Sentence examples for core profit from inspiring English sources

GMAC will have to meet certain core profit goals before individuals can receive payouts.

"We expect profit before tax in the markets division to fall from £1.5bn in 2012, [26% of "core" profit before tax], to just £0.6bn in 2013," Gordon said.

But eventually I.B.M. hopes to bring Solaris to mainframes, the big multitasking machines that have been a core profit center for the company for decades.

It said that its turnover is up 5 percent to £47.3 million, or $75.5 million, with a core profit before tax of £2.9 million.

Being the group's core profit division, T-Com was expected to finance the mobile business and to reduce the group's debt of more than 60 billion euros ($59.1 billion) but its earnings declined instead.

More than his predecessors, Mr. O'Neal has devoted considerable resources to bolstering Merrill's Lynch's proprietary trading business, long a core profit center for Merrill competitors like Goldman Sachs, but not traditionally seen as an area of strength at Merrill.

"The core profits of the banks in Japan haven't drastically improved yet, especially compared to major players in other countries," Nana Otsuki, a credit analyst at Standard & Poor's in Tokyo, said.

Royal Bank of Scotland rose 2.26p to 42.74p, the best performer in the leading index after its first quarter figure showed an increase in core profits, while results from insurer Admiral were also well received, and it added 35p to £16.97.

Rather than "snapshots" of banks' balance-sheets, which are riddled with accounting quirks, they should use rolling "stress tests" that try to capture losses over several years, taking into account off-balance-sheet activities as well as banks' core profits.

While Fannie Mae reported $6.4 billion in "core profits" from its existing portfolio of mortgages, its net assets actually fell slightly, indicating that many of the new mortgages it had bought during the year would not be as profitable as the ones they replaced.

It says the banks' combined core profits last year were £31.5bn.