It could be delisted if it doesn't return to a profit by September.
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But that one fell victim to rapidly developing technologies, the recession, and the collapse of the consumer electronics market, and is unlikely to return a significant profit.
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After posting a net loss for year ending Mar. 31 on weak demand, Sega Sammy is forecasting a return to profit this year, helped by the popularity of a pachinko machine featuring manga character Hokuto Ken and the release of a new Sonic the Hedgehog videogame.
Earlier this month, RBS reported a return to profit after racking up big losses last year.
The final three months of the year marked a return to profit growth.
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We will continue to adjust to the prevailing market conditions and expect a return to profit at some point in 2003.
Nokia said it would scrap its dividend to buy more time for a turnaround, despite a return to profit in the fourth quarter.
Always in decline there had been times when the various new leaders had short-term success in improving performance, with a return to profit in 1993.
The transformation of Tata Motors had begun with the searing loss in 2000, but it continued with a return to profit in the fiscal year ending March 2003.
Nokia, once itself the leading mobile phone manufacturer, reported on Thursday a return to profit in the final quarter of last year, with strong sales of its new Lumia smartphone, its first major product launch since the company teamed up with Microsoft.
When investors short a stock, they borrow shares, hoping the price falls so they can buy the stock back later at a lower price, return the shares and make a profit.
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At the heart of this groundswell is a return to passion not mere profit, and a renaissance period of the crafts and craftsmanship that once fueled our nation and the world.
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But, after a terrible year, the outlook brightened in its latest figures which showed a modest return to profit.
While a business typically measures performance in profit and return, social entrepreneurs also take into account a positive return to society.
Based on the actual successes of the group's entrepreneurial member companies, Croissance Plus argued in the National Assembly that if the same Ffr100 billion was instead put into a privately managed venture-capital fund, it would create 1.8 million skilled private-sector jobs over five years--and return the Ffr100 billion, with a profit, to the taxpayers.
Forty of Sony's top executives, including Kazuo Hirai, the chief executive since last year, are to give up bonuses worth 30-50 per cent of their pay after they failed to keep a promise to return the division to profit.
First, they must carry a pro rata profit actually earned by the fund, instead of a fixed return being tied up with their face value.
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At the most opportune moment, and not more than several years after being acquired, each company must be sold to a willing buyer at a significant profit in order to return to investors their original capital, together with sufficient profit to provide for the carried interest to become payable.
Sony's statement confirmed a previous forecast that the company should return to profit for the financial year to end-March.
Corbett scores companies on nine financial measures, including debt as a percentage of assets, profit margins and return on assets.
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Over the trailing twelve months the company generated a return on shareholders equity of 26%, and net profit margins of 23%.
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To turn to a specific, currently relevant example, if fixed-interest bonds are bad, but equity investments are acceptable, then what if an investor buys a non-voting equity instrument whose return is based on profit shared between him and the venture--with any profit above 6% given to the venture as a "reward"?
The return on equity is a measure of profitability that looks at how much profit a company generates with each euro of capital invested by shareholders.
But the Treasury got a 5% dividend from the banks in return, plus warrants on their common stock that could be sold later at a profit.
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Snowling ticks off other advantages for Sallie: low interest rate risk (given government guarantees), profit growth expectations in the 15% range, a rich return on equity (net income divided by average book value) of 38%, and a cheap valuation relative to history and the broader market.
TechNexus will invest in startups alongside corporate clients to keep incentives aligned (and profit on the upside) while taking a healthy management fee in return.
By keeping the yield curve flat, QE2 pressures banks to make more higher-return loans as investing in treasuries and short-term facilities provides a lower and lower profit margin.
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But private-equity firms are anxious to return money to their profit-starved investors and take some cash for themselves too, after a barren few years.
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