Sentence examples for slight earnings from inspiring English sources

Hanging over both Ford and G.M. is the fact that analysts are forecasting slight earnings in a year with strong sales, as well as fears that sales will slow next year.

The slight earnings surprise wasn't enough for investors.

In after-hours trading, following its slight earnings miss, HP is down sharply, losing around 2percentt in regular trading.

The March to April change in wages and earnings hearkens back to the September to October trend of minimal wage increases and a slight earnings dip.

American shoppers clothing their kids for the coming school year lifted J.C. Penney to a slight earnings surprise but couldn't rally its stock, which is beaten down by fading buyout hopes.

American shoppers getting their kids fashionable for the upcoming school year lifted J.C. Penney to a slight earnings surprise and rallied its stock on a day of big losses on Wall Street.

Dan McBride: Its growth is going to be relatively slight, and earnings are expected to go down.

GM's new chief executive, Fritz Henderson, has said the company will break even on earnings before interest and taxes by next year, and even make a slight profit in 2011.

The department store had a slight drop in earnings for the second quarter with earnings slowing to $73.0 million, or 16 cents per share, compared with $74.0 million, or 17 cents per share, in the year-prior period.

Even the mighty Hyundai Motor, which controls three-quarters of South Korea's car market through its own brand and a subsidiary, Kia, experienced a slight softening in earnings, though it remains robustly profitable with $246 million in net income for the quarter.

That said, a drop in rates should be a slight help to earnings.