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Double-digit Earnings Increases Were Common in First Quarter
by WILLIAM J. STORCK, C&EN NORTHEAST NEWS BUREAU
May 23, 2005
| A version of this story appeared in
Volume 83, Issue 21
| SALES | EARNINGSa | CHANGE FROM 2004 | PROFIT MARGINb | |||||
| ($ MILLIONS) | SALES | EARNINGS | 2005 | 2004 | ||||
| Air Products | $2,003.3 | $175.3 | 7.9% | 24.2% | 8.8% | 7.6% | ||
| Albemarle | 510.0 | 25.2 | 58.4 | 52.7 | 4.9 | 5.1 | ||
| Arch Chemicals | 301.3 | 3.6 | 25.4 | 56.5 | 1.2 | 1.0 | ||
| Cabot | 527.0 | 43.0 | 5.4 | 13.2 | 8.2 | 7.6 | ||
| Cambrex | 110.5 | 4.1 | -2.6 | -47.4 | 3.7 | 6.9 | ||
| Cytec Industries | 563.9 | 38.9 | 35.8 | 17.2 | 6.9 | 8.0 | ||
| Dow Chemical | 11,679.0 | 1,353.0 | 25.5 | 188.5 | 11.6 | 5.0 | ||
| DuPont | 7,431.0 | 967.0 | -8.0 | 0.3 | 13.0 | 11.9 | ||
| Eastman Chemical | 1,762.0 | 155.0 | 10.3 | 287.5 | 8.8 | 2.5 | ||
| Engelhard | 1,026.7 | 58.0 | -1.3 | 15.3 | 5.6 | 4.8 | ||
| Ferro | 452.5 | 5.9 | na | na | 1.3 | na | ||
| FMC Corp. | 552.4 | 42.8 | 9.2 | 207.9 | 7.7 | 2.7 | ||
| H.B. Fuller | 353.0 | 5.8 | 10.8 | 26.1 | 1.6 | 1.4 | ||
| Georgia Gulf | 645.4 | 38.7 | 29.9 | 107.0 | 6.0 | 3.8 | ||
| Great Lakes Chemical | 420.4 | 9.3 | 17.4 | 78.8 | 2.2 | 1.5 | ||
| Hercules | 505.1 | 20.5 | 6.4 | 30.6 | 4.1 | 3.3 | ||
| Lubrizol | 970.1 | 52.5 | 67.9 | 57.7 | 5.4 | 5.8 | ||
| Monsanto | 1,909.0 | 373.0 | 27.4 | 44.6 | 19.5 | 17.2 | ||
| PolyOne | 576.7 | 19.1 | 2.5 | nm | 3.3 | def | ||
| PPG Industries | 2,493.0 | 186.0 | 10.1 | 56.3 | 7.5 | 5.3 | ||
| Praxair | 1,827.0 | 195.0 | 19.3 | 18.9 | 10.7 | 10.7 | ||
| Rohm and Haas | 2,022.0 | 159.0 | 10.4 | 39.5 | 7.9 | 6.2 | ||
| Sigma Aldrich | 399.8 | 64.4 | 8.6 | 3.4 | 16.1 | 16.9 | ||
| Stepan | 264.3 | 3.2 | 19.4 | -20.0 | 1.2 | 1.8 | ||
| Terra Industries | 450.0 | 8.1 | 24.7 | 3.8 | 1.8 | 2.2 | ||
| TOTALc | $39,302.9 | $4,000.5 | 12.8% | 55.0% | 10.2% | 7.4% | ||
| a After-tax earnings from continuing operations, excluding significant extraordinary and nonrecurring items. b After-tax earnings as a percentage of sales. c Excludes Ferro, for which first-quarter 2004 data were not supplied. Percentages calculated from combined sales and earnings. na = not available. nm = not meaningful. def = deficit. | ||||||||
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