EPS

Earnings per share (EPS) is the profit attributable to shareholders (after interest, tax, minority interests and everything else) divided by the number of shares in issue. It is the amount of a company's profits that belong to a single ordinary share.

Companies are required to publish the statutory (also called "basic") EPS but there are a number of adjusted EPS numbers that are more useful to investors.

The most common alternative EPS numbers used are adjusted or headline EPS and diluted EPS.