Sentence examples for maintained its profit from inspiring English sources

Merck maintained its profit outlook for the year but reduced its forecast for revenue, citing exchange rates and other factors.

Caterpillar maintained its profit forecast for the full year.

Despite its ongoing challenges at home, Caterpillar maintained its profit forecast for the full year.

For its fiscal year, which ends in February, the company maintained its profit outlook of $1.68 to $1.76 a share excluding items.

Nokia, the world's No. 1 handset maker, lowered its sales outlook for the quarter to 7.1 to 7.4 billion euros ($6.94 to $7.23 billion) from an earlier target of 7.2 to 7.6 billion euros; the Finnish firm maintained its profit outlook.

If the company can maintain its profit and sales momentum, Wall Street will view Mr. Smith's tenure as a success.

But, she said, the company may be able to maintain its profit growth because some of its businesses did not turn in exceptional gains.

"Taking into consideration the difficult retail climate, WH Smith has done well to maintain its profit recovery," said brokerage Seymour Pierce yesterday in a note to clients.

The cuts are part of Ford's drive to maintain its profit forecasts despite worse-than-expected effects from Detroit's price wars.

To maintain its profit margins Next has pushed up its prices by 8%, a steep increase designed to cover this week's rise in VAT to 20% as well as other cost pressures such as the surge in the cotton price and higher labour costs in China.

The company said the cost decreases in DRAM output allowed the company to maintain its profit margins.