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Return on investment

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A measure of operating performance and efficiency, computed in its simplest form by dividing net income by the total investment over the period being considered

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Classifications

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

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Information Class

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Variants

acronym
ROI
plural
Return on investments
possessive
Return on investment's
pluralpossessive
Return on investments'