Patent ID: 7398240

Claim:
A method for assessing the performance of a company, comprising: receiving financial data about the company, wherein the financial data includes a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) value indicative of the GDP for a country; determining a current value and a future value which combined make up an enterprise value of the company; decomposing the future value into a plurality of future value components, wherein the plurality of future value components includes: (i) an economy component that defines an implied amount of growth of the company attributable to the growth of the economy in general, wherein the economy component is based on the Gross Domestic Product value, (ii) an operating advantage component, and (iii) a future value (FV) premium component comprising the difference between the future value of the company and a sum of the economy component and the operating advantage component; and displaying at least one of the future value components to advise a user of the performance of the company relative to the economy in general.