Rentokil 10-Month Profit Slumps 12%; Shares Decline
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Rentokil Initial Plc, the world&#39;s largest pest controller, said profit fell 12 percent in the first 10 months and will weaken further in 2005.
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Yukos shares have plummeted nearly 10 percent in early trade Friday on Moscow&#39;s ruble-denominated MICEX exchange. That came after an unconfirmed report that the embattled oil giant&#39;s
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The home-furnishings retailer reports lower earnings but beats expectations.
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Online travel store Lastminute.com LMC.L says earnings for its crucial summer quarter will come in towards the lower end of expectations, sending its stock down 5 percent in early trade.
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Realogy's shares have declined 10 percent since the end of July after it spun off from Cendant.
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Business & money: Company behind Magners and Bulmers sees its shares slump more than 12%.
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Shares in PSA Peugeot Citroen has slumped by 6.12 percent in early trading after the group reported a profits fall in the first half and cut its forecast margin in the second half.
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Blames loss of big client and economic blues Maxima Holdings yesterday saw its shares tumble by nearly 40 per cent after the managed IT services firm issued a profits warning about its forthcoming first half-year results.â¦
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French hotels group Accor SA on Wednesday reported a 24 percent drop in first-half net profit as its brands such as Sofitel and Motel 6 suffered from the uneven recovery in the global travel market.
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Fourth-quarter profit fell by 9 percent as energy prices declined, but the company still ended up with its third consecutive year of record earnings.
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U.S. home goods retailer Bed Bath & Beyond Inc  posted a lower quarterly profit on Thursday and warned its fourth-quarter results would be lower than expected, sending its shares down almost 10 percent.
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UK blue-chips fell heavily Thursday, with Rentokil slumping 22 percent after warning fourth-quarter profits for its City Link parcel service business are likely to be below expectations, and with Wall Street down in early trade.
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Rentokil warned investors to expect lower profits for 2005 after reported a fall in profits for most of the 2004 and revealed it was finally washing its hands of parts of its UK hygiene business.
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Profits take a plunge, but the stock price is stable.
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Quarterly net profit fell to $81 million, from $133 million a year earlier, as the company took charges related to restructuring and disposing of some vending machines.
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Rentokil Initial, supplier of services ranging from security guards and pest control to conferences and exotic plants, has ruled out breaking itself up, despite tumbling profits and a swirl of takeover speculation.
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Rentokil warned yesterday that its profits would fall next year, sending shares in the rat-catching to security firm down by more than 5 per cent to a four-month low.