Earnings per share (EPS) is the amount of earnings per each outstanding share of a company's stock.
In the United States, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) requires companies' income statements to report EPS for each of the major categories of the income statement: continuing operations, discontinued operations, extraordinary items, and net income.
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