earnings
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On social media sites such as Reddit and Facebook, gig workers have posted about how the higher gas prices are eating into their earnings.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2026
“The bombs aren’t dropping, and earnings have been on fire and the economy’s resilience has been phenomenal,” Ed Yardeni, president of Yardeni Research, told Bloomberg Television on Friday.
From Barron's • Apr. 17, 2026
They each now trade around 15 times expected earnings.
From Barron's • Apr. 17, 2026
Both have been trading at mid-teens multiples of their expected earnings for more than a year, versus single-digit multiples as recently as 2022.
From Barron's • Apr. 17, 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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