earning a profit

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• profit — prof·it n 1: gain in excess of expenditures: as a: the excess of the selling price of goods over their cost b: net income from a business, investment, or capital appreciation compare earnings, loss …   Law dictionary

• Earning Potential — The possible upside of the earnings that could be generated for each share outstanding of a particular stock. Earning potential reflects the largest possible profit that a corporation can make. It is often passed on to investors in the form of… …   Investment dictionary

• earning capacity — The power of a person or a business enterprise to earn money or show a profit; to earn money or show a profit in a particular sum. The power to create property from earnings. Local Loan Co. v Hunt, 292 US 234, 78 L Ed 1230, 54 S Ct 695. An… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• Earning power — Earnings before interest and taxes ( EBIT) divided by total assets. The New York Times Financial Glossary * * * earning power earning power ➔ power1 * * * earning power UK US noun [U] ► the ability of a person to earn money or of a company to… …   Financial and business terms

• earning power — earnings before interest and taxes ( EBIT) divided by total assets. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary * * * earning power earning power ➔ power1 * * * earning power UK US noun [U] ► the ability of a person to ea …   Financial and business terms

• Profit — A financial benefit that is realized when the amount of revenue gained from a business activity exceeds the expenses, costs and taxes needed to sustain the activity. Any profit that is gained goes to the business s owners, who may or may not… …   Investment dictionary

• earning per share — noun the portion of a company s profit allocated to each outstanding share of common stock • Hypernyms: ↑net income, ↑net, ↑net profit, ↑lucre, ↑profit, ↑profits, ↑earnings …   Useful english dictionary

• earning — n. gaining through effort, achieving ɜːn v. receive as a result of work or other service performed, profit; be eligible, be worthy …   English contemporary dictionary

• profit plummets to — earnings sink to, earning decrease to …   English contemporary dictionary

• Non-profit organization — A non profit organization (abbreviated NPO , also not for profit ) is a legally constituted organization whose objective is to support or engage in activities of public or private interest without any commercial or monetary profit. In many… …   Wikipedia

• Normal Profit — When economic profit is equal to zero; this occurs when the difference between total revenue and total cost (explicit and implicit costs) equals zero. Normal profit is different than accounting profit because opportunity cost is taken into… …   Investment dictionary