The term
"record profits" refers to the highest amount of money a company has earned or made, usually in a specific time period. It means that the company has achieved their best financial performance and earned more money than ever before.
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For years, law firms have enjoyed
record profits in spite of their resistance to effective management.
Where again, let me repeat, publishers are
making record profits on the backs of artists, and no one is doing a thing about it.
With banks
posting record profits, some investors are wondering whether it's time to invest in financial stocks.
These are just some of the factors that have made the economy more productive and allowed American corporations to enjoy
record profit margins even as prices stay steady.
They are also a huge part of the reason so few traditionally - published authors can earn a living from their writing, even while publishers are
reporting record profits.
On the contrary, corporations have
generated record profits and impressive earnings, not by growing organically, but by cutting costs.
Or say you just want employees to remember and keep on remembering the importance of preserving cash or boosting gross margins or maybe just
recording a profit at the end of a month.
But what if I told you that I have seen plenty of businesses that, at the end of the year,
showed record profits.
It is also recommended
when recording profit or loss, that it is done in percentages — not a monetary figure.
If gas prices go up at the pump, you'll pay more to fuel your car, but you'll
also record profits from rising stock prices for oil producers.
The higher oil prices should not lead to higher profits, but the profits reported are
always record profits.
The cost of water is also going up - a subject of controversy, particularly
given record profits enjoyed by many water firms.
After that moment, price rules the day; meaning that you will never know with 100 % certainty whether your trade will
eventually record a profit or loss.
Oil companies are making
record profits today by drilling in ever more dangerous and sensitive areas.
Similarly, in stocks, analyst estimates reflect a quick return to
record profit margins about 50 % above their historical norms.
In 2010, the companies in our portfolio continued to fly over much of the ambient doom and gloom and, as a group,
generated record profits.
The American people have been loud and clear: the oil companies
making record profits shouldn't get special treatment.
Irish Independent - The five - star Lough Eske Castle hotel in Co Donegal last
year recorded profits of $ 1.54 m.
They noted that banks reported
record profits last year, despite tough Dodd - Frank Act rules, and Wall Street bonuses rose for the first time in three years.
A recent rise in the value of the Japanese yen against the U.S. dollar is adding to pressures on Japanese companies who had
reaped record profits as the yen weakened in recent years, fattening earnings brought back to Japan in yen terms.
«Farmers should be forward selling their beef to lock - in
record profits because it's unsustainable unless we see a rally in offshore prices,» Merricks chief investment officer Adrian Redlich tells The Australian Financial Review.
But Chinese demand for steel was heating up, and Pratt lost control of the $ 200 - million restructuring when Stelco started posting
record profits while claiming to be insolvent.
Deloitte has announced that Premier League clubs nearly tripled
record profits thanks to huge broadcast revenues and FFP rules controlling wages.
Now, I'm not going to try to argue the case for «the poor old publishers who need to earn more money to keep studios open» because several of these companies have
recorded record profits in the past year and studios still close regularly.
In contrast, current CAPE embeds a profit margin of 7.4 %, which results in a lower multiple that is only valid if we require
recent record profit margins to be sustained permanently.
Unfortunately, today we're seeing that economic prosperity isn't being shared by everyone, and that too many families are falling behind
despite record profits and economic gains being made by the country as a whole.
IPads are also facing competition from larger iPhones, which were introduced in September and helped Apple
deliver record profit in the latest quarter.