Using cash to buy back equity boosted earnings per share, making it easier for companies to meet quarterly profits targets.

利用现金回购股票[注4]，提高每股收益，使得企业能更容易地实现季度利润目标。

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Performance measures such as earnings per share or return on equity may encourage excessive risk-taking.

每股收益、股权回报率等业绩衡量指标可能会鼓励过度冒险。

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This is at odds with how global fund managers base their decisions - on details such as earnings per share, return on equity and the consistency and transparency of a company's operations.

这与全球基金经理的决策依据不符。他们依据的细节包括：每股盈利、股本回报率、公司业务的连贯性和透明度。

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The measurements varied widely, ranging from sales to return on equity to earnings per share.

ECONOMIST: Management pay

The acceleration in buyouts and buybacks will keep creating a booming world stock market by shrinking the supply of equity while boosting earnings per share.

FORBES: Never Before!

Though it slightly underperforms its domestic peer group in return on assets and return on equity, Popular's earnings per share are growing faster (15.3% vs. 12.7% compound annual growth over the last five years).

FORBES: Show Me the Dinero