profit stream

At first this provided a good profit stream, despite the criticisms of some analysts.

Without a certain profit stream, experts say, financing for the projects will be difficult to obtain.

But that figure is dwarfed by the loss of the revenue and profits stream over the life of the field.

At the end of the day, it amounts to the same thing, as the discounted profit stream is the equity value of the company.

From the investment economics perspective, the allure of an 80-year profit stream to the plant owner/operator is a great attraction.

The company has long aimed at diversifying its revenue and profit stream, building up asset management, equity and advisory businesses.

Fears of corruption among police officers on drug cases is fed by public knowledge of the enormous profits streaming through drug-infested neighborhoods.

Internet services provided to other companies like Toys "R" Us account for the company's only other rich profit stream beyond books.

In 1991, the firm was trying to diversify its profit stream by hiring aggressive young traders to help build its Government bond group and other operations.

The second obstacle is opposition from private insurers, who would be understandably reluctant to abandon multibillion-dollar annual profit streams.

Stewart and Zhao (2000) defined the business model as "a statement of how a firm will make money and sustain its profit stream over time."

Even with profits streaming in - and last year was the network's most profitable ever - CBS did not diversify or invest in any significant way.

"If the profit streams are not what they foresee, the franchise system will not increase as they want," said the association's Mr. Tucillo.

(The stock market should, for example, internalize a Republican success with instantaneously lowered prices, reflecting the expected depressed profit streams because of the result; see also chapter 5.)

"Instead, [small business lending] would be a useful profit stream in its own right, competing for attention with other profit and revenue streams that all have lower returns."

It stems from the fact that stocks are valued not just by how much a company earns today, but by the profit stream that they are expected to generate in the future.

Kelly Kimberly, the spokeswoman for Mr. Lay, Enron's former chairman, said that both the growth of the prudency reserves and their subsequent release into the company's profit stream were appropriate.

Five Star Dairy, a 900-cow dairy farm in Elk Mound, Wis., anticipates a similar profit stream from the $1.2 million Microgy digester it installed in 2004.

The profit stream and merger success set the stage for subsequent merger and acquisition activity by the company, and indeed funded the losses of some of the product groups that were subsequently acquired.

Some competitors see this as a guaranteed profit stream for the next decade, since the Government agreed to pay an interest rate that was initially 2.25 percentage points above the average cost of deposits for California savings institutions.

Economists use the term "double taxation" in reference to the tax on dividends due to the fact that dividend income is paid out of corporate profits and represent a portion of the profit stream owned by shareholders.

The University of California is famous for its loud protests and raucous rallies, but the most recent dispute here is more like something out of a business school case study: a raging debate over outsourcing, equity interests and guaranteed profit streams.

In what officials called a major attack on the Mafia and its profit stream, the younger Mr. Gotti and 39 other men were charged in Federal District Court here with a string of crimes, including extortion and fraud.

The rush of investment banks to replicate the Goldman model - using internal private-equity funds as a profit stream and as a means to fertilize its investment banking and asset management businesses - is the latest example of copycat economics on Wall Street.

Even so, Standard & Poor's has been decidedly uncomfortable with Deutsche's situation, noting that its traditional fixed-line telephone business is under heavy competitive pressure and that its newer profit streams were from "less stable business segments" like Internet and wireless services.