Commenting on the housing market, Mr King said that house prices were "high" by any standard, whether in relation to average earnings or income.
Valuation multiples for minatory transactions are estimated at the 5x-7x earnings before income tax, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) range, while outright control purchases carry higher multiples.
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While 90% of its earnings before income tax, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) come from five key industrial assets, the company has its marketing unit as a substantial cash cow.
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Yet every single one of the executives at these banks have received stock and cash as incentives that were based, at least in part, on earnings and income that turned out to be illusory.
When Service Corp. started paying more than nine times operating earnings (income before depreciation, interest and taxes) for funeral homes, Stewart refused to pay more than eight times-even if it meant losing a desirable location.
If you overfund your HSA, you must pay a 6% excise tax on excess contributions, although you can avoid the excess contribution penalty if you withdraw the excess contribution and earnings by the due date of your tax return, including extensions, for that year and report the earnings as income.
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For example, domestic partners in community property states must split both earnings and the income tax withheld on those earnings.
Earnings reflect gross income and do not account for things like taxes and manager fees.
This will happen when the administration allows them to repatriate foreign earnings without any income tax impact.
The government also slapped price controls on some food items and increased subsidies for low income earnings struggling with food inflation.
For most of them, personal earnings and endorsement income will decline substantially or vaporize while they are still in their thirties and forties.
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Indirect jobs occur when that teacher who otherwise would have been laid off goes shopping and is able to spend income earnings that she otherwise wouldn't have had.
There are two perspectives given this morning on households' spending habits under the burden of their still-big debts and insecurity about prospects for jobs, earnings and disposable income.
The case turned on whether the endorsement earnings were royalty income based on his image or personal services income based on his performance on the golf course .
Report your worldwide income including interest on the foreign account and other earnings even if the foreign income is taxed elsewhere.
As a matter of equity and politics, there is little appeal in further increasing a tax whose burden falls most heavily on low-income workers, while the well off escape Socail Security taxes on a portion of their earnings and are having their income taxes cut.
Merrill Lynch figured it was priced at 16 times operating income (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization).
Net income and earnings per share have been almost as good, except for a dip in 2006.
But this is an expression of wealth, a stock, not of income or earnings, which is a flow.
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The firm used an accounting change to count as earnings a portion of income on some projects in dispute.
In the third quarter of 2012, Wells Fargo achieved six consecutive quarters of record net income and earnings per share.
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Half its business--48% of revenue and 49% of operating income (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization)--comes from commercial aviation.
Operating income (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) increased 4.5%, to 16.1 million pounds during the quarter ending September 30.
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Yet its enterprise valuation (debt plus market value of common) is only 3.8 times operating income (earnings before depreciation, interest and taxes).
Most of that, it said, would be due to a fall in export earnings, aid and income from rich countries now in recession.
Superior Well's enterprise value (market value plus debt, minus cash) is 29 times its trailing operating income (earnings before interest, taxes and depreciation), also costly.
This is the ratio of enterprise value (market value of common stock, plus debt, minus cash) to operating income (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization).
Opponents of this tax system claim that it is ripe for corruption because taxpayers have a major temptation to tweak their earnings to show negative income.
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Various costs are subtracted from the revenues to calculate various progressively smaller measures of profit and loss: gross income, net income, EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization), taxable income, etc.
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