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“ST’s results are improving cyclically, but not yet firing on all cylinders,” the analysts say.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026

The odds of the market rising in a given year are also unrelated to where the price-to-earnings or cyclically adjusted P/E ratios stand at the beginning of that year.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 10, 2025

Some metrics point to a prolonged fall—economist Robert Shiller’s version of the cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings ratio recently breached 40 for the first time since 1999.

From Barron's • Nov. 5, 2025

Since their introduction, these particles greatly improve the stiffness of rubbers but not their resistance to crack growth when the material is cyclically stretched, a measurement known as the fatigue threshold.

From Science Daily • Dec. 15, 2023

Somehow it transforms electric fields cyclically into magnetic fields and back again.

From The Ultimate Weapon by McConnell, Gerald