Look for Return on Net Worth (earnings as a proportion of total shareholders' funds) and Return of Capital Employed (earnings as a proportion of total capital including debt).
"We remain focused on delivering sustained improvements in operational performance and are confident in our outlook for the rest of this year and a return to earnings growth in 2016".
Furthermore, the decomposition method allowed us to highlight the differences in the marginal returns of doctors' characteristics and variables contributing to income, such as GP workload; we found that female GPs have a higher marginal return in terms of earnings when performing an additional medical service.
Fed officials told the banks they could not return more than 50 percent of earnings to shareholders, and specifically limited dividend payouts to no more than 30 percent of earnings.
He said the company, midway through a two-year, $13 billion share repurchase program, would return more than 65percentt of earnings to stockholders this year.
Later Ruth Davidson published her own 2014-15 tax return, showing earnings of £52,223 and tax of £10,513.
This Goldilocks zone — not too high, not too low, but just right — means that companies are returning a decent portion of earnings to shareholders, but not so much that they will have trouble raising payments.
The auditor said EDF's rate of return (core earnings over revenue) on foreign projects was just 12% in 2014, compared with 30.6% in France, and had been falling since 2009.
What We Know: We know that Citi's fundamentals have materially improved through better capital, reduction of Citi Holdings' assets and improved PTPP ROA [pre-tax pre-provision return on assets, a measure of earnings] at Citicorp.
The loss was accounted for by a tax charge on the expected return of $8 billion in overseas earnings.
