The word "profits" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to money that a company or business makes after paying out expenses. For example: "The company reported a 4% increase in profits this year."
And it was not alone: firms like Ford, Standard Oil, and Bethlehem Steel employed huge numbers of well-paid workers while earning big profits.
Platinum refiner Johnson Matthey dropped 102p to £23.06 as third quarter profits fell 19% to £84.3m, hit by lower sales of catalytic converters for car exhaust systems in Europe and weak demand in Japan.
He replaces Peter Sands, who has overseen a 30% fall in profits and a $300m fine from US authorities for breaches of money-laundering rules.
The prosaic business of lending to business and serving customers delivered lower profits and was done by the banks' drones.
Worldwide sales from the two drugs are expected to reach £3bn by January, but the company rejected claims it was exploiting the pandemic – stressing that profits would be much lower once development costs were taken into account.
If a better consumer environment does mean more drop-through [to profits], the impact on consensus earnings per share could be significant".
A year ago more than a third of the bank's investors opposed its remuneration report, which saw bonuses increased despite a 30% fall in profits.
Goldman reported its results after JP Morgan Chase – the biggest US bank – announced a 12% rise in first-quarter profits, powered by its investment banking arm, and as Citigroup revealed a 21% rise in profits to $3.9bn £2.6bnn).
In contrast to the misery in which they trade, Libya's people smugglers make big profits.
But it would be wrong to read too much general market cheer into Kingfisher's better-than-expected 22% rise in interim pre-tax profits to £439m.
We've had Shell's first profits warning for a decade.
