What are headline earnings per share?

Answer 1

Headline earnings per share is proclaimed to be a more maintainable measure of a companies earnings. It achieves this by altering the original earnings per share of the company to remove much of the capital income and expenditure and focussing more on the income and expediture as a result of trading. Although still malleable through creative accounting many analysts hail it as a more robust and comparable figure than the existing earnings per share figure.