The Review of Economics and Statistics Vol. 16 No. 3 1934
The Course of Corporation Profits
Abstract
T HE major purpose of this article is to trace the recovery in profits, and figures at least as frequent as quarterly are needed. It is desirable also to exclude certain types of corporate enterprise: railroads and other utilities, banks and other financial concerns. Unfortunately there are no quarterly figures which give an adequate coverage, or even an approximation thereto, of all industrial corporation profits in the aggregate. We base our discussion of the quarterly record on aggregate data for a small list of leading industrial corporations (Chart i), which publish quarterly reports in a form available for this purpose.' The list is not a highly satisfactory sample of all industrial corporations, and it seems likely that the resulting figures give an over-favorable indication of the degree of revival in profits.
- DOI
- 10.2307/1928414
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 61
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