This is a "next time" item for sure!
Those figures exclude one-time items for acquisition amortization effects and special items.
The chain said it would earn $3.39 to $4.12 a share before one-time items for the fourth quarter.
Net income excluding one-time items for the year fell to $30.5 million, or 27 cents a share, from $66.1 million, or 59 cents a share, a year earlier.
Long lead-time items for the project included procurement and shipment of the vaccine and cold chain inputs.
Shell showed evidence of its strength on Thursday when it reported net profit, adjusted for one-time items, of $7.5 billion, up 3 percent from a year earlier.
Excluding one-time items, profit for the fourth quarter of its fiscal year, which ended May 31, was higher than the 90-cent estimate of analysts surveyed by Thomson First Call, Tenet said.
The estimate of analysts polled by Thomson Reuters, which excludes one-time items, was for a profit of 5 cents a share.
To measure the change in the quality of reporting over time, PRISMA items for two periods of equal duration were compared.
Analysts typically do not account for one-time items in their estimates.
Those $9.1bn in one-time items included $3.3bn for buyouts of US factory workers, $2.8bn for its exposure to bankrupt former parts unit Delphi and $1.6bn to write down lease values.
