pretax earnings

New World expects pretax earnings of about $225 million from the sale.

During that period, the firm reported $73 million worth of pretax earnings, or 41 cents a share.

During the first six months of the fiscal year, that change lowered pretax earnings by $19 million.

Pretax earnings, hurt by a special restructuring charge, plunged 90 percent.

They had aggregate pretax earnings of about $868 million.

Pretax earnings for pharmaceuticals were set at $20 million.

The self-employed are supposed to contribute around 5 percent of their pretax earnings to the state health service.

Phibro's pretax earnings in 1995 increased almost 5 percent; they did not decline.

Goldman reports only pretax earnings as the individual partners settle their own taxes.

The company said that $1 billion of the pretax earnings would come from cost savings and new business opportunities created by the merger.

Other major steel makers projected pretax earnings that would be down anywhere from 64 to 84 percent.

Its pretax earnings, however, were up 11 percent.

Chemical estimated that the trims would save the bank about $150 million a year in pretax earnings.

A restaurant, he said, is judged successful if it returns 15 to 22 percent of its pretax earnings to investors.

One of these criteria calls for acquired companies to have pretax earnings of at least $75 million.

The move, an accounting treatment, allows the company to recover about $300 million of the excess and report it as pretax earnings.

Analysts said the price, at 17 times pretax earnings, was high, but within the range of what business publications are fetching.

Since 1987, Guinness's pretax earnings have more than doubled.

The company added that it expected Skynet's operations to add approximately $30 million to 1998 pretax earnings.

Ben & Jerry's foundation also donates 7 1/2 percent of pretax earnings to charity.

Today the interest burden has zoomed to more than 50 cents for every dollar of pretax earnings.

Some 80 local companies currently pledge 5 percent of their pretax earnings each year to charitable and artistic causes.

Mr. Pottruck estimated that pretax earnings would take a $150 million hit.

Salomon Brothers contributed $261 million to the company's pretax earnings of $278 million.

The pretax earnings were higher than analysts had expected, and even after taxes they were within the range of forecasts.