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net profit
noun
- the actual profit made on a business transaction, sale, etc., or during a specific period of business activity, after deducting all costs from gross receipts.
net profit
noun
- gross profit minus all operating costs not included in the calculation of gross profit, esp wages, overheads, and depreciation
Word History and Origins
Origin of net profit1
Example Sentences
In a March 21 earnings call, the world’s largest state-owned oil company reported a 44% decline in net profits in 2020 thanks to the pandemic.
Few proponents had considered that actual net profits for the state represented only a fraction of gross sales, at the time around 45 percent, and today about 27 percent.
Nearly all publicly traded hospitals tracked by the news outlet Axios posted a net profit in their most recent quarter.
Despite the economic impact of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Transsion Holdings, the Shenzhen, China-based phone maker, reported a 33% jump in net profit for the first half of 2020.
This year, Ant earned a net profit of $3 billion in the first six months of the year alone—a jump of more than 1,000% compared with the first six months last year.
In the second quarter of 2013, Apple raked in a net profit of $6.9 billion.
Net profit was $11.6 billion, or $12.30 per share, nearly double their level last year and also above Wall Street expectations.
Last quarter the company did $20.9 billion in revenue and cleared $6.6 billion in net profit.
Google became a company with $30 billion in revenues—and with obscene (nearly 30 percent) net profit margins.
Net profit was $3.19 billion, down from $3.4 billion last quarter.
Net profit to Scattergood, eighteen thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
These companies require millions of capital, and they save the waste and are satisfied with a net profit of a few cents per ton.
When in peace we shall have made as much net profit as there was wealth lost in the war, then we shall be a solvent people.
A pair of swans would cost about the same as a good cow, and might make about the same net profit.
In the spring I sowed three thousand acres of poppies, and now I've made forty thousand roubles net profit.
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