Discontinued operations
A business the company is selling or closing: its result is lifted out of the main lines into a separate one.
How to read the number
Exists so that the trend of the continuing business is not distorted by something that will soon no longer be part of the company.
When the metric lies
The gain on disposal still lands in total net income. The year of an exit looks successful even when nothing improved operationally.
Also known as: disposal group