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Net
Income Applicable to Common |
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Investing Lesson 4 - Analyzing an Income Statement |
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Net Income Applicable to
Common Shares
The net income applicable to common shares figure is the bottom-line profit
the company reported. To get the basic earnings-per-share [Basic EPS] figure,
analysts divide the net income applicable to common by the total number of
shares outstanding.
The last line, at the bottom of
the income statement is the amount of money the company purports to have made
(net income, total profit, or reportable earnings; its all the same). Hence the
cliché, whats the bottom line?
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