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return on asset (roa) value for a stock is reported differently on yahoo finance and marketwatch
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why there is this huge difference? i am not able to reconcile yahoo's answer of 5.75%, even using their definition for roa of: return on assets formula: earnings from continuing operations / average total equity this ratio shows percentage of returns to total assets of the company.   this is a useful measure in analyzing how well a company uses its   assets to produce earnings. i suspect the "average total equity" in their formula is a typo, but using either measure i cannot come up with 5.75% for any 12-month period. i can, however, match marketwatch's answer by looking at the 2016 fiscal year totals and using a "traditional" formula of net income / average total assets: i'm not saying that matketwatch is right and yahoo is wrong - mw is using fiscal year totals while yahoo is using trailing 12-month numbers, and yahoo uses "earnings from continuing operations", but even using that number (which yahoo calculates) i am not able to reconcile the 5.75% they give.
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