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Table 2 Descriptive statistics of sugar-using publicly traded firms from Q1 2000 to Q4 2017

From: The impact of US sugar prices on the financial performance of US sugar-using firms

Variable

Obs

Mean

Std. Dev.

Min

Max

ROA

1513

13.62

7.90

− 3.50

43.39

MTB

1543

2.33

1.34

0.95

8.03

SGA

1535

24.66

8.54

10.02

43.21

ATO

1545

1.08

0.48

0.32

3.01

Size

1543

8.72

2.15

3.23

12.38

Growth

1527

5.21

10.69

− 19.19

53.80

FRisk

1541

0.13

0.11

0.00

0.48

UWpra

1562

2.00

0.69

1.14

3.90

UWpre

1562

2.04

0.45

1.19

3.22

UWprb

1562

1.92

0.42

1.14

2.89

  1. Notes: Variable definitions are shown in Table 1. Quarterly financial data was obtained from CRSP/COMPUSTAT from the first quarter of 2000 to the fourth quarter of 2017. Observations with negative common equity were removed from the sample. We winsorized the data at the 1% and 99% percentiles (Adams et al. 2019; Tukey 1962). Monthly sugar prices were obtained from the USDA sugar and sweeteners yearbook tables.