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earnings
Revenues minus cost of sales, operating expenses, and taxes, over a given period of time. The reason corporations exist, and often the single most important determinant of a stock's price. also called income. see also: dilution, earnout, fundamental analysis, growth, normalized earnings, operating income, price/earnings ratio, quantitative analysis, retained earnings, return on assets, return on equity, value investing.
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