1. Operating profit grew by 14%, excluding exceptional items.

2. The unit posted a single-digit increase in operating profit.

3. Operating profit fell an undisclosed amount.

4. Operating profit fell to ￡10.5m from ￡11.1m in 1991.

5. Operating profit at both brokerage firms exceeded analysts' consensus forecasts.

6. As a result, it is now being reorganised. Operating profit fell to ￡10.5m from ￡11.1m in 1991.

7. The company posted a 122 percent rise in operating profit for fiscal 1995, aided primarily by the acquisition.

8. It posted lower operating profit at its power systems and motors-operations businesses.

9. Retail operating profit rose 30 % to 32. 7 million.

10. Operating profit rose as a percentage of sales to 17. 0 percent from 16. 5 percent.

11. An operating profit of ￡184m enabled 69 % of the interest due on loans to be funded out of turnover totalling ￡666m.

12. The power systems unit had a drop in operating profit even though revenue rose in the double digits[sentencedict.com/operating profit.html], Bunch said.

13. Mr Roller said Dresdner's operating profit would have been higher but for increased write-offs in its securities operations.

14. Daimler said its operating profit in 1995, excluding one-time charges and writeoffs, improved.

15. Speciality Chemicals division saw a slight rise in operating profit from ￡223m in 1990 to ￡225m.

16. Operating profit leaped 70 % to 6.56 billion euros.

17. We made an honest operating profit of 925 million.

18. "Operating profit is rising more rapidly," he said.

19. Net Operating Profit After Tax.

20. Return on Invested Capital measures a companies net operating profit as a percentage of the leverage that they are using.

21. EVA is net operating profit after taxdeduction of capital input for the cost of parts.

22. It is the net operating profit after taxes minus the economic cost of a company's current assets.

23. At constant exchange rates operating profit would actually have risen 19 per cent.

24. Free cash flow equals the difference between net operating profit after tax and net investment.

25. So, the star of the group was the oil division, which saw operating profit from continuing operations up 40%.

26. The big chip group reported a 25 % jump in fourth-quarter sales and higher operating profit.

27. Shenzhen Development Report 2008 revealed that the preparation before the trip and - tax operating profit grew 41 %.

28. The Economic Value Added (EVA) is a measure of surplus value created on an investment, namely the difference in amount after the NOPAT (net operating profit after taxes) subtract cost of capital.

29. Economic Value Added (EVA) is economic profit that is Net Operating Profit After Tax deducted Weighted Average Capital Cost (include equity and debt capital cost).

30. Despite record sales last year, the company reported a 1.3 % fall in operating profit.