margin vs earnings

earnings vs margin

margin and earnings both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
margin	Yes	No	No	No
earnings	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, earnings is a hypernym of margin; that is, earnings is a word with a broader meaning than margin:

margin: (finance) the net sales minus the cost of goods and services sold
earnings: the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)

Other hypernyms of margin include lucre, net, net income, net profit, profit, profits.

margin (noun)	earnings (noun)
an amount beyond the minimum necessary	something that remunerates
a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits	the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)
the blank space that surrounds the text on a page
the amount of collateral a customer deposits with a broker when borrowing from the broker to buy securities
(finance) the net sales minus the cost of goods and services sold
the boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary

Difference between margin and earnings

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