Excluding special items and discontinued operations, Duke said it had earned 25 cents a share in the period.
Excluding one-time items and discontinued operations, income fell to $2.6 million, or 7 cents a share, from $9.5 million, or 33 cents a share.
Excluding one-time items and discontinued operations, Williams had second-quarter profit of $500,000, or less than 1 cent a share, its chief financial officer, Donald R. Chappel, said in a conference call with analysts and investors.
Excluding one-time items and discontinued operations, earnings rose to 40 cents a share from 34 cents a year earlier.
Excluding special items and discontinued operations, the company said it will earn between 19 cents and 20 cents per share, compared with 35 cents per share last year.
As a result of the discontinued operations and the current economic downturn, which has had an adverse effect on Teleflex's other businesses, the company revised its expectations for earnings excluding special items and discontinued operations to between $3.25 and $3.55 a share.
Dow reported earnings of $0.41 per share, or $0.43 per share excluding certain items, compared to 3 cents per share in the first quarter of 2009, or $0.11 per share excluding certain items and discontinued operations.
Miller and his chief operating officer, Mary Sammons Mary Sammons, lead an effort to close moneylosing stores, slash prices on nonpharmacy items and improve overall operations.
A multi-key transaction is an execution of a cloud application that involves multiple data key items and comprises different operations.
David Zion, an accounting analyst at Credit Suisse First Boston, says a switch to actual returns would have taken collective S&P 500 income from continuing operations (which he defines as net income before extraordinary items, discontinued operations and accounting changes) down from $219 billion to $68 billion in 2001.
