pretax earnings

基本解释

For the first time in a couple of earnings periods, the bank exceeded expectations, netting a $11.5 billion pretax profit for the first half of 2011, up from $11.1 billion a year ago.
2011年上半年，汇丰银行的税前利润达115亿美元，同比增长4亿美元。这是几个收益期以来，汇丰银行的表现首次超出预期。

Back out the capital gains, and you have an insurer trading at 74 times pretax earnings.
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This business also has a lot of operating leverage, with pretax earnings soaring 41% last year on an 18% increase in revenue.
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The Value Line Investment Survey reports that Qualcomm receives approximately 30% of pretax earnings from their CDMA technology segment, and approximately 70% from licensing.
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