corporate profits
Business bottom line
Corporate profits are the earnings that remain after a company subtracts its costs from its revenues.
The term typically appears in discussions of business performance, taxation, or economic indicators: Corporate profits hit record highs last quarter.
When economists track corporate profits as an aggregate, they're measuring the overall health of the business sector.
- net incomeProfit after all deductions
- cashReady spending funds
- bottom lineEssential point or conclusion
- stockGoods kept for sale
- inflation rateSpeed of rising costs
market demand · capital gains · cost-cutting · earnings · dividends · shareholder dividends · pricing strategy · tax compliance · cash flow · bonus · employee bonuses · mergers and acquisitions · retained earnings · champagne · fat cats · margins · market expansion · loopholes
- finance termsbudget, credit, debt, income, revenue
- corporate taxcorporate tax, corporate taxation, taxable income, tax liability, corporate income
- inequalitywealth gap, income gap, disparity, wage gap, income disparity
- oil industrypetroleum, oil fields, oil well, oil rig, oil production
- taxationtax, income tax, sales tax, tax return, tax refund
- macroeconomicsGDP, GNP, gross domestic product, gross national product, inflation rate
corporate profitsbusiness losses
Negative corporate earnings
net losses · operating losses · deficits · financial losses · red ink
corporate profitssalaries
Fixed regular payments for work
payroll · employee compensation · wage growth · benefits · worker benefits
corporate profitspublic welfare
Society's general health, safety
social spending · public investment · common good · social benefits · wealth redistribution