Earnings Estimates

Equivalent Patient Days represents actual admissions/patient days adjusted to include outpatient services. It is obtained by multiplying actual admissions/patient days by the sum of gross inpatient revenues and outpatient revenues, and dividing the result by gross inpatient revenues.

ESOP Debt Guarantee represents all transactions related to a company’s Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), such as shares/debt/loans owned by ESOP.

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Excise Taxes Receipts represents a government-levied tax on the manufacture, sale, or consumption of goods and services, and is included in the sale price, collected by the seller, and returned to the government. The tax can be imposed at any trade level and can either be a specific tax or a value-added tax (percentage of value).

Excise Taxes Payments represents excise taxes and any other taxes collected from customers on behalf of governing authorities and paid to the authorities. Excise Taxes Payment is used only when the company does not disclose the payment in its revenue section. If this payment is disclosed in the revenue section, Excise Tax Receipts is used.

Executory Costs reflects administrative, legal, and tax expense deducted from future capital lease payments to reconcile payments to present value. This item will be used when capital lease maturities are presented as gross payments (versus maturities presented at present value). It will always be reported as a negative value.

Expected Rate of Return- Domestic represents the estimated return on plan assets for plans based in the company’s home country.

Expected Rate of Return- Domestic reflects the estimated return on plan assets for plans based in the company’s home country.

Expected Rate of Return – Foreign represents the estimated return on plan assets for plans based in countries other than the company’s home country.