The study's data indicate that drug companies' average profits are in the range of 13 to 14 percent.

The fact they each make average profits of about £125 per customer is just a coincidence.

Though not an outright success, the movie did make more than industry average profits, considering the tremendous rights amount which it fetched.

Following the public offering, Cosmos's share price skyrocketed, and the individuals involved in the scheme saw average profits of 66 million each.

For a given level of wages, this loss of productive efficiency would result in lower average profits.

Finally, in order to encourage the subjects to concentrate on profits we pay them their realized average profits.

Under a 1983 law, state officials each year evaluate the average profits of auto insurance companies over the preceding three years, Ms. Comfort said.

And so it has been with Benson, who swears up and down that the Saints make only average profits.

But for the full fiscal year, according to Zacks Investment Research, analyst estimates average profits of $2.80 a share.

Average profits in Greene King's tenanted business rose 5.9pc in the eight weeks to January 15.

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"Firms worship this number of average profits per partner the way C.E.O.'s worship earnings per share."

Gaining fast on Wachtell was Cravath, Swaine & Moore, with average profits per partner of $1.2 million, according to the study.

The only situation which is stable is one where all firms achieve their aspirations, which can only happen when all firms earn average profits.

Average profits per voyage were seventy percent and more than fifteen per cent of the Africans transported died or were murdered on the Middle Passage.

David Adams, who oversees the pension fund's investments, said he estimates that the sale performed at "inflation plus 3 percent, a shade under the average profits from our sales."

The average profits at Ms. Wilkinson's former law firm, Latham & Watkins, were $1.6 million per partner last year, according to The American Lawyer.

Compared to contemporary non-leasing prison systems nationwide, which recouped only 32 percent of expenses on average, convict leasing systems earned average profits of 267 percent.

A growth fund, which normally invests in a diversified group of companies whose earnings are expected to outpace average profits, is often thought of as the quintessential mutual fund.

This more than doubled premiums, reduced the average profits of healthy institutions by about 20 percent and created an enormous incentive for well-funded savings and loan associations to switch insurers.

Having thousands of botnet computers join the mining process will reduce the average profits of other miners, but it won't harm those who are merely using the network to make transactions.

Meanwhile, at companies where women make up 40 to 50 percent of the staff, average profits are double those where women account for 10 percent or less, the Economy Ministry reported last month.

Mr Charkin's research - difficult because of the very large number of publishers in the business, most unquoted - has shown him that average profits are usually less than 5% of turnover.

The average profits of the whole mining industry are also unpredictable, because metals prices are notoriously volatile and fluctuate with world commodity prices to a much greater degree than do oil and coal prices.