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Every term is defined twice: once the way a filing would put it, and once the way somebody would explain it to you across a table. The second one is usually the one that sticks.

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Stub period

Accounting

A reporting period that is not twelve months long, usually because a company changed its financial year end.

In plain terms

The statement heading says "for the period ended" rather than "for the year ended". Every year-on-year percentage across that boundary compares unequal lengths of time.

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Indian stock market glossary · Market Vidyalaya