Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
🧠 Long-term memory 📊 Last 12 months
LTM

LTM

7.1
The most recent twelve months used to report financial results
  • noun
  • Specialized
translation icon : últimos doce meses
  • The company's LTM revenue grew by 6% compared with the prior year.

Examples

  • Analysts prefer using LTM margins when comparing performance across firms with different fiscal years.

  • When valuing startups, investors often look at LTM figures rather than only quarterly results.

  • The LTM is important!

  • Don't forget the LTM!

  • The company's LTM revenue grew by 6% compared with the prior year.

  • Analysts prefer using LTM margins when comparing performance across firms with different fiscal years.

  • When valuing startups, investors often look at LTM figures rather than only quarterly results.

Surface Forms

LTM singular
LTMs plural

Etymology

LTM can also stand for last twelve months in finance, which means the most recently finished 12-month period. It is like looking at the company's most recent 'year' of results to compare performance over time.