Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• EARNINGS PER SHARE (EPS) - A company's profit divided by its number of common outstanding shares. If a ...
  
  
• EARNINGS PER SHARE DATE - Date of the last earnings announcement.
  
  
• EARNINGS REPORT - A financial statement, also called Income Statement, issued by a company showing its ...
  
  
• EARNINGS RESPONSE COEFFICIENT - A measure of relation of stock returns to earnings surprises around the...
  
  
• EARNINGS RETENTION - the proportion of net income that is not paid in dividends. A firm earning $80 mil...
  
  
• EARNINGS RETENTION RATE - The percent of current period earnings retained by the firm as opposed to bei...
  
  
• EARNINGS RETENTION RATIO - Plowback rate.
  
  
• EARNINGS SURPRISE - If a company's earnings are higher, or lower, than Wall Street financial analysts a...
  
  
• EARNINGS SURPRISES - Positive or negative differences from the consensus forecast of earnings by instit...
  
  
• EARNINGS YIELD - The ratio of earnings per share, after allowing for tax and interest payments on fixed...