Their bow shields also have a minimum thickness of eighty centimeters of ceramic-carbon composites


    10. The loads of scrap dumped most often comprised various types of synthetic material and pressed composites, occasionally a bit of battered and rusty sheet metal or scraps of fabric

    11. Over the next ten years, synthetics such as fiberglass and carbon-fiber composites began to replace wood as the primary material from which competitive racing shells were manufactured, and the Pocock company, under Stan’s guidance, slowly made the transition


    12. (Aside: The large gaps between arithmetic and geometric means are due to high volatility, but diversified composites have lower volatility and thus narrower gaps


    13. Other studies use numerous liquidity proxies or their composites and typically find positive premia for illiquidity and liquidity risk


    14. 1 highlights the opposite directional risks of broad carry and trend composites, two of our simulated strategy portfolios [2]


    15. As we saw with the other Value Factor Composites, all base rates are negative, with both the bottom 25 and 50 almost never beating the All Stocks universe in rolling ten-year periods


    16. Even strategies that have performed brilliantly over the long-term have suffered severe drops in price—for example, all of the value composites dropped by more than 57 percent from peak to trough during the bear market of 2007–2009


    17. From the Small Stocks universe, the best five strategies are buying the highest deciles of Value Composites One, Two, and Three, buying the decile of stocks with the highest EBITDA/EV, and finally the multifactor model that selects Small Stocks with price-to-book ratios in the lowest 30 percent that also have three- and six-month price appreciation higher than the median, and then buys the 25 stocks with the highest shareholder yield


    18. However, as we learned in Chapter Fifteen, even though the base rates are highest for this single value factor, you’re probably better off with the multifactor value composites


    19. The worst three strategies, buying stocks from Small Stocks with the worst scores on Value Composites One, Two, and Three all lost money over the 44 years, draining a $10,000 investment to $7,012, $6,623 and $5,468, respectively


    20. The Small Stocks in decile 10 of Value Composites One, Two, and Three also have terrifying worst-case scenarios

    21. All three of the value composites also had excellent base rates compared to the Small Stocks universe


    22. The value composites proved to be excellent measures of the health of small-cap stocks, with those in decile 1 doing very well over the long term and those in decile 10 getting crushed


    23. Both Value Composites Two and Three also perform well, as does buying the stocks from the sector with the best six-month price appreciation


    24. If you are interested in investing in the consumer discretionary sector, your best bet is to concentrate on enterprise value to free cash flow, price to cash flow, the Value Composites Two or Three, or six-month price appreciation


    25. 19 shows, technology stocks with the lowest enterprise value to sales and price-to-sales did the best, followed by enterprise value to free cash flow and Value Composites Two and Three


    26. • The stock must be in the upper 50 percent of the Financial Strength, Earnings Quality and Value Composites (Value Composite Two for this test)


    27. In earlier editions of this book the price-to-sales ratio was the value filter, but since our research revealed the significant improvements that the composited value factors offer to both overall returns and volatility, we now use these composites in place of the price-to-sales ratio


    28. • Must be in the upper 50 percent of the combined composites of financial strength, earnings quality, and Value Composite Two


    29. Before we look at what happens when you combine these two factors, let’s review how we create the value composites


    30. In this chapter, we use Value Composite Two, since it had the highest Sharpe ratio of the three value factor composites that we tested

    31. It’s a rogue’s gallery of all the usual suspects—stocks that are the most expensive on all three of our value composites; those with the worst profit margins, the worst ROA and NOA; those with the highest sales-to-enterprise value and worst price-to-sales; and those that fall into the worst decile for price momentum


    32. And unless you are buying them at the end of a severe bear market, trying to bottom-fish stocks from the worst decile of six- or twelve-month price appreciation is also a loser’s game, as is putting up with stocks that score poorly on our Financial Strength and Earnings Quality Composites


    33. The five worst-performing strategies, as ranked by their Sharpe ratios, all come from the Small Stocks universe and have the worst scores on price-to-sales, profit margins, and our three value composites


    34. The bottom 39 strategies all had negative Sharpe ratios, and the list is populated with the usual suspects—those with the worst scores on our value composites; the worst profit margins; the worst price appreciation; and the worst scores on our Earnings Quality and Financial Strength Composites


    35. Surprise! All of the worst-performing strategies by maximum decline also wind up at the bottom of the barrel here: 18 strategies had maximum declines exceeding 90 percent! They are, yet again, the usual suspects—stocks with the worst scores on the value composites, the worst EBITDA-to-enterprise value, the worst price-to-sales ratios, and the worst margins


    1. To address these two issues, and thereby gain an even stronger understanding of our factors and strategies, we are now compositing all of our results


    2. With the exception of the Market Leaders universe, in all cases I start with a $10,000 investment on December 31, 1926, and rebalance the portfolio annually using the compositing methodology discussed in Chapter Four


    3. With our new compositing methodology, we see that this is no longer the case


    4. Yet now, using the much larger databases that include monthly data and our more sophisticated compositing methodology, I have found that EBITDA/EV has unseated the price-to-sales ratio (PSR) as the single best-performing factor


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    Synonyms for "composite"

    complex composite composite plant composition synthesis compound mixture aggregate consolidated combined

    "composite" definitions

    a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts


    considered the most highly evolved dicotyledonous plants, characterized by florets arranged in dense heads that resemble single flowers


    consisting of separate interconnected parts


    of or relating to or belonging to the plant family Compositae