‘This drop in operating profit caused pre-tax profit before accounting for exceptionals to fall from a profit of £59.1m last year into a loss of £2m this time.’
‘The local management is hoping for a better full year out-turn than last year, but it is not stated whether this is before or after exceptionals are taken into account.’
‘For the six months to June 30, analysts are forecasting pre-tax profits before exceptionals of £13.6m against £12.1m last time, with earnings per share of 20.8p, and dividend per share of 11.9p.’
‘BPI, which has experienced a surge in its share price, is expected to announce pre-tax profits before exceptionals of £7.8m. Earnings per share will come in at 19.6p, and dividend per share will be 7p.’
‘Since then, oil has gained 20%: implying that the fuel charge has now risen to €7.2m, a sizeable chunk when 2004 profits before exceptionals amounted to €19m.’
‘If he has managed to get rid of all the bad news, amounting to £1.3bn of exceptionals, which led to the company reporting a net loss of £1.02 bn, then there should be room for considerable upside in the group's fortunes over the next year.’
‘Gym operator LA Fitness is expected to post full-year pre-tax profits before exceptionals of £8.7m on Wednesday, against £7.2m, according to consensus analyst forecasts.’
‘The Edinburgh company is expected to announce pre-tax profits before exceptionals of between £41m and £42m - in line with market forecasts - due mainly to its property developments.’
‘Throw in the write-downs on Imperial Holly and Greencore has incurred €310m worth of exceptionals since 2000, a sum equivalent to almost 50% of its current market cap.’
‘Pre-tax profit before exceptionals and investment in digital media and the free Metro title rose 14% to #104 million in the 26-week period ended July 2.’
‘The figure emerged as ICAP reported a rise in pre-tax profits to £117.5m from £83.8m, after exceptionals and goodwill write-offs.’
‘The consensus forecast for the year for profit before tax, goodwill and exceptionals is £905m compared with £836m the previous year, with all divisions expected to show an increase in profitability.’
‘RBS reports results on August 5, with profits before goodwill and exceptionals forecast to come in at £3.52 bn against £3.15 bn in the same period the year before.’
‘We base our group profit share on pre-tax, pre exceptionals which were down £10 million.’
‘Analysts expect profits before tax and exceptionals to be between 866m and 867m, up 9% on last year.’
‘Profit before tax and goodwill, but after exceptionals, is expected to hit £71m, up from £29.5m in 2002, according to a survey of analysts by Reuters.’
‘According to a consensus of analysts' forecasts, the group will post profits before exceptionals and goodwill of about £100m, up from £75.8m last time.’
‘At the half-year results in February he revealed that pre-tax profits before exceptionals slipped from £1.29 bn to £1.24 bn.’
‘The bank posted a 12% hike in pre-tax profits before exceptionals to £6.45 bn.’
‘The group is tipped to say pre-tax losses before exceptionals have halved to £2.5m from £5.7m previously.’
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