You also have to look at the financial aspect -- the potential for high future earnings.
This newfound interest for skincare is generating bumper earnings for South Korea's beauty industry.
For now, the amount of overcharging is unlikely to have any significant impact on Dentsu's earnings.
Strictly Come Dancing host Claudia Winkleman - one of those expected to be on the list - said last week she was "all for" BBC stars' earnings being disclosed because they are "working for the public".
CW Chung, analyst at Nomura, said the recall was already taking a toll on Samsung's third-quarter earnings at its mobile division.
2 per cent of its operating income for 2015 — the latest figures available — and could fall to less than 18 per cent if expected earnings for 2016 are realised.
5 million in the last year despite a 30 per cent drop in earnings from $44 million last year.
Lawrence's 2016 earnings dropped 11.
The world's biggest personal computer-maker, Lenovo, said first-quarter earnings rose 64% to $173m (132m pound), beating market expectations.
In last month's earnings call, Mr Cook stressed the "long-term opportunity" in China, where sales grew 55 per cent to $40bn during the first three quarters of Apple's fiscal year.
Apple declined to comment on IDC's figures, ahead of its earnings report next week.
The banks' earnings also made up 52% of the total profits reported by listed companies last year.
But in a world of monopoly power, regulatory capture and a symmetric power relationships in bargaining over the wage and profit shares of business earnings, the presumption that those at the top of the income distribution earned their income flies out the window.
Despite relatively low comparative competition earnings and salary, the pair were the two highest earners in regards to endorsement deals last year, with 17-time Grand Slam champion Federer earning pound 41 million.
By the end, it found the taller participants saw a far greater increase in hourly earnings than the shorter ones.
When I became an entrepreneur, I had had experience tutoring, teaching and managing, but when it came time to delegate tasks that affected my earnings, I was much less enthusiastic.
Here is the redundant lawyer who "stepped in" to become an expert overseer of automated contract reviews; or the editor who "stepped up" to develop a computerised system for preparing and publishing sports statistics and earnings reports.
Mr Musk had a succinct answer, when asked about that on his company's quarterly earnings call earlier this week: Apple and Google do not make things.
Mainland companies make up more than half of the city's Hang Seng index but are valued well below local stocks as well as mainland-listed compatriots: the Hang Seng trades on 11 times expected earnings; the blue-chip mainland CSI300 trades on 13 times, but the Hang Seng China Enterprises index, made up exclusively of mainland-based groups, trades on a multiple of just 7.
They claim that women's lower earnings is not so much a pay gap, but a wage gap – and if women don't negotiate salary, for instance, then why worry about their lower earnings?
