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, 2021-12-16
  • Disney’s fourth quarter earnings were a mix of good and bad news.
    — Frank Pallotta, CNN, 2022-11-08
  • Stock prices tend to track with corporate earnings over the long term.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 2020-08-13
  • Last quarter’s earnings show that the reminders will linger for quite a while.
    — Jinjoo Lee, WSJ, 2020-08-11
  • Banks earnings are a good place to get an early read on how consumers are faring.
    — New York Times, 2022-07-29
  • Those who select a winner on that first bet find the earnings in their accounts as cash.
    — Xl Media, cleveland, 2022-04-18
  • Stitch Fix’s third quarter earnings call will be held on June 8.
    — Shwanika Narayan, SFChronicle.com, 2020-06-02
  • Still, those earnings were down 1.7% from a year earlier.
    — Arkansas Online, 2023-01-13
  • Disney Plus was one of the highlights of the earnings report.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 2021-08-13
  • Ties in the points standings are broken by earnings in non-restricted stakes.
    — Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 2020-08-15
  • The Fool responds: A split doesn’t change a price-to-earnings ratio.
    — Dallas News, 2021-07-04
  • In the four years since the last election, Facebook’s earnings and user growth have soared.
    — Barbara Ortutay and David Klepper, The Christian Science Monitor, 2020-10-19
  • Nike had less than stellar news for sneakerheads in its earnings call on Sept. 23.
    — Courtney Vinopal, Quartz, 2021-09-24
  • 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, 2022-06-10
  • Below, in an earnings call with investors in March 2020.
    — NBC News, 2021-12-02
  • The firm has slowed hiring, Coleman said in the Q&A portion of the earnings call.
    — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 2022-12-12
  • Those three combined for six Triple Crown wins, and a bunch of great memories (and earnings, and stud fees, etc.).
    — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 2020-11-30
  • 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, 2021-11-05
  • Gannett is set to host an earnings call Thursday at 8:30 a.m. ET.
    — Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY, 2022-02-24
  • The graduate reaps the benefit of the loan — the degree which will lead to higher earnings — and the taxpayers pick up the tab.
    — Krista Kafer, The Denver Post, 2020-01-16
  • 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, 2022-07-08
  • When/if the money starts rolling in, Curley says that Podhero will reach out to podcasters to send them their share of the earnings.
    — Boone Ashworth, Wired, 2020-06-10
  • Ahead of the earnings report shares of General Mills were up 6.7% over the last 52 weeks.
    — Kristen Leigh Painter, Star Tribune, 2020-09-23
  • 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, 2023-01-06
  • For Mulder there already have been over $2 million in NBA earnings.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 2022-07-15
  • The five-year rule is used to determine if the earnings, or interest, from your Roth IRA will be tax and penalty free.
    — David Kudla, Forbes, 2021-06-14
  • While Uncle Sam used take a cut of the earnings, a new law stopped the practice after the 2016 Rio Games.
    — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 2021-07-20
  • From the Black Death to Covid-19, deadly plagues have a tendency to raise hourly earnings—for the grisliest of reasons.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 2021-05-21
  • Buried in the fine print of Signature Bank’s third-quarter earnings was a hint of the financial storm that could be about to break over the U.S. economy.
    — Washington Post, 2020-11-11

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