The total earnings (which are calculated by percentage) on an investment over a financial year is called Return.
According to Khan and Jain,” The return on an asset for a given period say a year is the annual income received plus any change in market price, usually expressed as a percent of the opening market price.”
According to L.J. Gitman,” The return is the total gain or loss experienced on an investment over a period of time.”
Return is the payments to the owner of a security plus the change in the security’s value, expressed as a fraction of its purchase price. More precisely called the rate of return.