Base-Year Analysis

  

Categories: Metrics, Trading, Investing

When we want to see how our company is growing (or shrinking), we might compare how we did in a variety of areas (like gross revenue or sales or market share, etc.) to how we did in those same areas last year or five years ago or ten years ago. When we compare where we are now to where we were then, that's base-year analysis. The year we use for comparison is considered the base year.

Related or Semi-related Video

Finance: What is Hurdle Rate?62 Views

00:00

Finance allah shmoop shmoop what is ah hurdle rate Well

00:06

a hurdle rate refers to the investment return minimum that

00:10

an investment project requires for it to be worth taking

00:15

the risk and effort to do it in the first

00:17

place All right what does that really mean Well you're

00:20

the new ceo of baby's first chainsaw inc a project

00:23

manager present to you the opportunity to open a new

00:27

line of business called grand pas last chain saw going

00:31

into that business will cost you one hundred million box

00:33

of initial investment in large print labeling walker accessible attachments

00:38

jittery hand stabilizers and some extra denture cream You as

00:43

ceo are looking at eight other projects you can afford

00:47

to do on ly one and the best of the

00:50

eight other projects is a similar product called the unhinged

00:54

midlife crisis chainsaw which has been garnering a lot of

00:58

early interest That project has return rate of fourteen percent

01:02

so the project manager presenting grandpas last chainsaw now has

01:06

a hurdle rate that must be above the highest last

01:10

hurdle or fourteen percent fourteen percent annualized return got it

01:14

and that's as presented by the project manager pitching investment

01:18

in the mid life crisis model meaning they think it'll

01:21

return fourteen percent a year on the investment Got it

01:24

Whichever of those eight competitive project managers presents the most

01:28

believable projections for sales and profits that exceed the others

01:32

well they'll soon become king of the family chainsaw market

01:36

And the ones who don't well let's just say they 00:01:38.855 --> [endTime] use a few extra bodies over in product development

Up Next

Finance: What are Weighted Averages and Expected Values?
13 Views

What are Weighted Averages and Expected Values? Weighted averages are averages calculated to account for the number of changes that a variable, suc...

Finance: What is an Expected Return?
8 Views

Reading the tarot cards. Sifting the tea leaves. Asking the crystal ball. Trying to predict the future performance of an investment is something th...

Finance: What is Return on Sales (ROS)?
3 Views

Return on sales is an investment metric that reflects the profitability of a company.

Find other enlightening terms in Shmoop Finance Genius Bar(f)