She shares, however, in the extraordinary profit margins that mining companies in Australia enjoy forty-two per cent in 2011, when business profit margins as a whole were thirteen per cent.
The result compares to a year-ago profit of 56 cents per share and a 19 cent per share profit in the second quarter.
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Excluding one-time costs, the firm made a profit of one cent per share, comfortably beating expectations for a three-cent loss.
She plans to acquire electronic rights to backlists, sign up new authors (with fifty-per-cent profit-sharing), and form a self-publishing division.
Under the Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme, branded-drug companies are allowed to make a profit of up to 21 per cent on any medicines they sell to the NHS. They have a free hand to set the prices when they are introduced but, every five years, the government and the companies agree an across-the-board cut on all drugs.
Between 2002 and 2008, annual sales had grown just 1.6 per cent, and profit margins were shrinking.
Last week, the company announced that it was expecting a third-quarter loss of 15 cents to 20 cents a share when Wall Street had expected a 12-cent per share profit.
The quarter was break even, versus a 2 cent profit in the same period last year, but better than the three cent per share loss expected by analysts.
The bank's profit number beat consensus forecasts by about 5 per cent, and the core tier one capital ratio -- a key measure of financial strength -- was also slightly ahead of expectations at 12.3 per cent.
Zumiez (ZUMZ) announced that fourth-quarter profit increased by 22 percent to 60 cents per share, beating analyst estimates by one cent.
Although Advanced Micro Devices reported profit of 15 cents a year ago, the consensus estimate calls for earnings per share of one cent.
The company reported a net profit of 24 cents per share, down from 27 cents last year, without an 84-cent gain related to the split.
Forty of Sony's top executives, including Kazuo Hirai, the chief executive since last year, are to give up bonuses worth 30-50 per cent of their pay after they failed to keep a promise to return the division to profit.
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