earnings per share

“The last I checked, there's a 95 plus percent correlation between earnings per share and share price of companies throughout the history of the stock exchange.”

“Acquirers don't want to buy ongoing losses, so you have to have a manageable burn, and of course, that the various ways of looking at that, but it's typically as a percentage of the acquirers EPS how much they can absorb, how many kind of losses they can absor…”

“Our job is to make money at Salesforce Ventures, but it's more important we don't lose money. Because if we lose money, we have, we may have to take an EPS hit or an impairment charge. But as long as our investment doesn't go down, it's pretty much okay.”

“When big companies with a lot of cash make corporate investments, it's weird because if you're generating, at least in the US, if you're generating massive amounts of cash, it's orphaned on your balance sheet. You can't just go hire a thousand engineers. It hu…”