where can i find earnings per share for various companies in previous years?
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Yahoo Finance.  Once you have found the company, there is a "historical prices" link on the left column.  Go to it.  You can even export the history to excel, just scroll all the way down to the bottom, you will find a "download to excel" button.
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go to www.annualcreditreports.com and get a free report each year
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I suggest you visit Yahoo finance and check some of the info from the companies that sell their stock shares.
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try nseindia.com or bseindia.com or economictimes.com
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you can get it in a spreadsheet from yahoo finance:\n\nhttp://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=NKE\n\nthey will have it back a long ways, some stocks go back 30 years.
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How about the websites of each of the companies you just mentioned.  Try investor relations, and/or checking out their press releases.
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TOTAL COMPANY\n    2005 INCOME FROM CONTINUING OPERATIONS COMPARED WITH NET INCOME*\n\n\n                                  Fourth Quarter              Full Year\n                             Earnings  After-          Earnings After-\n                                 Per     Tax  Pre-Tax   Per       Tax  Pre-Tax\n                               Share*  Profit  Profit  Share*   Profit  Profit\n                                       (Mils.) (Mils.)         (Mils.) (Mils.)\n\n    Income from Cont. Ops.\n    Excluding Special Items     $0.26   $511     $869   $1.28 $2,516   $3,374\n\n    Special Items\n     - Jaguar/Land Rover\n        Impairment             $(0.39) $(845) $(1,300) $(0.40) $(845) $(1,300)\n     - Personnel Reduction\n        Programs                (0.29)  (626)    (962)  (0.37)  (791)  (1,216)\n     - Visteon Related\n        Charges**                 ***      6       39   (0.22)  (458)    (468)\n     - Fuel Cell Technology\n        Charges                   ***     (2)       0   (0.05)  (108)    (116)\n     - Sale of Non-Core\n        Businesses                ***      6        6    0.06    123      107\n     - Tax Adjustments****       0.12    252        0    0.30    639       85\n     - Hertz Sale*****           0.50  1,071    1,405    0.53  1,126    1,489\n    Total Special Items        $(0.06) $(138)   $(812) $(0.15) $(314) $(1,419)\n\n    Income from Cont. Ops.      $0.20   $373      $57   $1.13 $2,202   $1,955\n\n    Disc. Operations              ***      2             0.02     47\n    Cumulative Change in\n    Accounting Principles\n     - FIN 47 - Asset\n        Retirement Obligations  (0.12)  (251)           (0.11)  (251)\n          Net Income            $0.08   $124            $1.04 $1,998\n\n    *     Earnings per share from continuing operations is calculated on a\n          basis that includes pre-tax profit, provision for taxes, and\n          minority interest; additional information regarding the method of\n          calculating earnings per share is available in the materials\n          supporting the Jan. 23, 2006, conference calls at\n          http://www.shareholder.ford.com.\n    **    See materials supporting the Jan. 23, 2006, conference calls at\n          http://www.shareholder.ford.com for further detail on Visteon\n    ***   Less than $0.01\n    ****  Primarily reflects prior year federal and state tax settlements and\n          tax savings from repatriation of foreign earnings pursuant to the\n          American Jobs Creation Act of 2004\n    ***** See materials supporting the Jan. 23, 2006, conference calls at\n          http://www.shareholder.ford.com for further detail on impact of\n          Hertz sale\n\n\n                     FORD MOTOR COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARIES\n\n                       CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF INCOME\n               For the Periods Ended December 31, 2005 and 2004\n                   (in millions, except per share amounts)\n\n                                      Fourth Quarter           Full Year\n                                     2005       2004        2005       2004\n                                       (Unaudited)      (Unaudited)\n    Sales and revenues\n    Automotive sales               $41,823    $38,870    $154,515    $147,128\n    Financial Services revenues      5,738      6,059      23,586      24,518\n      Total sales and revenues      47,561     44,929     178,101     171,646\n\n    Costs and expenses\n    Cost of sales                   40,184     37,218     145,987     135,852\n    Selling, administrative and\n     other expenses                  6,455      6,468      24,651      23,901\n    Interest expense                 1,984      1,635       7,643       7,071\n    Financial Services provision\n     for credit and insurance losses   133        359         483       1,212\n      Total costs and expenses      48,756     45,680     178,764     168,036\n\n    Automotive interest income and\n     other non-operating\n     income/(expense),
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The amount of income the company made divided by the number of shares of stock it has issued.
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depends on your needs.. i do it by attach the annual financial report from previous year and current year.. so it will be easier to show to the reader the performance that has been done on current year
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I use yahoo finance.  Go to http://finance.yahoo.com/ In the box that says "Look up a quote" enter the abbreviation for the stock you are looking for.  Then on the left side of the page, under the heading "More on (stock you chose)" Click historical prices.  That should allow you to look up prices for any day.
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For individual stocks, you can go to finance.yahoo.com and enter your ticker symbol.  Then go to "historic prices" on the left and click "dividend only."  This will show you all the dates and amounts of dividends.
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Go out to their website and look there, if you don't find anything look at their annual stockholder's report, which should be located on their website as well.
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go to the SEC website
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Go to a company's website and look for their financial statement.  All companies have a link to their financials for their investors.
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For Marriott Hotel you can check http://ir.shareholder.com/mar/information.cfm\n\nThis will give you their annual reports, 10-Ks, and proxy statements.
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This is much harder to do than it may seem.  The chief problem may be that you are keying on the earnings reporting date, not the quarter ending date.  \n\nThus, if a company reports great results for the quarter 1/06-3/06, but they report their earnings on 4/15/06, you want to see what happened to the stock beginning 4/15 going forward (and you may or may not be interested in the activity on 4/15 itself depending on whether they reported before the market opened, or after it closed).  To do this analysis precisely and automatically with some sort of screening software may not be possible because the earnings reporting dates vary.\n\nBest way I can think of to do this is go to \n\nwww.earnings.com\n\nNot all companies info will be given here, but for a whole lot of companies you can get the history of conference calls for a company, what they reported as earnings, and how this reported number compares to their guidance if they gave any.  Based on the time of day for the conference call you can also make a good guess as to whether the company reported earnings before the market opened or after the market closed.  From there you have to just look for companies that consistently beat quidance and had increasing earnings and check them out.\n\nAlso, though you are not asking for my advice, let me throw it in anyhow (you can ignore it if you want).  It sounds like you are trying to get a system for buying certain companies before earnings hoping for either a pop in price after earnings or a slow progression upwards until the next earnings date.  I think you may be onto something, but I doubt you will find an easy little system to follow.  Each company behaves differently (some always beat earnings, some usually hit earnings, some are erratic) but the companies behavior is well known by the people who track the stock and probably built into the price before earnings.  Thus, you are trying to estimate what actual earnings will be compared not to what past earings have been, nor compared to the companies own guidance but rather compared to the markets consensus of what the earnings should be and who knows what that number is.  Also, more important than the companies earnings might be their forward guidance and this may drive the price alot more than the actual earnings.\n\nTo give an example for that last sentence, supposed a company consistently beats earnings by varying amounts, and is growing at 20-30% per year.  They guide their earnings 10% above last years number, but since they always beat the market may decide they are just being cautious and based on how their industry has been chugging along the market prices the stock as if earnings will come in 30% above last year.  Earnings come in and are 20% above last year.  On the day they report earnings, the company shows 20% growth, and is still 10% above quidance but will nonetheless probably have a really bad day because the actual earnings are 10% below what the market was expecting.\n\nTo give another example suppose a company is growing 20%, is expected to earn 20% more than last year, hits the number perfectly, but then guides lower for next quarter.  Watch out below, the earnings in this case is meaningless.\n\nI guess what I'm saying is there are alot of details to consider and if you get it right 2/3rd of the time you may end up a millionaire in spite of having some really bad days.  Anyhow, www.earnings.com may be the place to look for this data, and best luck with your analysis.
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If you have an on line stock broker account, they probably have access to S&P reports that will give you the historical data. \n\nNot all REITs are anywhere near the same nor do they pay the same dividends. And many times a portion of the dividend is a return of capital. \n\nThere are even multiple categories of REITs. Appartment REITs, Office building REITs, shopping mall REITs, even storage bin REITs, hotel REIT's, and probably others I am not familiar with.