Sentence examples for preferred profit from inspiring English sources

Amazon's preferred profit number excludes interest expense.

They do this through the technique of waiving the management fees and converting them into a preferred profit standing in the funds.

The company reported $39 million in operating income before depreciation and amortization, the company's preferred profit metric, compared with $56 million for the entire company.

NAB's preferred cash profit measure for the period, excluding some accounting items, met forecasts and came to $A3.32bn.

· The statement comes on a day when it was revealed that Mr Byers has drawn up an emergency "plan B" to keep Railtrack in administration for an extra six months, while Network Rail - the government's preferred not-for-profit successor - is readied to take over control of the railway infrastructure.

The company said that by its preferred method of measuring profits, earnings fell 26.5percentto to $46.3 million, or 30 cents a diluted share, compared with $63 million, or 37 cents a diluted share, in the period a year earlier.

Apollo's so-called economic net income, private equity's preferred measure of profitability, swung from a loss in 2008 to a profit of $581 million in 2009.

If we want to tax capital income, a preferred method treats corporate profits as accruing to owners when profits arise and then taxes this income only once — whether it is paid out as dividends or retained by companies.

So, when Yelp reports profits, its preferred metrics discount non-cash costs such as share based compensation.

Still, Daniels was able to boast a £2.2bn profit on his preferred "combined business basis" measure of performance.

The round-trip efficiency and operating profit of the preferred system designs were approximately 68.5% and $53.5/cycle, respectively.