NEW YORK (Reuters) - Logitech International LOGN, the world's largest maker of computer mice, posted an 11.5 percent rise in first-quarter net profit on Monday, boosted by the strong performance of Harmony-brand remotes. First-quarter net profit rose to $29 million, or 16 cents...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Jeans maker Levi Strauss & Co on Tuesday reported a huge drop in quarterly net profit, hurt by costs from the roll-out of its enterprise resource planning system and lower sales in the Americas region. The private company, which...
Publishing company APN News & Media Ltd expects a flat net profit result for the first half of calendar 2008 as it continues to battle challenging market conditions.The publisher of more than 120 newspapers in Australia and New Zealand said net profit before non-recurring items for the six months...
MADRID (Reuters UK) - The world's largest onshore wind farm owner, Iberdrola Renovables IBR, posted first-half net profit up more than fourfold on Wednesday thanks to the incorporation of wind energy assets from Scottish Power. Net profit was 194.2 million euros (153 million pounds) on ...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc YHOO on Tuesday posted a nearly 19 percent fall in net profit, and net revenue short of lowered Wall Street expectations, as it faced a weakening economy and the distraction of Microsoft Corp's MSFT pursuit....
By Rhee So-eui and Marie-France Han SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's LG Display Co Ltd's quarterly net profit more than trebled thanks to strong demand for flat screens, but future earnings will take a hit as the global economic downturn curbs consumer...
BSR Australia Ltd, the parent company of Betta Electrical and Chandlers, has booked a pre-tax net profit of $800,000 despite rising costs and a consumer slowdown.The national franchisor's result for its 2008 fiscal year was in line with its expectations despite the slowdown in the second half, it said.The...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Online auctioneer eBay Inc EBAY on Wednesday posted a 22 percent rise in quarterly profit, edging above Wall Street estimates, helped by a surge in new listings and share repurchases by the company. The company gave a third-quarter outlook...
Online accommodation site Wotif.com Holdings Ltd has brushed off a slump in the tourism sector and expects a robust profit increase due to healthy demand for its website services.Wotif.com said it expected net profit this financial year to be around $34.5 million, a 30 per cent increase on last...
By Jim Finkle BOSTON (Reuters) - Oracle Corp ORCL reported a 27 percent rise in quarterly profit as sales of new software beat expectations, but the company gave a cautious outlook citing economic uncertainties, and its shares fell 3 percent. Oracle, whose shares...
CEO Comp: Their Personal Assets Should Be At RiskCEO Compensation - alternativesI am not sure that net profits would not be as easily manipulated as you claim stock prices can be - the CEO can time certain transactions for their accounting effect. Moreover, linking CEO compensation to net profit...
Dividend cover measures a company’s ability to pay dividends to stockholders. Specifically, it calculates how many times over the company’s net after-tax profits could have paid for dividends to its common stockholders.A similar calculation, payout ratio identifies the percentage of net profit paid to stockholders in the form of dividends,...
A profit and loss account (P&L) is a statement of sales income and expenditure over a specified period, and any profits or losses made. Essentially, the profit or loss is the difference between the money that comes in and the money that goes out. A P&L account does not show...
Return on Investment is one of several profitability ratios, one of the four basic classes of financial ratios—the others being liquidity ratios, activity ratios and debt ratios. This, the Return on Investment, often called a company’s return on total assets, measures the overall profit made on an investment expressed as...
This article describes set of ratios to assess the profitability of your business and changes in its profit performance. These ratios are probably the most important indicators of your business's financial success. Investors will be interested in these ratios insofar as they demonstrate the performance and growth potential of the...
InsideChips, the Internet channel forsemiconductor entrepreneurs and investors, has released the latest resultsof its quarterly financial performance benchmarking for publicly-heldsemiconductor companies for the Q1-2008 calendar quarter. The financialmetrics measured are revenues and net income for the latest reportedquarter, previous quarter and year-ago quarter. The InsideChips "STAR" ranking system looks at...
NetSol Technologies, Inc. ("NetSol") (NASDAQ: NTWK) (DIFX: NTWK), a worldwide provider of global business services andenterprise application solutions, today announced the Company will issuefinancial guidance for its fiscal year 2009 on July 28, 2008, reflectingthe period ending June 30, 2009. The Company's financial guidance for itsfiscal year 2009 will...
BCSB Bancorp's profit falls BCSB Bancorp Inc., the holding company for Baltimore County Savings Bank FSB, reported net income during its fiscal third quarter ended June 30 of $285,000, or 9 cents per diluted share, compared to net income of $599,000, or 19 cents per diluted share,...
Intel reports higher than expected profits *Intel kicked off the latest round of Wall Street earnings last night with higher than expected quarterly profits as the world's biggest chip maker was helped by strong sales of microprocessors used in notebook personal computers. Intel also raised its forecasts...
NEEDHAM, Mass. -- In the wake of the subprime mortgage crisis, banks are facing substantial profitability declines. US commercial bank net income fell almost 40 percent from Q1 2007 to Q1 2008 . New research from TowerGroup notes that current financial pressures underscore the importance of setting prices for new...
