EPS Y/Y

Earnings per share growth, trailing twelve months

One of the 61 measures in Stock Scorer, under Growth — Is the business getting bigger, and is it getting more profitable?

How it is worked out

Net income growth, trailing twelve months, divided by the change in the diluted share count

Earnings per share growth. The bottom line, so it carries tax changes and one-off items that the operating measures above leave out, and it swings hardest of all the growth measures.

How to read it

the bottom line, so it carries tax changes and one-offs that the operating measures above exclude. Swings hardest of all the growth measures, and off a small base it can read in the hundreds

Which figures it needs

Computed from 2 figures taken from the filing:

• net_income
• diluted_shares

The XBRL tags behind it

These are the element names looked for in a filing, in order. The first one a company reports is the one used, and the company page names which it was — so any figure here can be checked against the filing it came from.

• NetIncomeLoss
• ProfitLoss
• NetIncomeLossAvailableToCommonStockholdersBasic
• WeightedAverageNumberOfDilutedSharesOutstanding
• WeightedAverageNumberOfSharesOutstandingDiluted
• WeightedAverageNumberOfDilutedSharesOutstandingDiluted

Whether it counts

This measure is not counted by default. It can be added to Growth on the dashboard, and it then takes its share of that dimension.