Stock buybacks have become all the rage, and many companies routinely return capital to investors by repurchasing their shares. Yet not all companies do a good job of timing their stock repurchases.

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Grouped frequency tables are a way of showing data in groups. Set up a new column to write the midpoint of each class. Set up another column to multiply each midpoint by its frequency. Find the sum of ...

If you track your daily earnings using an Excel spreadsheet, you can use the same spreadsheet to estimate your projected earnings over any time period. Using Excel's "AVERAGE" function, you can ...

Average product measures your productivity with a particular number of workers. To calculate the average product, you need the total product. For example, the total product for a factory might be the ...

Weighted average is a powerful tool for an investor. It can be used to evaluate the performance of a portfolio. It can help us better understand how the broader market moves. Even more important, it ...

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