profit
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The projected operating profit of $1.11 billion is up 33% from a year earlier and beat a FactSet-compiled estimate.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026
It added: "Wireless Festival, in its desperate quest for profit, defended the invitation until the end. That is shameful, and its sponsors should continue to stay away."
From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026
Samsung Electronics anticipates an over eightfold increase in Q1 operating profit to 57.200 trillion won, driven by memory-chip demand.
From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026
The profit forecast beat a FactSet-compiled consensus estimate of 1.336 trillion won for the first quarter of 2026.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026
Previously Hall had invented a machine capable of typing in Braille, the Hall Braille Writer, which he never patented because he felt profit should not sully the cause of serving the blind.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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