That increase is probably in part due to one-time factors.
Sara Lee said third-quarter earnings fell by nearly 50%, due to one-time charges and higher commodity costs.
IntercontinentalExchange's revenue growth is strong, and the recent dip in net income due to one-time expenses isn't a concern.
Cubist earned $7.8 million, compared to $9.7 million, a year before a decrease due to one-time accounting charges.
(However, after stripping out the adjustments due to one-time sales of stock and other assets a year ago, net income was actually down 19percentt).
Office document management company Pitney Bowes Monday posted lower second-quarter net income due to one-time costs related to restructuring.
Cable operator Comcast said fourth-quarter cash flow fell 3% due to one-time costs to move its high-speed Internet customers to its own network from soon to be defunct ExciteAtHome.
Sprint, the No. 4 U.S. long-distance telephone company, Monday posted higher profits from continuing operations due to one-time gains but revenue at its main long-distance and local telephone business fell as cost-cutting offset weak demand.
The study shows that a 10% loss of original biomass due to one-time, not repeated, logging takes an estimated 10 years to recover, while a loss of 50% can take up to 75 years.
Starwood Hotels said it lost $107 million, or 59 cents per share, in the fourth quarter, compared with year-earlier profits of $79 million, or 44 cents per share, mainly due to one-time charges attributed to the companys weakened time-share business.
The company said that in the past it had evaluated its deferred tax assets quarterly and determined that valuation allowances were not necessary in the U.S., Canada and Germany because its three-year losses were due to one-time expenses and it still expected strong earnings at GMAC Financial Services.
