Glossary
Earnings from Continuing Operations

Earnings from normal business that is expected to operate in the foreseeable future.

Earnings from Discontinued Operations

Earnings from a segment of a company that has been sold, disposed or abandoned.

Earnings Growth

A percentage growth in a company's net income from continuing operations (see Earnings from Continuing Operations) over a specific period of time.

Earnings Growth (Q YOY)

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Earnings Per Share (EPS) Growth

The percentage change in earnings per share over time. It helps investors to identify the stocks that are increasing or decreasing in profitability. This is a TTM figure (see Trailing Twelve Months).

Earnings Per Share (TTM)

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Earnings Per Share Growth

The percentage change in earnings per share over time. It helps investors to identify the stocks that are increasing or decreasing in profitability.

This is a TTM figure (see Trailing Twelve Months).

EBIT

Earnings before interest and taxes is a measure of a company’s profit with focus on earnings from operations. It is not a GAAP metric (see GAAP).

EBIT (TTM)

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EBITDA

TEarnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization is used when assessing a company’s financial performance. It allows for a profitability comparison without effects of financing and accounting. It is not a GAAP metric (see GAAP).

EBITDA (TTM)

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Efficiency Index

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Enterprise Value

A measure of a company's total value, often used as a more comprehensive alternative to market capitalization (see Market Capitalization). It includes the company’s debt in its calculation and is very important in takeover valuations.   

Note: Banks do not have enterprise value mainly due to a large variety of the outstanding debt.

Enterprise Value/EBIT

A ratio of enterprise value to earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization.

This is a TTM figure (see Trailing Twelve Months).

Enterprise Value/EBITDA (TTM)

A ratio of enterprise value to earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization.

This is a TTM figure (see Trailing Twelve Months).

Enterprise Value/Revenue (TTM)

A measure of the value of a stock that compares a company’s enterprise value to its revenues. This ratio is often used to determine a company’s valuation in the case of a potential acquisition.

This is a TTM figure (see Trailing Twelve Months).

EPS (Earnings Per Share) Basic

The amount of a company's profit that can be allocated to one share of its stock and does not include dilutive effects on convertibles (see Convertibles).

EPS (Earnings Per Share) Diluted

Diluted earnings per share helps to determine how the earnings per share could be reduced if a variety of convertible instruments were to be converted to stock. The diluted earnings per share include shares that might or will be issued in the future, such as stock options promised to management and will always be lower than the simple earning per share.

EPS Diluted (TTM)

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EPS Diluted Growth

A percentage growth in a company’s diluted earnings per share over a period of time.

EPS Diluted Growth (Q YOY)

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Exchange

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Exchange

The stock exchange on which the company is listed. The core function of a stock exchange is to ensure fair and orderly trading, as well as efficient dissemination of price information. Exchanges such as: NYSE (New York Stock Exchange), AMEX (American Stock Exchange), NNM (NASDAQ National Market), and NASQ (NASDAQ Small Cap) give companies, governments and other groups a platform to sell securities to the investing public.

Exponential Moving Average (EMA)

The exponential moving average is a weighted moving average that gives more weighting, to recent price data than the simple moving average does. The EMA responds more quickly to recent price changes than the SMA. Also see Weighted Moving Average and Simple Moving Average.

Extraordinary Item & Accounting Change

Is an event or transaction that is considered abnormal, not related to ordinary company activities, and unlikely to recur in the foreseeable future.

Weiss Ratings