Wendy's International posted second-quarter earnings on Thursday, and the fast-food chain reported a 1% drop in quarterly earnings, which topped Wall Street estimates, but the firm also dropped its profit view for the year on anemic sales at its eponymous burger joints and higher beef costs.
Wendy's International (nyse: WEN - news - people ) posted second-quarter earnings on Thursday, and the fast-food chain reported a 1% drop in quarterly earnings, which topped Wall Street estimates, but the firm also dropped its profit view for the year on anemic sales at its eponymous burger joints and higher beef costs.
If you think property is overpriced, it is difficult to profit from that view.
Gives a bad name to non-profit orgs, in my view and unfortunately to the transparency business too.
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When leaders believe that their sole purpose is to produce profit, they tend to view their customers as objects.
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Yet others, admittedly a minority, hold a more optimistic view of the profit motive in education as a means to improve educational outcomes.
The fact that TARP assistance to banks made a profit for the taxpayer supports my view on that.
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There are states that have sought to integrate a more holistic approach to corporate decision-making, but the traditional view of shareholder and profit-centricity prevails.
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Responding to claims that the closures were about privatisation and profit the chief executive said such a view was "completely inaccurate".
Particularly in view of the under-appreciated profit potential of its LCD glass operation.
This view is predicated on the assumption that profit margins will recover in the medium term.
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Adjusted profit of 16 cents per share was double the consensus view.
But my goal is simply to see things clearly, so that we can get a good view of what the future will look like, and profit from it.
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Worst of all, from the banks' point of view, these swings would have to be recognised in the profit-and-loss account for the year.
In the old, narrow view of capitalism, business contributes to society by making a profit, which supports employment, wages, purchases, investments, and taxes.
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It is easy to imagine circumstances in which a monopoly would charge less than the text-book profit-maximising price, either to extend its market (with a view to raising prices later) or to deter new entrants (a strategy known as limit-pricing).
Thanks to reporting by Bloomberg today, we are getting the view that JPM in London has run amuck trying to become a major profit center by specializing in corporate derivative transactions similar to those used in the lead-up to the mortgage meltdown in 2007-2008 that caused several banks to become insolvent and need to be bailed out.
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From the tax point of view it's not such a bad idea to run a museum as a for-profit venture.
It is a simple point of view, but fundamentally a company's value must be about what it can sell and how much profit it can make.
When the realization that you are hated by the entity you are pursuing for profit becomes the core of your existence within the financial markets, you approach things from a very different point of view.
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