What does everybody think about Exon Mobil from Texas reporting 340 Billion in Profits for 2005?
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I don't mind profits.  However, it illustrates how anti-trust law in the US failed.  Exxon was originally part of Rockfeller's Standard Oil over a century ago.  It was broken up due to the excessive influence that the company had as a monopoly. Over time, it has reformed back into the beast it was and, once again, is excessively influencing the markets.\n\nNotably, it should be criminal that Exxon's profits and still refuses to pay the jury's $5 billion award to fisherman from the Exxon-Valdez Oil Spill from 1989.  The abuse of the courts illustrates a complete disregard for the legal process as well as excessive corporate influence in the court system.
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Texaco merged into Chevron, and the combined company had assets totalling $125.8 billion as of December 31, 2005.\n\nYou can find the full income statement and balance sheet from their annual report: http://www.chevron.com/investor/annual/2005/financials_5financial.asp\n\nIf you really want just Texaco before the merger, that was 30.9B in 2000.  You can access the reports here: http://investor.chevrontexaco.com/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=tx&script=700
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OC is back in the market (i think it was in bankruptcy) and it is actively trading on the nymex. GRA my only issue with it is the income growth at a negative 42.70% that is way more than enough to keep me away from it. Not to mention a P/E ratio of 83.9 WOW! That is way too high. I wouldn't touch this with Osama's money.
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The gas prices can be helped if the pricks at exxon and all the other fuel manufacture's would lower the price.  They only reported a 50% increase in profit last year.  Yea I say they could do something about it!!!1
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OWENS AND MINOR INC [OMI]  $4.9 B & HENRY SCHEIN INC [HSIC]  $4.7 B Total Revenue...more on this link:\n\nhttp://biz.yahoo.com/ic/ll/754tor.html
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I'm sure you can find the more specific yourself.\n\nIn terms of the general company,\nUPS made 3.87B last year\nFDX made 1.45B\nDHL which is Deutsche Post World Net is kind of lagging behind.  I'm not sure of the exact income, but it's not that great.  More info here: http://www2.financialreports.dpwn.com/2005/ar/en/groupmanagementreport/revenueandearningsdevelopment/corporatedivisions
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Exploding stocks gave it a terrible rating, for its lousy chart action.\n\nhttp://explodingstocks.com/blog/?p=43
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no way!  I know that it is expensive for cell phone companies to run their networks, but they are making millions, if not billions, in profits each year!
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What you don't state is that they had a total revenue of 265.44B, meaning their net profit margin was about 7.5%\n\nI don't think that's out of line.\n\nIncome Statement\nRevenue (ttm):265.44B\nRevenue Per Share (ttm):76.22\nQtrly Revenue Growth (yoy):-14.90%\nGross Profit (ttm):35.80B\nEBITDA (ttm):42.37B\nNet Income Avl to Common (ttm):19.99B\nDiluted EPS (ttm):5.39\nQtrly Earnings Growth (yoy):-8.20%
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Because it has a comparatively low P/E ratio (19.5978)!!!\n\nand promising earnings (last 12 months) of $1.16/ share.\n\nNot bad for a Co. w/ a maket capitalization of 1.319 Bil.\n\n...............(CASY) on the NASDAQ ticker...............
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The two are independent.  400M was probably quite a bit, but it's a drop in the bucket considering that Exxon has sales of 370B last year.  So, if he gave all that back, it would have a .1% affect on gas prices.  So, maybe a few cents.\n\nHis "retirement package" was funded in large part through a sort of modified 401k, so it's not like Exxon just gave him 400M cash.  It was mostly stock options (which take value away from the shareholders, not away from the people buying gas) and some other company things, like use of their jet.\n\nWe pay a lot of gas prices for completely different reasons, but yeah, it's kind of annoying.  Oil companies make about 10% profit, so that's about all they can reduce gas prices by.  Not enough for most people anyhow.\n\nhttp://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5365439
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I think it woudl sure be a wake up call for the Middle East if suddenly they had a product that wasn't in so much demand! Consdering their whole economy is based on oil sales, they would be in deep.... I think it would be cool to go fuel up with a tank of Jim Beam! Even south of the border could start making more money, how much for a tank of Tequila? I know of several people that use bio-diesel, and just love being able to bypass fueling stations.
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Microsoft has been DEAD MONEY so long I can't remember when.  I lost 20 points a share on it quite a few years back.\n\nIt will be a very slow go for a long time, 1 to 2 days a week gaining, 3 - 4 days losing or hanging around even.  They do not have anywhere to go with core business, done their deal, unless they get something into Japan, Asia, etc. profitable.\n\nF and CAT will eventurally show much better long term return on investment.
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They use to be owned by Tenneco during that period. Here is the years history:\n\nhttp://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=TEN&a=00&b=1&c=1996&d=11&e=31&f=1996&g=m\n\nCheck here also as it goes back to 1996.  Read through the SEC filings.  \n\nhttp://www.shareholder.com/tenneco/edgar.cfm?Year=1996&DocType=
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Right now, Oil/Petroleum Companies.  They showed record profits in 2005.
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its a joke. they should have portest for the high gas prices. shell and the others are having record 30 billion + profits.
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Exxon Mobile of Texas, and George Bush of Texas. Well since gas prices have tripled, I would say yes.