Since the financial crisis, Morgan Stanley's return on equity, a key measure of profitability for financial firms, has bounced around in the single digits. (fortune.com)
Each company is ranked by value (determined across a wide range of metrics including measures of dividends, cash flow, earnings, sales and assets) and quality (based on measures of profitability, stability and financial strength). (schroders.com)
The Comptroller also estimates that profits for the broker / dealer operations of New York Stock Exchange member firms, the traditional measure of profitability for the securities industry, did not exceed $ 13.5 billion in 2011, which would be less than half of the $ 27.6 billion earned in 2010. (rocklandtimes.com)