| Earnings | The amount of money remaining after a company pays its bills, taxes, and other expenses. It is also known as net income or net profit. Publicly traded companies usually report their earnings on a quarterly basis. | |
| Earnings Per Share (EPS) | A company's earnings, divided by the number of total shares outstanding. EPS tells you how much of a company's profit is attributed to each outstanding share of its common stock. | |
| EBIT | Earnings before interest and taxes. | |
| EBITDA | Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization. | |
| EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval) | The SEC's electronic system that provides online access to many of the documents publicly traded companies file with the SEC. (www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml) | |
| Expense | A company's incurring of liabilities, or outflow or depletion of assets, through carrying out the activities that constitute their central operation. |
