EARNING PER SHARE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does earning per share mean? 

• EARNING PER SHARE (noun)
  The noun EARNING PER SHARE has 1 sense:

1. the portion of a company's profit allocated to each outstanding share of common stock

  Familiarity information: EARNING PER SHARE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EARNING PER SHARE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The portion of a company's profit allocated to each outstanding share of common stock

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("earning per share" is a kind of...):

earnings; lucre; net; net income; net profit; profit; profits (the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses))