The phrase "achieved earnings" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing financial performance, particularly in the context of reporting or analyzing income or profits that have been realized over a specific period.
Example: "The company reported that it achieved earnings of $5 million in the last quarter, exceeding expectations."
Alternatives: "realized earnings" or "earned income".
Over the last decade Cardinal's stock price has compounded at an average 26% a year; Cardinal is one of a handful of large U.S. companies that have achieved earnings-per-share growth in excess of 20% for 15 straight years.
By 2015, he had already said, Amec would achieve earnings of 100p a share, more than double the 2008 tally.
But that sort of thing has been happening all year to firms that failed to achieve earnings forecasts.
In a filing, the S.E.C. said that the executives "overstated earnings and hid losses in order to deceive investors and create the appearance of achieving earnings goals".
AmerisourceBergen, a pharmaceutical services company based in Chesterbrook, Pa., said the agreement included incentive payments based on AutoMed's achieving earnings goals over the next two and a half years.
Finally, multinationals that invert have an easier time achieving "earnings stripping," a tax maneuver in which an American subsidiary is loaded up with debt to offset domestic earnings, lowering the effective tax rate paid on sales in the United States.
Here's the less bullish version: Aviva's investors will have to wait until 2017 for the deal to achieve earnings neutrality; and Friends Life's shareholders will suffer an effective cut in their dividend in 2016, maybe of about a quarter.
"We have full confidence that Dell will achieve earnings of $0.31 for the current quarter, and will guide seasonally into the fiscal third quarter," said Prudential. "Management will likely reiterate commentary around stable/improving demand, and we remain optimistic about the back half of the calendar year".
Banks cannot achieve earnings gains indefinitely from lower credit losses (or higher mortgage origination income, for that matter).
Mr. Thompson said Kroger should have no problem achieving earnings-per-share growth in the 16 to 18percentt range going forward.
