How does this provide context? The Pentax numbers are sales, the Olympus numbers are profit. Sales <> profit. It reminds me somewhat of the sales people I work with who are always happy to talk about the turnover they have with their clients, but when you ask about profit they go strangely quiet.
-- Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Digital Image Studio > Sent: 11 May 2007 03:51 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Pentax Full-Year Profit Exceeds Company's Forecast > > "Net income quadrupled to 3.6 billion yen ($30 million) during the > year ended March 2007, exceeding the company's 3.3 billion yen > forecast" > > "Sales rose 11 percent to 157.3 billion yen, missing the company's 159 > billion yen forecast," > > However: > > "Pentax booked gains of about 1.6 billion yen from the sale of a > subsidiary's building and real estate to Daikyo Inc." > > Just to put this in context see the performance of Olympus: > > "The imaging equipment division, where digital cameras serve as the > mainstay, recorded a whopping 500% leap in operating profit to 27.2 > billion yen last fiscal year, a sharp turnaround from a loss of 24 > billion yen in fiscal 2004 and a minimal profit in fiscal 2005." > > -- > Rob Studdert > HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA > Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO > http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ > Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
