{"id":1084,"date":"2019-05-20T04:17:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T04:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=1084"},"modified":"2020-08-12T02:19:01","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T02:19:01","slug":"earnings-per-share-eps-definition","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/article\/earnings-per-share-eps-definition\/","title":{"rendered":"Earnings Per Share (EPS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Earnings per share (EPS)<\/strong> is the portion of a company&#8217;s profit allocated to each share of common stock. Earnings per share serve as an indicator of a company&#8217;s profitability.<\/p>\n    \t\t<div class=\"hts-messages hts-messages--info  hts-messages--withtitle  \"   >\r\n    \t\t\t<span class=\"hts-messages__title\">EPS calculation<\/span>    \t\t\t    \t\t\t\t<p>\r\n    \t\t\t\t\tEarnings per share (EPS) = Net Earnings (profit) \/ Total Outstanding Shares    \t\t\t\t<\/p>\r\n    \t\t\t    \t\t\t\r\n    \t\t<\/div><!-- \/.ht-shortcodes-messages -->\r\n    \t\t\n<p>Increasing earnings per share causes your firm&#8217;s share price to rise because the profit being earned per share is increasing which increases the value to investors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earnings per share (EPS) is the portion of a company&#8217;s profit allocated to each share of common stock. Earnings per share serve as an indicator of a company&#8217;s profitability. Increasing earnings per share causes your firm&#8217;s share price to rise because the profit being earned per share is increasing which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[40,37,32],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1084","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-mikesbikes-accounting-business-simulation-glossary","ht_kb_category-mikesbikes-advanced-business-simulation-glossary","ht_kb_category-mikesbikes-introduction-business-simulation-glossary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1153,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1084\/revisions\/1153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}