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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...
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Burger King Posts Higher-than-expected Profit
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Burger King Holdings Inc (BKC), the world's second-largest hamburger chain, posted a nearly 21 percent rise in quarterly profit on Thursday, boosted by higher sales at new and remodeled restaurants, value menus and extended hours. The Miami-based...
Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Burger King Corp., same-store sales, earnings per share, quarterly profit, sales, New York, Thomson Reuters Corp., net income, food, industry
News items 2008-05-01
Punch Profits Up But Sales Still Falling
LONDON (Reuters UK) - Pub company Punch Taverns (PUB) said on Thursday sales have got worse since a subdued Christmas as consumer confidence has worsened. However Punch, which operates over 8,500 pubs, said profits were slightly better-than-expected in the first half of its financial year...
Tags: Earnings Per Share, Punch Taverns, Sales Strategy, Financial Accounting, Sales, Finance, Chancellor, Hike
News items 2008-04-24
AstraZeneca Q1 Sales Fall Short as Nexium Tumbles
By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters UK) - AstraZeneca (AZN) nudged up its forecast for 2008 earnings on Thursday, but sales of ulcer pill Nexium and other key drugs in the first quarter were weaker than hoped for, knocking its shares. "The sales trends of most of...
Tags: AstraZeneca Plc., Stock, Analyst, Earnings Per Share, Earnings, Nexium, Sales, GlaxoSmithKline Plc.
News items 2008-04-24
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: Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, Financial accounting, McKinsey & Co., earnings per share, acquisition, accounting, merger
White papers
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: Financial accounting, BNET Editorial, earnings per share, stock, investor, investment, stock price, analyst, income, theory, financial, industry
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: Financial Planning, Financial accounting, BNET Editorial, dividend, earnings per share, net profit, investor, allocation, shareholder, tax, industry
Articles 2007-07-30
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: Financial accounting, Financial services, Investment, John Wiley & Sons Inc., earnings per share, capital market, security, bond, accounting, shareholder, stock
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: Financial accounting, Investment, York University, investment strategy, earnings per share, valuation, stock
White papers 2001-06-30

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Everything You Need to Know About Earnings
Earnings mean profit; it's the money a company makes. Often evaluated in terms of Earnings Per Share (EPS), this is the most important indicator of a company's financial health. Earnings reports are released four times a year and are followed very closely by Wall Street. In the end, growing earnings...
Tags: Financial accounting, Investopedia, earnings, earnings report, earnings per share, financial
White papers 2003-05-23
The World According to GAAP
As earnings season gets underway and investors start listening to calls and reading reports, understanding how companies report earnings is critical. Earnings per share. Basic EPS. Diluted EPS. Adjusted net income diluted. GAAP earnings. Non-GAAP earnings. Enough already. Although confusion can be part of the learning process in investing, it...
Tags: Financial accounting, Motley Fool, GAAP, earnings, non-GAAP, earnings per share, net income
White papers 2005-04-25
The Value of Share Buybacks
When companies buy back their own stock, they can usually expect the capital markets to reward them with an increase in their share price. But buybacks don't increase a company's intrinsic value. Any mechanical increase in earnings per share will likely be offset by a reduction in the company's price-to-earnings...
Tags: Investment, McKinsey & Co., buyback, capital market, earnings per share, stock
White papers
Constellation Energy Earnings Fall Short
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Power company Constellation Energy Group Inc (CEG) on Wednesday posted quarterly earnings that fell well short of Wall Street forecasts on weaker profits from its merchant power arm. First quarter net earnings fell to $145.7 million, or 81 ...
Tags: Financial accounting, Constellation Energy Group Inc., earnings, power company, Thomson Reuters Corp., New York, earnings per share
News items 2008-04-30
Earnings Management and Cross Listing: Are Reconciled Earnings Comparable to US Earnings?
This paper compares the characteristics of US GAAP earnings for US firms with reconciled earnings for non-US firms cross listing on US markets. It is found that the reconciled earnings for non-US firms differ systematically from US GAAP earnings for US firms, and are characterized by more evidence of smoothing,...
Tags: Financial accounting, University of North Carolina, earnings, environment
White papers 2005-01-01
Earnings Growth and Stock Returns
Many investors and financial commentators believe that high earnings growth rates and high rates of return are synonymous. This is false. What is true is that differences in earnings growth rates influence the breakdown of expected rates of return into their capital gain and dividend components. All else equal, a...
Tags: Financial accounting, Financial Planning, IndexFunds.com Inc., dividend, earnings, risk, financial, stock
White papers 2000-08-01
S Corporation ESOPs
Congress has now made it practical for Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs) to become owners of S Corporation stock. Combining ESOP tax advantages with the single-tax structure of an S Corporation should produce interesting planning opportunities for a number of closely held businesses. Either the value of the ESOP's stock...
Tags: Stock options, Regulations, Investment, Financial accounting, ESOP, earnings, stock, tax, stock option
White papers 1997-10-01
Show Us The Cash!
From the executive summary: ‘Earnings per share are nice-to-have, and some debt investors are happy with information about business trends and the general direction of future earnings. More than any other metric, however, fixed-income investors look to comprehensive information about cash flow. A growing number of companies are moving away...
Tags: Financial accounting, CFO Publishing Corp., investor, earnings per share
White papers 2004-01-22
Stock Valuator
This template allows to value common stock using four approaches to value - book value per share is the amount per common share that would be received if all the firm's assets are sold for their exact book (accounting) value and if the proceeds remaining after all liabilities (and preferred...
Tags: Asset management, Financial Planning, dividend, asset, stock, accounting
Tools & templates 2007-09-01
Changing jobs improves men's earnings but does not help women
In an era when earnings are increasing among the top richest 20% of households, women are failing to get their share. It is suggested that organizations find competent and effective women managers and pay these women a salary rate, which is equal to the industry wide salary paid male managers....
Tags: Gender and diversity, women, earnings, salary, industry, job
White papers 1998-11-27
Duke Energy Earnings Jump 30 Percent
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Power company Duke Energy Corp (DUK) on Friday posted a 30 percent rise in first-quarter profit, beating Wall Street forecasts on gains in its utility and wholesale power businesses. Net income rose to $465 million, or 37 cents per...
Tags: Financial accounting, Duke Energy Corp., power company, earnings, Porter five forces, Thomson Reuters Corp., New York, earnings per share, net income
News items 2008-05-02
The Share Price Effects of Dividend Taxes and Tax Imputation Credits
This paper examine the hypothesis that dividend taxes are capitalized into share prices by focusing on investors' implicit valuations of retained earnings versus paid-in equity. Retained earnings are distributable as taxable dividends, whereas paid-in equity is distributable as a tax-free return of capital. Consistent with dividend tax capitalization, firm-level results...
Tags: Financial Planning, Financial accounting, dividend, tax, equity, valuation
White papers 2000-01-05
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