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The company said today that profit for 2003, excluding any extraordinary items, would be about $3.90 to $4 a share.
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The company reported earnings of 6 cents an A.D.R. after all extraordinary items, in contrast to a loss of 2 cents a year earlier.
Excluding extraordinary items, AOL earned 23 cents a share.
A year earlier, also excluding such extraordinary items, MetLife earned $370 million, or 47 cents a share.
Profit before extraordinary items was 995 million euros ($896 million), up from 465 million euros a year earlier.
Before special and extraordinary items, earnings were $64 million, or 13 cents a share.
Excluding extraordinary items and writedowns of assets, earnings grew by 18.8percentt.
Though they exclude extraordinary items, they include write-offs that companies think are best ignored.
The Canada Post Group of Companies posted a slim profit of C$94m on revenues of C$7.5bn in 2012 because of extraordinary items.
Shell had a $7.14 billion profit in the quarter, up 2.3 percent from last year, after including extraordinary items and inventory changes.
"Even when you take out the extraordinary items, they appear to have beat our estimates for operating income," he said.
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