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Earnings Per Share: a financial ratio that measures the portion of a company's profit allocated to each outstanding share of common stock. It is the most basic measure of the value of a...; Earnings Per Share definition on BNET »

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Merrill: Losing the Expectations Game: Dennis Berman looks today at Merrill Lynch's earnings per share. With earnings down and the number of shares up, he concludes, reasonably enough, that, in the words of Sanford Bernstein's Brad Hintz, "it's extremely difficult to get to the earnings-per-share number of 2004 anytime soon". Er, yes....; Tags: Financial Accounting, Berman, Earnings Per Share, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., Bank, Game, Financial Services, Finance, Felix Salmon; Articles 2008-08-05
Assessing Price-Earnings Ratio: The price/earnings ratio (P/E) reveals the relationship between the price of a stock and the income it generates.P/E is one way of looking at the value of a stock. In theory, the faster investors expect a company to grow, the higher its P/E is likely to be. This is because...; Tags: analyst, BNET Editorial, Earnings Per Share, Finance, financial, Financial Accounting, income, Investment, investor, P/E, Ratio, Stock, stock price, theory; Articles 2007-10-15
Calculating Dividend Cover: Dividend cover measures a company's ability to pay dividends to stockholders. Specifically, it calculates how many times over the company's net after-tax profits could have paid for dividends to its common stockholders.A similar calculation, payout ratio identifies the percentage of net profit paid to stockholders in the form of dividends,...; Tags: allocation, BNET Editorial, dividend, earnings per share, Financial accounting, Financial Planning, investor, net profit, shareholder, stockholder, tax; Articles 2007-07-30
Coaching: Worthmore's executive coaches sustain the changes in people and processes that our consultants create with our clients. Without coaching people revert to old habits and change is short lived. With sustained change a company wastes less money and time, maintains its focus and is more likely to achieve its earnings...; Tags: Earnings Per Share, C.B.Global Services, Worthmore, Financial Accounting, Finance; White papers 2003-01-01
Financial Reporting: Simplifying EPS: Many CPAs and financial statement users believed Accounting Principles Board Opinion, Earnings per Share, was arbitrary and unnecessarily complex. A major concern was the concept of common stock equivalents in computing primary earnings per share EPS. The number of common shares outstanding is adjusted retroactively for stock dividends; stock splits,...; Tags: Financial Reporting, Financial, Stock, Earnings Per Share, Financial Accounting, Financial Statements, Investment, Financial Planning, Finance; White papers 2002-09-25

Dilutive Securities And Earnings per Share: The share of a company, when sold in the capital market, returns some earning for the shareholder. Dilutive securities are the securities that have the effect of reducing earnings per share. They include convertible debt and convertible bonds. The paper describes the accounting process for the issuance, conversion, and retirement...; Tags: Security, Earnings Per Share, John Wiley & Sons Inc., Financial Accounting, Finance; Presentations 2003-01-01
Stock Valuation and Investment Strategies: This article studies the relative investment performance of several stock-valuation measures. The first is mispricing based on the valuation model developed by Bakshe and Chen (1998) and extended by Dong (1998) (hereafter, the BCD model). The BCD model relates, in closed form, a stock's fair value to the firm's net...; Tags: Investment Strategy, Stock, Earnings Per Share, York University, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance; White papers 2001-06-30
Merger Valuation: Time to Jettison EPS: Under new accounting rules, few if any acquisitions appear to dilute earnings per share - but this doesn't mean that acquisitions are any more likely to create value. Even those that appear to increase a company's earnings per share can actually destroy it. In view of the changed accounting rules,...; Tags: Accounting, Acquisition, McKinsey & Co., Merger, Earnings Per Share, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Financial Accounting, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Investment, Finance, Business Operations; White papers
Honeywell International Inc. Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript: Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from John Inch - Merrill Lynch. John Inch - Merrill Lynch All in based on the trajectory of that you are seeing with these puts and takes how are you feeling about being able to hold earnings per share kind of...; Tags: Call Transcript, Earnings, Earnings Per Share, Finance, Financial Accounting, Honeywell International Inc., Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., Milestone, Operational Accounting, Seeking Alpha; Earnings calls 2008-10-17
Plantronics, Inc. F2Q09 Earnings Call Transcript: Earnings Call Excerpt Plantronics, Inc. PLT F2Q09 Earnings Call October 22, 2008 2:00 pm ET Executives Greg Klaben - Vice President of Investor Relations Ken Kannappan - Director, President and Chief Executive Officer Barbara Scherer - Senior Vice President, Finance & Administration and CFO Analysts John Bright...; Tags: Risk, Plantronics, Earnings Per Share, Call Transcript, non-GAAP, Earnings, GAAP, Financial Accounting, Finance, Seeking Alpha; Earnings calls 2008-10-27
SYSCO Corporation F1Q09 (Qtr End 09/27/08) Earnings Call Transcript: Earnings Call Excerpt SYSCO Corporation SYY F1Q09 Earnings Call November 3, 2008 8:30 am ET Executives Neal Russell – Vice President, Investor Relations Richard Schnieders – Chief Executive Officer Ken Spitler – President and Chief Operating Officer Bill DeLaney – Executive Vice President and Chief Financial...; Tags: Sysco Corp., Earnings Per Share, Call Transcript, Earnings, Richard Schnieders Here, Financial Accounting, Finance, Seeking Alpha; Earnings calls 2008-11-03
W.W. Grainger, Inc. Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript: Earnings Call ExcerptW.W. Grainger, Inc. GWW Q4 2008 Earnings Call January 26, 2009 8:00 am ET Executives Laura D. Brown - Vice President, Investor Relations William D. Chapman - Director, Investor Relations Presentation Laura Brown Hello, this is Laura Brown, Vice President of Investor Relations. Joining me...; Tags: Operating Margin, Earnings Per Share, Call Transcript, Earnings, Investor Relations, Financial Accounting, Sales Strategy, Finance, Sales, Seeking Alpha, W. W. Grainger Inc.; Earnings calls 2009-01-26
Rocky Brands Inc. Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript: Earnings Call ExcerptRocky Brands Inc. RCKY Q4 2008 Earnings Call February 19, 2009 4:30 pm ET Executives Brendon Frey - IR, ICR, Inc. Mike Brooks - Chairman and CEO David Sharp - President and COO Jim McDonald - CFO and Treasurer Analysts Kevin Kim - Robert W. Baird &...; Tags: Earnings Per Share, Call Transcript, Earnings, Rocky Brands Inc., Financial Accounting, Finance, Seeking Alpha; Earnings calls 2009-02-19
McKesson Corporation F4Q09 (Qtr End 3/31/09) Earnings Call Transcript: Earnings Call ExcerptMcKesson Corporation MCK F4Q09 Earnings Call May 4, 2009 5:00 pm ET Executives Ana Schrank - Vice President of Investor Relations John H. Hammergren - President and Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey C. Campbell - Chief Financial Officer Analysts Lawrence Marsh - Barclays Capital Lisa Gill - J.P....; Tags: Forward-looking Statement, McKesson Corp., Earnings Per Share, Call Transcript, Earnings, Financial Accounting, Finance, Seeking Alpha; Earnings calls 2009-05-04
W.W. Grainger, Inc. Q2 2009 (Qtr End 06/30/09) Earnings Call Transcript: Earnings Call ExcerptW.W. Grainger, Inc. GWW Q2 2009 Earnings Call July 15, 2009 8:30 am ET Executives Laura Brown – VP IR William Chapman – Director IR Presentation Laura Brown Hello, this is Laura Brown, Vice President of Investor Relations along with William Chapman, Director of...; Tags: Earnings Per Share, Call Transcript, W.W. Grainger Inc., Earnings, Investor Relations, Financial Accounting, Finance, Seeking Alpha, W. W. Grainger Inc.; Earnings calls 2009-07-15
Automatic Data Processing, Inc. F4Q09 (Qtr End 6/30/09) Earnings Call Transcript: Question-and-Answer Session Operator Thank you. Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Steve Fordham - UBS. Steve Fordham - UBS Looking beyond the current recession, what do you guys think is a reasonable medium term top and bottom line growth rate that investors [inaudible] ADP? Gary Butler We...; Tags: Revenue, Earnings Per Share, Call Transcript, Earnings, Automatic Data Processing Inc., UBS AG, Financial Accounting, Finance, Seeking Alpha; Earnings calls 2009-07-30
Valassis CEO Got Big Raise Despite Company's Losses: Valassis CEO Alan Schultz had an awful 2008: Sure, revenues went up 6.2 percent but the company lost $207 million overall, NYSE threatened to delist the company (it's trading just above the penny-stock range), and the high-stakes litigation against rival News America Marketing Group has decimated the company's profits. He...; Tags: Compensation, Stock, Earnings Per Share, CEO, Valassis, News America, Benefits, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Finance, Jim Edwards; Blog posts 2009-03-18
Multi-Year Tech Earnings Growth: Google, IBM, Apple Strong: I've been looking at a new online tool called StockSmart. The full version is being launched in June, and it will provide some pretty interesting realtime analysis that would normally require a lot of hunting through documents. For example, I took a look at earnings per share growth over the...; Tags: Google Inc., Earnings Per Share, Apple Inc., IBM Corp., Financial Accounting, Finance, Erik Sherman; Blog posts 2009-05-05
Citigroup Strategist: Market Has Already Bottomed: FP Trading Desk submits: North American stock markets have likely bottomed after having overshot the average bear market downturn, providing investors with a good bargain hunting opportunity, Tobias Levkovich , the chief U.S. equities strategist at Citigroup says. “When considering valuation, we would submit that equity markets look very...; Tags: Earnings Per Share, Strategist, Equity, Citigroup Inc., Seeking Alpha, FP Trading Desk, Investment, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Finance, US Market; External links 2008-11-04
VSE Corporation Turns in a Great Quarter: Robert Blumenthal submits: VSE Corporation VSEC recently reported the results for its third quarter of 2008. Revenue grew 76%, net income grew 58%, and diluted earnings per share grew 58%. For the nine month period ending September 30, 2008, revenue grew 64%, net income grew 42%, and...; Tags: Revenue, Net Income, Earnings Per Share, Seeking Alpha, Robert Blumenthal, Financial Accounting, Finance, VSE Corp.; External links 2008-11-17