The phrase "average profit estimate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing financial projections or assessments regarding expected profits over a certain period.
Example: "The average profit estimate for the upcoming quarter is projected to be 15% higher than last year."
Alternatives: "mean profit projection" or "typical profit forecast.".
The average profit estimate of analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial was 40 cents.
The average profit estimate of analysts surveyed by Thomson First Call was 83 cents.
The results beat analysts' average profit estimate of 25 cents a share.
The average profit estimate of analysts polled by First Call/Thomson Financial is $3.52 a share.
The average profit estimate of 13 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg was 39 cents, and the company earned 46 cents a share in the fourth quarter last year.
The average profits estimated, based on the price of the kernel (chali) and the cost per hectare for different treatments, were in the order of water control < S. abbasi < chlorpyrifos < H. indica.
Revenues at Goldman are seen dropping 50% from the third quarter and 32% from the first quarter last year, and analysts' average $3.27 per share profit estimate for the quarter, if accurate, would be the lowest quarterly result for the firm since the third quarter of 2006.
It also includes average profit per year (P), estimated product lifecycle (TLC), average development cost per year (C), and years of development (TD).
The company said it was comfortable with analysts' average profit forecast for the year, an estimate that is within the company's previous forecast range.
Thus, despite all the frightening circulation numbers, Goldman Sachs, an investment bank, estimates that the average profit margin for America's 12 biggest newspaper publishers in 2004 was 21%, more than double the average of the Fortune 500 companies.
Sageworks' preliminary estimates for 2012 indicate the average profit per employee that a company makes increased nearly 1percentt from 2011.
