Sentence examples for earned profit from inspiring English sources
The phrase "earned profit" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in financial contexts to refer to the profit that a business has generated through its operations.
Example: "After reviewing the quarterly financial statements, it was clear that the company had earned a significant profit this year."
Alternatives: "generated profit" or "accrued profit".
Moody's Corp, the ultimate parent, earned profit margins of 90% from our group.
Mr. Tonko charged that the reason for the spending differences was that the utility earned profit on its capital investment but not on its maintenance expenditures.
Costco Home ranked 65th in U.S. furniture sales last year and earned profit margins that are comparable to those that Costco Warehouse earns.
Derek Baine, a senior analyst at SNL Kagan, said big cable networks earned profit margins of 40 to 60percentt, while a good year for a broadcast network is a 10percentt profit margin.
(Facebook last year earned profit of $15.9 billion on $40.7 billion in revenue). The former FTC officials said the actual fines would be far smaller but could easily top the previous record of the $168 million civil penalty by the FTC against the DISH Network for violating telemarketing rules.
A time when American businesses earned profit at the annual rate of $1.659 trillion in the 3rd quarter of this year, the most on record.
It consistently earned profits of 25 cents on every sales dollar, an astonishing record.
Schlumberger, with headquarters in Paris and Houston, earned profits of $5 billion on revenues of $40 billion last year.
Last year, through just 37 outlets, it earned profits of $205m, almost double the year before.
"We must have made 20 to 25 films and earned profits, too," he boasted.
At least shareholders will know payments will always be made from earned profits.
