Earnings per share
Value of earnings per outstanding share of common stock for a company / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other uses, see EPS.
Earnings per share (EPS) is the monetary value of earnings per outstanding share of common stock for a company. It is a key measure of corporate profitability and is commonly used to price stocks.[1]
In the United States, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) requires EPS information for the four major categories of the income statement: continuing operations, discontinued operations, extraordinary items, and net income.