The price run-up happened despite a 43% drop in third-quarter net earnings compared to 2009.
But the difference between gross ticket sales, gross earnings and net earnings is ignored.
Yet net earnings grew by 22% as a result of cost-cutting and adept financial management.
However, net earnings from downstream operations could potentially suffer because of low refining margins.
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Meanwhile, net earnings from Merrill Lynch Investment Managers slipped 23% as money market balances fell.
Excluding foreign exchange effects, net earnings are projected to rise by at least 32%.
Private Client Services net earnings declined 6%, while Corporate and Institutional Client Group plummeted 49%.
Since becoming chief executive in 1990, he's helped the company ring up 12% average annual net earnings growth.
Net earnings matched our estimates and beat The Street forecast by a penny.
The company is currently paying out less than half its per-share net earnings.
Adjusted net earnings, which exclude charges and benefits related to tax items, rose 41% to 72 cents per share.
On a per-share basis, net earnings soared 137% to 71 cents a share.
Aetna , an American health-maintenance organisation, reported that first-quarter net earnings had fallen by 40% on a year earlier.
The net earnings of the subsidiary are profits and not salary and won't get hit with the extra 2.9% tax.
The company said that for the year, ended Jan. 31, 2012, it expects a net earnings increase of 18 percent.
In earnings news Halliburton Co. ( HAL) reported that its fourth-quarter net earnings rose 50%, while revenue jumped 37%.
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The net earnings trend subindex fell another 5 percentage points to -27% after it had declined 7 points to -22% in June.
Unless the investments are held in tax-deferred accounts, you will pay taxes the year the interest is earned, reducing your net earnings.
Net earnings were propelled by top-line growth with a steady recovery in the U.S. housing market driving consumer appetite for home improvement products.
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When the auditors finally came up for air, they repeatedly asserted that the restatement would not affect Amerco's net earnings, the suit says.
In July, the company had surprised analysts by reporting a 58% jump in net earnings on a stand-alone basis for the first quarter.
After posting increases across the board in net earnings, to revenues to production and reserves, Silver Wheaton finds itself in an enviable position with a mining industry that is looking for money.
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When it comes to completing your tax return, there is a section which is headed "other income", and it is here where you will enter the net earnings from the web business.
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Net earnings from operations are expected to decline approximately 15 percent- 20 percent in the first quarter due to gross margin pressure and higher marketing-related costs, to be followed by earnings growth in all subsequent quarters.
The company saw third quarter adjusted net earnings fall 7% versus the same period a year ago, in part because of a severance package paid to a former chief executive officer, but saw production rise 6%.
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When her net earnings reached about 5, 000 pesos per week, she considered it was the right time for his sons to return home, since the money they were making in the United States was only useful for survival and was not enough to send additional money back home.
The change in net earnings and operating cash flows is primarily due to a 36% increase in the number of silver equivalent ounces sold, which was partially offset by a 24% decrease in the realized price per silver equivalent ounce, the company said in its quarterly statement Thursday.
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We applied the average price-to-earnings multiple of the parent company to the net brand earnings number to arrive at a brand value.
Net operating earnings is among the most basic definitions of performance for a publicly-traded company, but it turns out that just betting on businesses that grow that metric the fastest is not the safest or most lucrative way to approach the market.
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Net income and earnings per share have been almost as good, except for a dip in 2006.
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