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The company said that it expects 2012 earnings before, interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation to be about €89m (£73m).
Net debt reduced £106m to £613m for the year, reducing DMGT's debt to earnings before, interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation to a healthy 1.6 times.
ITV reported a 41% drop in adjusted pre-tax profits to £167m last year and a 32% drop in earnings before interest, tax and amortisation to £211m.
Britain's second-biggest health and fitness chain recorded a 28% rise in earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation, to £76.2m, up from £59.3m a year earlier.
GMG Radio delivered a strong financial performance, growing operating profit before exceptional items and amortisation to £2.5 million (2011 £0.9 million).
Mecom, which also has operations in Denmark and Poland, said that it now expects earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation to be down €14m year on year in the first half to about €52m.
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Mecom, which was founded by former Mirror Group executive David Montgomery and also has operations in Denmark and Poland, said that it now expects earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (Ebitda) to be down €14m (£11.3m) year on year in the first half to about €52m.
Ebitda (earnings before interest, tax depreciation and amortisation) fell to £306m from £333m, but remained higher than the 2009 total of £298m.
BT upgraded its forecasts for the full year with earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation expected to come in at £5.8bn, compared with its previous forecast of £5.6bn.
Earnings before interest and tax, depreciation and amortisation are expected to rise to £1.39bn.
The next best thing, comparing market prices with the book value of assets, vastly underestimates the value of companies with intangibles such as patents and brands.An alphabet soup of ratios is available to escape the flaws of measuring earnings: price-to-EBITDA (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation) and price-to-cashflow, for example.
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