Per Share

What is diluted earnings per share?

Profit per share counting all shares that could exist if options and convertibles were exercised.

How it is calculated

Net income available to common shareholders divided by diluted weighted average shares, as the company reports it.

How to read it

The EPS figure to use. Growth in diluted EPS faster than net income means the share count is shrinking.

Where the numbers come from

Scrutar computes diluted earnings per share from the figures each company reports to the SEC in its annual and quarterly filings, using the XBRL data attached to those filings.

More Per Share metrics

Revenue / ShareSales spread over each share, which shows whether growth is reaching shareholders or being diluted away.How to read it →FCF / ShareFree cash flow spread over each share: what a share earned in real cash after the business paid to maintain itself.How to read it →Book Value / ShareShareholders’ equity spread over each share, the accounting value behind one share.How to read it →Diluted SharesThe average number of shares during the period, including shares that options and convertibles could add.How to read it →

See it for a real company

Ten years of diluted earnings per share and every other metric on this page, for every company Scrutar covers, computed from SEC filings.

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