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Core earnings. Core earnings report the performance of a corporation's core business operations, including producing and marketing the primary goods or services it sells, the cost of granting stock options, restructuring charges for ongoing operations, and meeting pension obligations. Equally important, core earnings exclude gains in the value of a company's pension account portfolio, certain one-time sources of income, such as the sale of an asset, and goodwill. In developing this measure, Standard & Poor's intention was to provide investors with a uniform, more transparent way to compare earnings across companies. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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ROSEMEAD - Edison International on Tuesday showed improving signs of life despite a heavy debt load, combining quarterly and annual core earnings gains. FEI expressed concern that the core earnings measure developed by S&P oversimplifies the decisions that investors routinely make in analyzing reported earnings and valuing companies, and that its "one size fits all" approach will inherently bias the measure against certain types of industries and companies. Reported earnings are reconciled to core earnings in attachments B and C. |
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