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  2. What is earnings per share? - AOL

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    Earnings per share (EPS) measures the amount of total profit earned per outstanding share of common stock in a specific period, usually either a quarter or a year.

  3. Earnings per share - Wikipedia

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    Earnings per share (EPS) is the monetary value of earnings per outstanding share of common stock for a company during a defined period of time. It is a key measure of corporate profitability, focussing on the interests of the company's owners ( shareholders ), [ 1 ] and is commonly used to price stocks.

  4. What Is Earnings Per Share (EPS)? - AOL

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    The best place to start is to determine how the stock is valued, and one of the most popular and effective metrics to help make that judgment is earnings per share, known as EPS. "We use a wide ...

  5. What Earnings-Per-Share (EPS) Tells Investors - AOL

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    Earnings per share (EPS) is a financial measurement that tells investors if a company is profitable. Savvy investors consider a company’s earnings per share when determining investment decisions.

  6. Earnings surprise - Wikipedia

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    An earnings surprise, or unexpected earnings, in accounting, is the difference between the reported earnings and the expected earnings of an entity. [1] Measures of a firm's expected earnings, in turn, include analysts' forecasts of the firm's profit [2] [3] and mathematical models of expected earnings based on the earnings of previous accounting periods.

  7. Whisper number - Wikipedia

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    When the estimate is first calculated by sell-side analysts, the number is submitted to companies such as First Call to be averaged with other analysts' estimates for the consensus earnings estimate. As new information is made available and plugged into the spreadsheet, the calculation may change several times leading up to a company's actual ...

  8. Ask a Fool: What Is Earnings Per Share?

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    Earnings per share is net income divided by the total number of shares outstanding. Plainly put, it's the amount of money an investor earns for each share.

  9. Earnings call - Wikipedia

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    An earnings call is a teleconference, or webcast, in which a public company discusses the financial results of a reporting period ("earnings guidance"). The name comes from earnings per share (EPS), the bottom line number in the income statement divided by the number of shares outstanding.