Sentence examples for earnings basis from inspiring English sources

On a normalized earnings basis, these stocks are trading at eight times earnings.

"It was a terrific quarter on an earnings basis," said Charles Wolf, a financial analyst at Needham & Company.

"These are early-stage companies, so it's hard to look at them on an earnings basis, because they're still investing their money internally for growth," Mr. Mufson said.

That's why at 40 times earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, a proxy for operating cash flow, Salesforce's valuation looks slightly less lofty than on an earnings basis.

On a 2009 earnings basis, Western is the bargain of the bunch at 7.8 times earnings.

And while it's hard to justify this stock purely on an earnings basis, it's a good story stock.

The majority of stocks in Japan are still expensive on a price-to-earnings basis.

The stock is cheap on a price-to-earnings basis compared with the S.& P. 500.

Yet by historical standards, its price-earnings basis, the most fundamental measure of stock valuation, will be well above average.

But Prada is priced at a premium to others in the sector on a price-to-earnings basis.

Whether you do that on a price-earnings basis or any kind of adjusted-price basis, you come to that conclusion.