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EARNING PER SHARE
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I. (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))