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Yardbird | What's the difference between sales and earnings? |
Can sales be higher than earnings?
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For example Wild Oats has a high P/E but a low P/S. How is that possible? |
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tsbr1963
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Yeah, check out Ford and GM.
Sales are great...but they are making practically nothing on each car they sell and earnings SUCK.
Lets say it costs me $2 to make something. I sell 100 of them for $3. My sales are $300, my earnings are $100. Earnings are 33.3% of sales.
Now lets say I sell 100 of them for $2.10. Now my sales are $210 and my earnings are $10. Earnings are 5% of sales.
In the second case sales are WAY higher than earnings..... |
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Jeremy G
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I'm honestly not 100% about this but I think this is right...sales is the total amount sold, while earnings just describes profit margins. So earnings is total sales minus expenses. |
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mikewolfpack
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Sales is the Total amount sold without any deductions.....Earnings is the total sold minus overhead |
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NC
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Sales MUST be higher than earnings. Earnings = Sales - Cost of goods sold - Sales, general & administrative expenses - Interest - Income taxes. |
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Earnings = Sales - expenses |
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nova50
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Sales is revenue and earning is profit so lets say I have $100,000 in sales with a 10% profit margin then I'd have $10,000 in earnings. P/E is share price divided by earnings per share which is your P/S |
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Chuck Nite
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Sales is the dollars rung on the cash register,for example ,in a retail setting . Earnings is after the wages and other costs of doing business are subtracted. Earnings equals profit. This is why p/e is bigger than p/s . |
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