Talk:Earnings per share

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I was looking for HEADLINE EARNINGS/(LOSS) and EARNINGS PER SHARE. I don't know the cpy right accociation, so you may please decide what you can put up on Wiki....

Paul

I need to find the formula to count the Weighted Average number of shares.

Yunus

If there were 10000 shares at start of year and 5000 issued on 11th day of a non leap year then the weighted average would be (10000*10+15000*355)/365. Is that enough of a clue? Do you have other things happening to the shares besides a share issue? crandles 13:36, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Dave

I'm with Paul, you need to define WANofS somewhere. I realize now it is basically Number Of Shares (thx Yunus), the weighted average bit makes you think it's something more complicated.

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Is EPS calulated per quarter or per year? —Preceding unsigned comment added by FreakBoy (talk • contribs) 14:07, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

It can be "calculated" (cited actually) any way that is convenient. It will usually be annual, but news reports will often have EPS in the most recent quarter. The key thing is to use the annual for calculations that depend on annual convention, like price/earnings.--Gregalton (talk) 16:46, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

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EPS can apparently be negative, at least for common stocks, as a look at current EPS listings will show. Some explicit statement of the fact that the numerator in the ratio can be either profit or loss seems called for although it is implicit in the Net Income formula. Lycurgus (talk) 17:57, 25 January 2008 (UTC)