EPS
Earnings per share: net income divided by the number of shares.
How to read it
Forward EPS is analysts' consensus estimate for the coming year; the trend in those estimates often moves a stock more than the reported number.
How to use it
The base of the P/E; the direction of forward EPS estimates often moves a stock.
In Kereon
Investing · company. Reported EPS and the consensus estimates are the data vendor's.
Also called: eps, forward eps, eps consensus, per share (ttm), eps growth, eps growth est., eps growth estimate, eps growth (est.).