Standard Chartered PLC's China unit reported profit of 883 million yuan, more than double what it earned the previous year.
Morgan's investment-banking unit posted a profit slide of 52% from last year and a revenue decline of 30%.
Its insurance unit made a profit of 272m euros, compared with a loss of 1.51bn euros a year earlier.
The auto insurance unit's profit increased by 16% in the first quarter, making it one of Berkshire's most successful arms.
Another year of sluggish return on investment (fell in calendar 2011 due to investments in price, e-commerce, etc.) as Wal-Mart places capital into a robust amount of international unit growth and profit dollars into lower prices.
Profit per unit is not as relevant if distribution is in the hundreds of millions.
At even a fraction of a penny profit per unit, it looks like a very successful venture.
In the third quarter the unit made its first profit in three years.
After posting initial losses from the PlayStation 3, Sony's games unit has reported a profit in the last two years.
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Put another way, because a weaker yen equals a stronger dollar, Toyota can demand fewer dollars from its American customers to achieve the same amount of yen in profit per unit.
Profit in that unit was flat, highlighting the cool-down in business spending across America.
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The greater ability to budget each unit based on their individual profit?
Ms. Black said profit margins on unit-dose detergents are constrained because the wholesale price is already high, so the retailer is wary of putting too much of a markup on it.
Discover represents 14% of Morgan Stanley's profit, and the unit's own profitability has improved in recent months.
The profit at the Chinese unit of HSBC Holdings PLC, the largest foreign bank in China with more than 130 outlets, rose to 3.42 billion yuan in 2011, almost four times that of the previous year, after rising 28% in 2010.
Last year Morgan lowered its pre-tax profit margin goal for the unit to 15% for the middle of 2013.
One of the parts of the business to do better was its home entertainment division, as losses on its TV sales declined, pushing the unit back into an 8m-euro profit.
Another scheme is the use of contracts for difference, in essence bets on the bank's performance, which reward employees according to the level of profit made by their business unit.
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The company's flash memory unit hasn't posted an operating profit since before 2004, and it continues to devote billions of dollars toward its Itanium chip, which never lived up to original hopes.
Wells Fargo again booked record-high quarterly profit even as its key mortgage unit lost ground.
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Business executive Kenny Chan bought a row house six years ago, lived there for three years, then sold it at a 100% profit so he could purchase his current duplex unit.
Whether or not the trips make a profit, they should help Match.com, a unit of Ticketmaster , attract more subscribers to its Internet dating service.
Part of the reason is that the chain is selling more unit-dose laundry detergent, like Tide Pods, which have a profit margin up to 5% lower than liquid laundry for retailers.
Panasonic (PC) announced that it was expecting a rebound during the current financial year and that it should turn an operating profit, due to cost cutting bolstering profitability and its television unit.
But it is a tiny contributor to Bank of America profit (the bank doesn't even break out the unit in its financials) prompting some speculation that Bank of America could sell the division and be done with it.
Profit for the television division--the company's largest unit--fell 54%.
However, we are fortunate that the sizable unit development we achieved in 2010 provides us with a head start toward achieving our 2011 profit growth.
The latter generates more profit on the sales revenue, again if enough units are sold (and unit sales do not decline too much due to increased prices).
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