(Please ignore the treatment of goodwill, advertising, R&D, you get the idea though...) To soften the blow on the income statement, changes in the value of many balance sheet items don't get run through net income, but through accumulated other comprehensive income, so that income can reflect
sustainable earnings power, in theory.
Not exact matches
And, the company has begun to demonstrate steady,
sustainable growth, and consistent
earnings power with revenue rising by about 10 % per year for the past three years.
At its core, this exercise is about evaluating whether the business»
earnings power is solid and
sustainable through various market and industry conditions.
Dividend yields don't tell us a whole lot about the quality of the dividend (i.e., if it's
sustainable) or the
earnings power behind the dividend.