Benefits are usually earnings-related and administered by the employer, a supportive role for the family is encouraged, and social divisions are maintained [ 6].
This usually boosts earnings per share, which makes it an attractive choice for executives motivated by share options.
The investment-banking arms of the big banks all showed a worrying dip in revenues for their fixed-income divisions, usually an earnings powerhouse.
These were usually operating earnings targets, which failed to account for capital employed and which varied from one part of the organization to another.
Usually the earnings releases on zombie stocks don't matter with the exception of any new guidance on evaluating molecules.
These bonds usually pay a spread of 7 percentage points more than the S&P 500s earnings yield (the price-to-earnings ratio turned upside down).
REITs must usually pay at least some foreign income tax on their foreign earnings.
Losses, consistently low profit margins, or very volatile earnings usually indicate a great degree of business risk.
But because earnings usually rise faster than inflation, the number of taxpayers facing the 40% marginal rate has increased from 2.1m to about 3.3m since 1997.
The market approach, probably the most common way to value a healthy business, produces a valuation based on a multiple of the company's past earnings — usually the last 12 months of Ebitda (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization).
Investors use cash flow, usually defined as earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, to gauge results of indebted cable operators because it excludes interest payments and noncash charges.
