Indexes
Glossary
RBP®
The revenue growth necessary to support the current stock price. Required Business Performance® is used as a benchmark against which to measure management’s ability to perform in the future. It is calculated using a reverse discounted cash flow valuation model that uses the current stock price as the primary input.
RBP® Probability
The likelihood that management will deliver the Required Business Performance® to support the stock price. It is calculated by fitting the company’s historical revenue growth to a distribution, then finding the company’s Required Business Performance within this historical distribution.
In the hypothetical example below, the company’s RBP® Probability, represented by green, is 35% while its Behavioral Risk Indicator, represented by red, is 65%. RBP® Probability
Behavioral Risk Indicator
The likelihood that investors’ systematic behavioral biases have caused misalignment between the stock price and management’s ability to deliver. The Behavioral Risk Indicator is designed to capture the impact that human psychology has on the subjective valuation process used by investors. It is defined as one minus the RBP® Probability.
In the hypothetical example below, the company’s RBP® Probability, represented by green, is 35% while its Behavioral Risk Indicator, represented by red, is 65%. Behavioral Risk Indicator
RBP® Methodology
A system of fundamental stock analysis that uses a reverse discounted cash flow valuation model to determine what the stock’s current price implies in terms of future free cash flow and revenue (Required Business Performance® ) as well as the calculation of the likelihood that management can deliver the Required Business Performance®, known as RBP® Probability.
RBP® Platform
The Transparent Value decision support tool consisting of an interactive database containing the proprietary data produced by Transparent Value. Included are the Required Business Performance® (RBP® ) values, RBP® Probabilities and Behavioral Risk Indicators for more than 2,000 global stocks, the Transparent Value mutual fund rating system providing coverage of more than 3,000 funds, and also broad market indicators.
RBP® Snapshot
Provides updated company-specific RBP® information based on the company's most recent quarterly financial data. The RBP® Snapshot consists of the RBP® probability and RBP® values for a particular company.

Dow Jones RBP IndexesSM   


Fundamentally Analyzed, Quantitatively Selected

The Dow Jones RBP IndexesSM is the result of an exclusive partnership between Dow Jones IndexesSM and Transparent Value. Transparent Value calculates the Required Business Performance® (RBP® ) Probabilities used in the indexes’ construction and licenses them exclusively to Dow Jones IndexesSM for the construction of rules-based indexes

Transparent Value using fundamental analysis answers a simple question for every stock: Can management deliver the Required Business Performance® to support the stock price? Using the proprietary RBP® Methodology to determine the answer to this question, we calculate the likelihood management can deliver the Required Business Performance, known as the RBP® Probability, as well as the probability it will fail to deliver, known as the Behavioral Risk Indicator for every stock in our universe. Stocks are then selected for inclusion in the index only based on the relative RBP® probabilities.

Thus, Transparent Value combines the best characteristics of both passive and active investing into a single index product that aims to provide transparency and consistent performance.

Transparent Value also offers investment strategies that utilize the Dow Jones RBP Indexes and are tailored to suit client needs. These strategies may be based on any of a wide variety of existing Dow Jones RBP IndexesSM or, under certain circumstances new or customized indexes may be created with the aim of meeting clients’ requirements.

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