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Diluted earnings per share

Profit expressed per share, counting the shares that would exist if every option, warrant and convertible were exercised. The diluted figure is the conservative one and the one this site prefers.

Definition

How it is computed here

Formulanet income attributable to common shareholders ÷ diluted shares
UnitCurrency per share
PeriodOne fiscal year, as reported
SourceExtracted from SEC filings; every value on an asset page carries the accounting tag and the filing it came from
Identifierlpa_diluido
The limit

What this number does not tell you

EPS changes when the share count changes, so buybacks raise it without the business earning a cent more. Across a stock split the series is not comparable at all, and this site refuses to compute a change that crosses one.

Every metric on this site is published with its blind spot stated. A figure without its limit is half a fact.

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In the data

Highest reported diluted earnings per share

From the most recent fiscal year of each company. Only companies reporting in US dollars are ranked here — a figure in yen or won is not larger, it is in another currency.

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