Earnings per share, compound annual rate over the last five fiscal years
Whether the per-share earnings actually compounded, rather than jumped once. Read from the per-share history the filer reported, not worked out from profit and a share count. Refused whenever a share split sits inside the window, because the history either side of one is not on the same basis.
the sustained version of the measure above, so a single strong year moves it far less. Refused outright when either end of the window is a loss, because a compound rate between a profit and a loss has no meaning, and refused when the reported per-share figure does not reconcile with net income over the share count
More about EPS CAGR 4Y, and the XBRL tags behind it
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