net gain
Revenue minus costs
Net gain is the increase that remains after subtracting losses, costs, or deductions from a total gain.
The phrase appears in financial contexts—The investment showed a net gain of twelve percent after fees—but extends to any situation where you're measuring what you actually came out ahead: Despite the setbacks, the project was a net gain for the company.
- profitGain exceeding expenditure
- bottom lineEssential point or conclusion
- surplusAmount exceeding requirement
- in the blackOperating at profit
- benefitAdvantage or gain
value added · yield · return · earnings · advantage · windfall · upside · growth · increase · accumulation · dividend · payoff · money in the bank · bonus · proceeds · revenue · appreciation · margin
- gainsearnings, income, returns, increase, rise
- payoutspayout, disbursement, dividend, cash prize, reimbursement
- investment returnsrate of return, dividends, ROI, returns, profit
- profitsgross profit, operating profit, profit margin, profit margins, gross earnings
- investment taxesdividends, investment income, capital losses, capital loss, interest income
- fishing idiomshook line and sinker, fish out of water, the one that got away, fishing for compliments, fish or cut bait
net gainnet loss
Total financial shortfall
total loss · deficit · loss · red ink · negative balance
net gainnet loss
Total financial shortfall
step backward · regression · deterioration · backslide · setback
net, gain, nets, netted, netting, gains, gained, gaining, gainer