It reported a 23% rise in first-half pretax profit, but its outlook statement disappointed investors.
The NYSE requires its potential listees to show a pretax profit for three years.
Back in 2010, Gorman told investors the pretax profit margin would reach 20% by mid 2013.
For the most recent six months, HP's 10.7% average pretax profit margin in services exceeds IBM's 9.7%.
Oracle's handsome pretax profit margin--at 42%, thanks to the ax of Safra Catz--leaves Ingres room for inroads.
In its most recent quarter, the company had pretax profit of about 2%.
"Business income" insurance covers lost pretax profit plus ongoing expenses such as wages.
Earnings, projected to grow nearly 43% this year, remain anchored by Perwira Affin Bank, which contributes 75% of pretax profit.
The pretax profit margin, 18.1% during 2006's third quarter, fell slightly year-over-year.
FamilyMart fell 8.1% on profit-taking after announcing that it expects consolidated pretax profit to reach an all-time high for the 2014 fiscal year.
But thanks to a virtual monopoly on communications, it generates a pretax profit margin of 47%, almost double that of U.S. phone giant SBC Communications.
With 55% of BET's lineup coming from free music videos supplied by the record labels, the channel musters pretax profit margins of 40%, far higher than those of most cable channels.
Sageworks calculates net profit margin using pretax net profit, with owner compensation added back in to reflect true operational profits.
The higher the earnings yield defined as pretax operating profit divided by enterprise value, or the sum of stock and debt the more attractive the stock is from a valuation standpoint.
The higher the return on capital which he defines as pretax operating profit divided by the sum of net working capital and net fixed assets the more effectively a company is using its capital to generate profit.
Every month each of the company's 226 branches pays out 20% of its pretax, prebonus profit to workers.
And water handling is profitable: This side of ITT enjoys a pretax, preinterest profit margin of roughly 15%, versus auto's 5%.
Our figures are pretax, account for firm expenses and profit-sharing arrangements, and exclude gains or losses stemming from ownership in the hedge fund firms themselves or from investments held outside the managed investment pools.
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The myth of levitating profit margins breaks down when you use pretax numbers.
Profit margins stats show the highest level since the late sixties on both pretax and after tax measurements.
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