earnings
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The London-listed group booked a surge to nearly $2 billion in adjusted earnings in the division housing its oil-trading business at the start of this year.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
Shares are trading at about 18 times forward earnings, a sizable discount to the 23-times valuation they’ve had on average over the past five years.
From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026
They warn that it could take a surprisingly long time for S&P 500 earnings to “grow into” today’s lofty valuations if price/earnings multiples return to more normal historical levels.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
Wall Street analysts are expecting the company to report $1.96 in adjusted earnings per share, up from $1.70 the year before.
From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026
All these subprime lending companies were growing so rapidly, and using such goofy accounting, that they could mask the fact that they had no real earnings, just illusory, accounting-driven, ones.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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Century 21 Accounting, 9e, Chapters 11-14
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