earning per share

1. 1.

   the portion of a company's profit allocated to each outstanding share of common stock

   Broadernet income

Questions about earning per share

What does earning per share mean?

earning per share means "the portion of a company's profit allocated to each outstanding share of common stock".

Is earning per share a common word?

earning per share is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.