How to Use earnings in a Sentence

earnings

plural noun
  • So what does the earnings report mean in the short-term?
    Patrick Lucas Austin, Time, 16 Dec. 2021
  • The firm has slowed hiring, Coleman said in the Q&A portion of the earnings call.
    Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Disney’s fourth quarter earnings were a mix of good and bad news.
    Frank Pallotta, CNN, 8 Nov. 2022
  • In states where gas now costs at least $5 a gallon, that works out to 50 gallons worth of gas on the low end ad earnings.
    Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 10 June 2022
  • The HSTech was down 3.2% ahead of Alibaba's earnings call.
    Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Those who select a winner on that first bet find the earnings in their accounts as cash.
    Xl Media, cleveland, 18 Apr. 2022
  • The attorney wrote that her client also sold items such as candy on the streets for the church and turned her earnings over to IVM.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Lennar seemed to suggest as much in its earnings report.
    Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Gannett is set to host an earnings call Thursday at 8:30 a.m. ET.
    Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2022
  • Since the markets have barely begun to price in a recession and so a fall in earnings, that would hurt.
    James MacKintosh, WSJ, 19 June 2022
  • This will help folks get credentials and skills and the earnings to enter the market for home buying.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 May 2022
  • Banks earnings are a good place to get an early read on how consumers are faring.
    New York Times, 29 July 2022
  • Below, in an earnings call with investors in March 2020.
    NBC News, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Still, those earnings were down 1.7% from a year earlier.
    Arkansas Online, 13 Jan. 2023
  • That would happen in July, during the June 2022 earnings call.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Average hourly earnings were up 5.1 percent over the past 12 months, a slight drop from earlier in the year.
    Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2022
  • The most startling fact about Jordan’s career earnings, apart from the amount itself, is how little of it comes from his time on the court.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 5 Nov. 2021
  • But in the end, the big news of the earnings report was a major change in direction on self-driving vehicles.
    Matt McFarland, CNN, 26 Oct. 2022
  • According to Uber, drivers saw the highest hourly earnings in New York City at $37.44.
    Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 20 May 2022
  • The company is set to report full earnings later this month.
    Denise Roland, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Target and Lowe’s are set to report earnings Wednesday.
    Anna Hirtenstein, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2022
  • The slowdown of the hard seltzer market reared its head today in the Boston Beer Company's earnings call.
    Hudson Lindenberger, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Now, that number will increase to 225%, meaning borrower’s will be able to hold on to more of their earnings per month.
    Solcyre Burga, Time, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Zynga’s share price crashed 18% the day after that earnings release and kept dropping.
    Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 10 Jan. 2022
  • For Mulder there already have been over $2 million in NBA earnings.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 15 July 2022
  • Hence, buying a claim on the revenues or the earnings has to be correlated with the inflation rate.
    Cristina Lourosa-Ricardo, WSJ, 21 May 2022
  • The hit to earnings from such deep discounting was unavoidable.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 20 Aug. 2022
  • Udemy said in an earnings call Wednesday that revenue grew 21% last year.
    Jinjoo Lee, WSJ, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Adjusted earnings will be 15 to 40 cents a share in the period, the airline said Friday in a statement that also detailed fourth-quarter results.
    Dallas News, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Authorities would know if a taxpayer failed to report those earnings.
    Julie Weil, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2022

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