Word: outperform
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...that on average, management spends more to improve its business after it's been spun off than it did when it was part of a larger entity. They also found that spin-off companies have a better than average chance of being taken over. By their calculations, spin-offs outperform a peer group by 30 percentage points over three years, parent companies by 19 points...
Most colleges take a close look at standardized-test scores when weighing homeschool applications and find that homeschoolers outperform their school-educated peers. This year homeschoolers scored an average of 1,100 on the SAT--a full 81 points above the national average--and 22.8 on the ACT, compared with the national average...
...Some of us are committed to finding companies with superior technology," Shah writes in an e-mail message. "Others look to earnings and value, while still others turn to future growth prospects. The end result is that we find and invest in a diverse slate of companies that outperform the general market as a whole...
...market-cap champs, such as 1998's passing of the belt from General Electric to Microsoft, were useful indicators. Microsoft's emergence bespoke information technology as the driving force in our economy, supplanting consumer goods, aerospace and financial services as the sectors that investors most expected to outperform the rest of the market. The same point could have been made in 1993, when GE surpassed Exxon (consumer goods trumped oil), or a hundred years ago, when John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil was a monopolistic market bully and trust-busting wasn't even a slogan for Teddy Roosevelt...