Return on investment
nounid
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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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Variants
- acronym
- ROI
- synonym
- return on invested capital
- alternatephrasing
- Return on Investment
- plural
- Return on investments
- possessive
- Return on investment's
- pluralpossessive
- Return on investments'
Framework definitions
- §1
- 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
- §1
- (corporate finance) the amount, expressed as a percentage, that is earned on a company's total capital calculated by dividing the total capital into earnings before interest, taxes, or dividends are paid
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