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Core earnings. Core earnings report the performance of a corporation's core business operations, including producing and marketing the primary goods or services it sells, the cost of granting stock options, restructuring charges for ongoing operations, and meeting pension obligations. Equally important, core earnings exclude gains in the value of a company's pension account portfolio, certain one-time sources of income, such as the sale of an asset, and goodwill. In developing this measure, Standard & Poor's intention was to provide investors with a uniform, more transparent way to compare earnings across companies. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Core earnings - earnings before provisions for loan loss and taxes - expanded significantly, reflecting a continued increase in the company's earnings power, Brown said. 5 billion euros in sales and 500 million euros to core earnings to the quarterly figures. recorded higher core earnings and revenue in the first four months of the year from the same 2008 period, company chairman |
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