earnings per share. Corporations. A measure of corporate value by which the corporation’s net income is divided by the number of outstanding shares of common stock. • Investors benefit from calculating a corporation’s earnings per share, because it helps the investor determine the fair market value of the corporation’s stock. — Abbr. EPS. fully diluted […]
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Corporations. A measure of corporate value by which the corporation’s net income is divided by the number of outstanding shares of common stock. • Investors benefit from calculating a corporation’s earnings per share, because it helps the investor determine the fair market value of the corporation’s stock. — Abbr. EPS.
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A corporation’s net income — assuming that all convertible securities had been transferred to common equity and all stock options had been exercised — divided by the number of shares of the corporation’s outstanding common stock.
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earnings per share 每股收益 衡量普通股价值的常用方法。其数值通过用全年的净收益减去利息和优先股股利后除以发行在外的普通股股数而得出。
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The earnings per share of a security divided by its market price. • The higher the ratio, the better the investment yield. — Also termed earnings-price ratio. Cf. PRICE-EARNINGS RATIO.
price-earnings ratio. The ratio between a stock’s current share price and the corporation’s earnings per share for the last year. • Some investors avoid stocks with high price-earnings ratios because those stocks may be overpriced. — Abbr. P/E ratio. Cf. earnings yield under YIELD.
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dividend-payout ratio. A profitability ratio computed by dividing annual dividends per share by earnings per share.
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payout ratio. The ratio between a corporation’s dividends per share and its earnings per share. Cf. COMMON-STOCK RATIO.
common-stock ratio. The relationship of outstanding common stock to the corporation’s total capitalization. • The common-stock ratio measures the relative claims of stockholders to earnings (earnings per share and payout ratio), cash flow (cash flow per share), and equity (book value per share). Cf. PAYOUT RATIO.
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