Principal Financial Group, Inc. Owner Earnings

Metrics similar to Owner Earnings in the popular category include:

• Unearned Revenue Current - Revenue collected or promised for which the reporting company still has to provide goods or services less than 12 months into the future.
• EBT Excl. Unusual Items - This item represents EBT Before Non Recurring Items and is arrived at after adjusting, the following, to Operating Profit (OPIN): 1. Interest Expense, Total and 2. Total Non Operating Income/(Expenses) (NOIET).
• Goodwill - This item represents the excess of purchase price paid over the fair market value of net assets acquired, net of any write downs for impairment in value. Goodwill is now no longer amortized over an estimated useful life as was being done earlier (prior to SFAS 142). Instead the balance of goodwill has to be assessed at every reporting period and a write down for impairment has to be recognized when determined. The assessment for impairment is done by applying a fair value based test.
• Machinery - This item represents the Assets of a durable nature held by the company, at their gross values, which are to be used in the production or sale of goods, sale of other goods or rendering of services rather than being held for sale. This is the residual item consisting of all the types of fixed assets not classifiable as either Land or Building.