Finance glossary
Revenue
Definition
The total income a company earns from its core operations.
Revenue, or the top line, is the total money a company brings in from selling goods or services before any costs are deducted. It is the starting point of the income statement and a key gauge of demand and scale, though it says nothing about profitability.
In a sentence
Holiday sales pushed quarterly revenue past $1 billion for the first time.
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