The Leverage Factor by James Ardell - HTML preview
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9. - Operating Risk 219
Fixed Costs and Economics, 220
The Case of Compaq Computer, 223
The Nature of Costs and Margins, 224
Fixed Costs and the Breakeven point for Sales, 227
Compaq Computer: The Rest of the Story, 229
Operating Leverage and Prediction, 231
Characteristics of Operating Leverage, 232
Operating Trends and Reversals, 235
The Quality of an Operating Margin, 235
A Risky Proposition: Confidence Intervals, 237
Operating Beta, 240
The Unlevered Beta Equation, 241
The Ardco Barbell Company: An Example of Unlevered Beta, 241 “Mom and Pop Store” Betas: Companies Who are Not on the Market, 244 Operations Research for the Investor, 245
Two Masters: Fisher and Buffett, 247
A Brief Operating Analysis of Fed-Ex and Staples for the Year 2000, 249
Staples and Fed-Ex Operating Histories: 1994-1999
Analysis and Statistics
The Confidence Interval Tool
Operating Margin