Chocolate and cocoa products manufacturer Barry Callebaut has seen its full -
year profit jump almost 40 %, thanks to lower cocoa prices, and extended its mid-term guidance to fiscal year 2018/19.
Not exact matches
Wall Street expects another huge
jump in Amazon's revenue, but lower
profits, compared with last
year, when the company reports its first - quarter earnings on Thursday.
Shipbuilder Austal reported a big
jump in
profit for the first half of the financial
year, while it is still unsure of what its exact role will be in the upcoming $ 3 billion offshore patrol vessel build program.
Overall sales were essentially flat last
year, but
profits jumped 16 %.
Perth - based Cedar Woods Properties looks set to keep annual
profits in line with 2012 takings after reporting a
jump in half -
year earnings.
Waste management and industrial services company Toxfree has reported a 33 per cent
jump in net
profit to $ 10.5 million for the first half of the financial
year.
French firm Bouygues
jumped 5.17 percent after reporting higher sales and
profits in the first nine months of the
year.
Netflix stock is up around 790 % in the past two
years, with
profits jumping to $ 71 million in the second quarter of 2014 compared to $ 30 million the
year before.
Then something strange happened:
Profits rose just as much as the previous
year, fueled by a surprising productivity
jump — of 30 to 40 percent.
At the other end of the European benchmark, Cobham was a top gainer,
jumping 10 percent by the close as it reported a pretax
profit in 2017, after having registered a loss in the previous
year.
Gold miner Northern Star Resources has increased its dividend payout after confirming a 65 per cent
jump in full -
year profit, on the back of higher gold prices and a reduction in costs.
Profits from mobile devices
jumped to 3.3 trillion won compared with just 100 billion won at the same time last
year, when the company booked the costs of the withdrawal of its fire - prone Note 7 gadget.
Despite a 34 %
jump in revenues, the New Jersey - based energy company slid to a loss from a
year - ago
profit due in large part to impairment charges on plants in Delaware and Australia.
The following
year, the company's
profits had increased by $ 454 million and subsequently its stock price more than doubled,
jumping from 45 cents a share to 96 cents a share.
Its 2013
profits were mired in red ink, but one
year later they had
jumped to $ 674 million.
Amazon's revenue
jumped 27 % last
year and
profit soared by nearly 300 %.
Since going public two
years ago, the company has seen its stock
jump from $ 8 a share to a recent price of $ 59.62 — giving it a market cap of $ 5.3 billion — even though it has yet to post a
profit.
AMC's full -
year revenue
jumped by more than $ 2 billion last
year, but
profits were down 10 %.
Operating
profit from direct - to - consumer operations
jumped to C$ 6.6 million from C$ 369,000 a
year ago, Canada Goose said.
For four
years running, it has grown revenues at a 50 % clip, while
profits have
jumped fivefold.
HSBC, the largest bank in Europe by assets, announced last week a 141.4 percent
jump in reported pre-tax
profit to $ 17.17 billion in the
year 2017.
One only has to look at Best Buy's most recent earnings report to see how far the company has come: Comparable - store sales rose 3.8 %,
profits soared, and online sales
jumped 17 %
year over
year.
The Silicon Valley company reported a 63 increase in
profit and a 49 percent
jump in revenue from a
year earlier.
Macquarie's
profit soars to record $ 2.6 b: Macquarie Group's full -
year net
profit jumped 15 per cent to a record $ 2.56 billion, buoyed by debt capital markets income and asset management performance fees.
McDonald's
jumped 3.7 percent to one of the biggest gains in the S&P 500 after it reported healthier
profit and revenue than analysts expected for the first three months of the
year.
The company had its first profitable quarter ever in Q4, reporting
profits of $ 91 million on $ 732 million in revenue, a
jump of 2 percent over last
year.
In Q4 2016, corporate
profits jumped a remarkable 22 % from the prior
year.
Profits at the New York Times
jumped by two - thirds in the first quarter of 2018 compared with the same period a
year ago, thanks to a boom in digital subscribers.
But Panasonic Corp.
jumped 2.3 percent in Tokyo after Kyodo News agency cited sources at the company as saying it expects to return to
profit in the business
year ending March 2013.
The company brought in
profit of $ 61 million on $ 665 million in revenue, a
jump of 21 % on revenue it posted the same quarter last
year.
Combined
profit at the six largest U.S. banks
jumped last
year to the highest level since 2006, even as the firms allocated more than $ 18 billion to deal with claims they broke laws or cheated investors.
For the full
year, the net
profit jumped by 58 per cent to Rs 829.4 crore from Rs 523.7 crore in 2016 - 17.
Shares of Chevron fell on Friday even as the oil major beat Wall Street's expectations on the top and bottom line and as
profits and revenues
jumped from a
year ago.
The maker of heavy industrial and construction equipment said that sales
jumped almost 10 % to $ 11.33 billion, and
profit climbed by nearly half compared to the
year - ago period.
A few
years later, he
jumped into China's housing market, where he made
profits in major Chinese cities and provinces like Xiamen, Beijing, and Jiangxi.
Constellation Shares Hit Record High on Strong Results Constellation Brands Inc. reported a better - than - expected 16.6 percent
jump in quarterly sales, primarily driven by robust demand for its beers such as Corona and Modelo, and the company raised its full -
year adjusted
profit forecast...
Treasury shares
jumped more than 11 per cent on Thursday to climb above $ 10.60 after the wine group reported a net
profit after tax of $ 179.4 million for the
year ended June 30, up from $ 77.6 million a
year earlier.
After Treasury Wine Estates» Asian
profits jumped 16-fold in just three
years, chief executive Mike Clarke will move to a new California base and try to repeat the trick in the United States.
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A boom in trading is largely responsible for the surge in
profits, bringing in $ 7.4 billion in revenue through June, a 40 percent
jump from last
year, according to the comptroller's office.
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profits at online dating group Cupid
jumped by 67 % to # 7M in the
year to the end of December.
Konami has reported that it's seen a
jump of 77.3 %
year - to -
year increase in
profits from a 9 month period, thanks to its involvement in digital publishing and social networking games.
North American operating
profits hit $ 11 billion for 2015, a 67 - percent
jump from 2014, a
year in which GM had to pay costs associated with safety recalls of some 30 million vehicles.
At Volkswagen subsidiary Porsche, which he has led since 2010, Mueller is credited with helping deliver record revenue and
profit, with deliveries
jumping 17 percent in 2014 from a
year earlier.
But appearances don't do this situation justice: RIM is doing very well, reporting a 33 %
jump in Q2
profit over last
year, fueled almost entirely by consumers, not businessfolk.
Profits haven't skipped a beat, however, with full -
year earnings
jumping nearly 30 % to $ 890 million.
Take financials, with a forecast 19.1 % Q1
profit jump from a
year ago, the third - biggest gain of any sector.
Revenue stood at # 15.1 billion for the
year, while underlying
profits jumped 20 per cent to hit a record high of # 589 million, according to its annual results.
The spike in revenue led the company to a 62.6 %
jump in operating
profits to $ 146.6 million for the first nine months of the fiscal
year.