Do you use TTM or LTM?

Water Cooler Investing
#1

Do you use TTM (trailing twelve months) or LTM (latest twelve months) as an acronym for the most recent 12 months of financial data?

#2

LTM for me, but TTM is also popular, can’t go wrong with either.

#3

TTM

#4

I learned with TTM.

#5

For what it’s worth, TTM and LTM are in initialisms, but not acronyms: you don’t pronounce them as words.

(ToTeM, anyone? Let’eM?)

#6

I use JoMonma

#7

LTM

#8

Always trailing 1 year or trailing 12 months here.

#9

Thanks for the feedback on this. I’ve typically used LTM in the past but I think I will go with TTM on this projects since it applies to historical periods whereas I think LTM works best for the current calculation.

#10

TTM - Trailing twelve months

LTM - Leading twelve months

More importantly, it seems that Chad started a thread, then it was subsequently moved by (presumably) a mod.

It sounds like the inmates are starting to run the asylum.

#11

I use both. A lot of the international private companies I work with use LTM.

#12

_ Starting to _?

Where’ve you been these last (at least) 3½ years?

It sounded more like an investment question than an off-topic question to me, so I moved it to the forum in which I thought Chad would get more (or better) replies.

Chad (unwisely, perhaps) trusts me to do such things.

#13

FTFY. (Trailing Forty-Two)

#14

I love it!

(Though, on reflection, shouldn’t it be _ TFTM _?)

#15

ttm

#16

Haha. Yes, I suppose TFTM. laugh

#17

LTM so far, but the CFA curriculum uses “trailing”. However I would never type TTM in any of my reports.

#18

LTM