The phrase "absolute earnings" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in financial contexts to refer to the total earnings of an individual or entity without considering any deductions or adjustments.
Example: "The company's absolute earnings for the fiscal year exceeded expectations, leading to a significant increase in shareholder value."
Alternatives: "total earnings" or "gross earnings".
In reality, Berkshire's profit performance was an absolute stand-out: earnings per A-share rocketed from $3,224 to $11,850 – an increase of 268percentt.
It worked.But in absolute terms the earnings of foreign firms in China are almost certainly still small.
For now we reiterate our sell recommendation on Punch, due to long term concerns over the business model and continuing high absolute debt to earnings levels".
Yet this extended period of underperformance, given the "estimated absolute growth of earnings for both this year and next, a relative P/E ratio of a discount to the 22-year median valuation, and dividend yields that are 55%to70%0% above their domestic peers, should go a long way in offering reassurance," argues Stovall.
It is often asserted that because estimated employment elasticities in the range −0.1 to −0.2 are well below 1 in absolute value, the earnings of affected workers, on the whole, will rise substantially when the minimum wage is raised (for example, Freeman, 1996).
Our strategy is similar to Grogger and Hanson's (2011), who relate the log odds of residing in country h for a person from country s is thought to be determined by absolute differences in earnings between the two countries and by the cost of migrating that is idiosyncratic to that particular country of origin and destination pair.
Why are you upbeat about bank and brokerage stocks? A. Valuations are at the very low end of absolute price-to-earnings ratios, the condition of the industry is extraordinarily sound, and no one ever sees the end of the business loan cycle ahead of time.
Aside from charts on market valuation covering price-earnings ratios, book value and yields, corporate profits are the best leading indicator for me not absolute numbers but profits relative to their long-term earnings trend.
Our results show large effect sizes for an item's impact on income, revenue, assets, and equity; moderate effect sizes for the nature of the item and risk; and small effect sizes for earnings trend, absolute size of item, firm size, current assets or working capital, and return on investment.
