Sandra Smith
Sandra Smith
Sandra Smith joined FOX Business Network as a reporter in October 2007.
Prior to joining FBN, Smith was an on-air reporter for Bloomberg Television. In this role, she covered U.S. equities and derivatives markets and contributed to breaking news and analysis.
Before Bloomberg, Smith was the Director of Institutional Sales and Trading at Terra Nova Institutional, where she handled investment management and hedge fund accounts. She also assisted in the development of program trading models for existing and prospective clients. Prior to this, she was a trader at Hermitage Capital, where she executed U.S. equities and options orders, conducted portfolio analysis, prepared commission reports and serviced clients.
A graduate of Louisiana State University, Smith began her career as a research associate at Aegis Capital. There, she assisted in the research and analysis of retail stocks, prepared weekly stock newsletters to clients and identified investment opportunities.
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The book-to-bill (B-to-B) ratio is the demand-to-supply ratio for orders on a firm's "book" to number of orders processed and billed. A simpler explanation is orders/orders filled (or billed).
If you just ordered a sweater from your favorite online store, your purchase gets tacked onto the "book" side of the book-to-bill
ratio. If you have the bill in your hands, then your transaction is now added the second "b" of the ratio.
If the company has more orders than it can deliver, the B-to-B ratio is greater than one. The higher this number is, the higher
the backlog of orders that need to be filled/delivered.
If everything is just right and supply is keeping pace equal to demand, the ratio is equal to one. And if it¿s less than one, then the company is hoping orders get a kickstart in order to get some of the dusty inventory off the shelves.
