These figures must mean that profit expectations are going to go up for this year. It has really gained a huge amount of market share. This is real sales growth.

It's a savage profit warning for the UK, with numbers for 2006/07 likely to shift materially below current expectations. You are probably looking at cuts of between 30 and 50 percent.

Investor expectations about profit gains at brokerages grew stronger.

What we're going to try to do heading forward is to match profit expectations that are out there ... not to exceed them, ... to invest that money back into, hopefully, accelerated growth.

The company delivered a profit report that surpassed even the most optimistic expectations.

The operating profit guidance is clearly below (expectations).