Mission Accomplished

POSTED BY: Khyron
UPDATED: Sunday, August 3, 2008 16:45
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KHYRON

Thursday, July 31, 2008 1:34 PM

Glad somebody's doing well.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/31/oil-profits-shatter-recor_n_1
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Oil Profits Shatter Records

HOUSTON — Exxon Mobil reported second-quarter earnings of $11.68 billion Thursday, the biggest quarterly profit ever by any U.S. corporation, but the results fell well short of Wall Street expectations and shares fell in premarket trading.

The world's largest publicly traded oil company said net income for the April-June period came to $2.22 a share, up from $10.26 billion, or $1.83 a share, a year ago.

Revenue rose 40 percent to $138.1 billion from $98.4 billion in the year-earlier quarter.

Excluding an after-tax charge of $290 million related to an Exxon Valdez court settlement, earnings amounted to $11.97 billion, or $2.27 per share.

Analysts on average expected Exxon Mobil to earn $2.52 a share on revenue of $144 billion, according to a survey by Thomson Financial. The estimates typically exclude one-time items.

The record-setting results were largely expected, given that crude prices in the second quarter were nearly double what they were a year ago. Natural gas prices were significantly higher too.

But investors expected even bigger profits Thursday, especially after Europe's Royal Dutch Shell reported a 33 percent jump in second-quarter earnings of $11.6 billion, which fell just shy of Exxon's own record earnings from 2007.

Shares fell 2 percent, or $1.68, to $82.70 in premarket trading.

Setting U.S. profit records has become commonplace for Irving-based Exxon Mobil. The $11.68 billion topped its own U.S. record of $11.66 billion, posted in the fourth quarter of last year. Right behind that was the $10.9 billion it reported to start 2008.

Exxon Mobil owns the record for at least the top six most-profitable quarters for a U.S. company, as well as the largest annual profit.

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AURAPTOR

Thursday, July 31, 2008 3:50 PM

As a share holder, I'm glad EXXON is doing well too!

It is not those who use the term "Islamo-Fascism" who are sullying the name of Islam; it is the Islamo-Fascists. - Dennis Prager

" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "

CHRISISALL

Saturday, August 2, 2008 12:58 AM

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
As a share holder, I'm glad EXXON is doing well too!

You got your share of the bounty then, you son of a whore...I'm a hairsplit from wantin' to see you riddled you with bullets...

Covered in blood but never touching it, eh?

Only half-kidding Chrisisall

PIZMOBEACH

Saturday, August 2, 2008 1:11 AM

Dang! That's pretty harsh Chris!

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AURAPTOR

Saturday, August 2, 2008 1:09 PM

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
Quote:
Originally posted by AURaptor:
As a share holder, I'm glad EXXON is doing well too!

You got your share of the bounty then, you son of a whore...I'm a hairsplit from wantin' to see you riddled you with bullets...

Covered in blood but never touching it, eh?

Only half-kidding Chrisisall

merci beaucoup, motherfucker

It is not those who use the term "Islamo-Fascism" who are sullying the name of Islam; it is the Islamo-Fascists. - Dennis Prager

" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "

ANTHONYT

Saturday, August 2, 2008 2:01 PM

Hello,

Only half-kidding, Chris?

Does that mean you were only half offensive?

I'm accustomed to better from you.

--Anthony

"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner

AURAPTOR

Saturday, August 2, 2008 4:40 PM

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" Covered in blood, but never touching it "

Where's that put the Imperial Federal Government then, eh ? Roughly 3x's worse, at the very least.

It is not those who use the term "Islamo-Fascism" who are sullying the name of Islam; it is the Islamo-Fascists. - Dennis Prager

" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "

CHRISISALL

Saturday, August 2, 2008 5:38 PM

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Originally posted by AnthonyT:
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Does that mean you were only half offensive?

Yeah, in re-reading it I can see how I should have put in a smiley here or there- it can be interpreted as not-so-funny....my bad.

Chrisisall

CHRISISALL

Saturday, August 2, 2008 5:43 PM

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Originally posted by AURaptor:

merci beaucoup, motherfucker

I had that comin' for the angry tone that I didn't entirely mean- I was so eager to paraphrase from Serenity

But the serious point is that I find bragging about having oil stocks that are making you money rather, er, in bad taste, seeing as American troops have died seeing to it that such is the case....

Sort of apologetic Chrisisall

AURAPTOR

Saturday, August 2, 2008 8:07 PM

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Originally posted by chrisisall:

But the serious point is that I find bragging about having oil stocks that are making you money rather, er, in bad taste, seeing as American troops have died seeing to it that such is the case....

Sort of apologetic Chrisisall

Last I checked, EXXON was an American company, not Iraqi. No one's died for these stocks, which were purchased, FYI, back in the 1950's.

Get over your lame a$$, self rightious self.

It is not those who use the term "Islamo-Fascism" who are sullying the name of Islam; it is the Islamo-Fascists. - Dennis Prager

" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "

CHRISISALL

Sunday, August 3, 2008 4:45 PM

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Originally posted by AURaptor:

Last I checked, EXXON was an American company, not Iraqi. No one's died for these stocks, which were purchased, FYI, back in the 1950's.

Get over your lame a$$, self rightious self.

You totally miss the apology AND the point...but just a moment here...why get so upset anyway, I mean if it isn't applicable........
Call my Mom a whore & I go 'meh' if I respond at all- but YOU AU went all flamey...I wonder if I hit too close to reality for ya...?

Accidental marksmanisall