Wall Street typically excludes one-time charges in its estimates.
Operating profit, which excludes one-time items, fell to 36 million euros from 718 million euros.
The forecast excludes one-time charges related to a restructuring announced in July.
Operating profit, which excludes one-time items, fell 64 percent, to 83 million euros.
Aetna reported operating profit, which excludes one-time items, of 63 cents a share.
Adjusted net income, which excludes one-time items, rose 10percentto to 750 million euros ($961 million).
Analysts polled by Thomson Financial expected earnings of 97 cents a share, a prediction that typically excludes one-time charges.
Sales, however, rose 38percentto to 2.37 trillion won, and its operating profit, which excludes one-time items, rose 23percentt.
The company said its operating profit, which excludes one-time items, rose to 822 million euros ($794 million) from 751 million euros ($725 million) a year earlier.
The company said that it expected operating income, which excludes one-time items, to increase by about 10percentt and that its dividend would not be affected.
Munich Re's operating profit, which excludes one-time items, was 123 million euros, reversing a loss of 1.6 billion euros ($1.9 billion) a year earlier.
