Both lost money last quarter, and though they would turn profitable if provisions fell by 75 percent, a price to earnings of 10 times wouldn't even justify where they currently trade.
It said 2008 results would be affected by exposure to two banks that failed during the year, but it remained profitable and provisions would not have a significant impact on its capital and liquidity position.
While the bill prohibits lenders from roping their customers into a succession of new loans before the original debt is paid off — a common and profitable practice — this provision could be difficult to enforce.
Instead private firms want to take over services that they see as potentially profitable – especially the provision of simple elective surgery – the bread and butter of Britain's tiny private hospitals (average size 50 beds).
The question of how to make data provisioning profitable is relevant to entrepreneurs and academic research alike.
"Remaining Revenues" in the low-yield family-budget models indicate that full-market immersion would be more profitable than self-provisioning in all villages and all years, except Betsomanga in 2007 when commercial revenues (759,000 MGA) would cover only 60%% of the household's rice needs (1,252,000 MGA) (Table 6).
In either case, public financing reduces a firm's training costs, making a firm's training provision more profitable and thus also more attractive.
The latter might result in identifying profitable markets, modifying contractual provisions, attempting to reduce costs and increase income, reducing risks and exiting from non-performing contracts.
The results for 1998 reveal a healthy and profitable condition, and a prudent provision for bad loans in line with best market practices.Two years ago you predicted that the bank would be condemned "to stagger alone" because of "scanty profits and seemingly insoluble problems", and that the bank had "little prospect of reducing its costs".
Emphasising only the free nature of the service, without informing users of the "profitable ends that underlie the provision of the social network", and so encouraging them to make a decision of a commercial nature that they would not have taken if they were in full possession of the facts.
