listed companies in the Chinese context. Financial performance is measured from two distinct aspects: (1) firm profitability … profit margin (GPM), and (2) corporate return, measured through return on investment (ROI), return on assets (ROA), and … return on equity (ROE). The results show a positive relationship between NPM, GPM, ROI, ROA, ROE, and IC (measured through …

on the effects of the patent stock on profitability. The database is a representative sample of German manufacturing … patent stock has a strong and robust effect on profitability …

earnings when measuring the return on equity of firms while constructing the profitability factor in the Fama and French (2015 …) five factor model. The profitability factor we construct has significant alpha relative to many extant multi-factor asset …-pricing models, including the standard Fama-French five factor model. When the profitability factor in the Fama and French (2015 …

exhibit increasing profitability returns-to-scale. That is, larger expenditures should be more profitable per dollar of …) profitability of expenditures made by U.S. Internet firms on brand, R&D and structural intangibles over the period 1995q1-2001q2 as …