The phrase "a dollar of earnings" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing financial metrics, particularly in the context of profit or revenue generation.
Example: "The company reported a significant increase, with each share generating a dollar of earnings last quarter."
Alternatives: "one dollar of profit" or "a dollar in revenue".
Investors have been willing to pay 10% to 40% more for a dollar of earnings from this star than for a dollar earned by the average banker.
And then you've got a stock market that is valuing a dollar of earnings at about 40 or 50 times.
On the other hand, Facebook isn't at the moment growing all that fast, and it can help investors to think about how much they're paying for a dollar of earnings.
Right now, investors are willing to pay $35 for a dollar of earnings, nearly triple the historical norm.
Right now, investors are willing to pay $35 for a dollar of earnings, which is nearly triple the historical norm for this ratio.
You are paying $14 for a dollar of earnings from these companies, whereas you're paying $20 or more for broadly similar U.S. firms today so that's quite a discount when you invest outside the U.S. today.
And a funny thing happened on the way to the 21st century: the price-earnings ratio -- the price of a dollar of corporate earnings -- soared.
But there's definitely something odd about how little investors are willing to pay for a dollar of Apple's earnings, or Google's earnings, relative to what they're willing to pay for a dollar of FB's earnings (or a non-dollar of other social-networking companies' non-earnings).
That measure, called PE, represents the price people are willing to spend on a business for each dollar of earnings it generates.
A low ratio suggests that each dollar of earnings is priced relatively cheaply -- and should become even cheaper because earnings are growing rapidly.
Congress could fix this by phasing in the credit in at the first dollar of earnings at a cost of about $15 billion over 10 years.
