Cargill ends fiscal year with doubling in Q4 profits
US food and edible oils giant Cargill ended its fiscal year with a fourth quarter in which its profits more than doubled, the company announced this week.
Cargill posted fourth-quarter net earnings of US$691 million for the three months to the end of May, up from $327 million a year ago.
Excluding the results from fertilizer firm The Mosaic Co., in which Cargill owns a majority stake, fourth-quarter profits were up 87%.
For the full fiscal year, Cargill’s profits dropped 22% to $3.33bn. Excluding Mosaic, Cargill’s earnings rose 14% to $2.07 billion. Mosaic had dampened Cargill’s earnings in 2009.
Fourth-quarter revenues rose 11% to $28.1 billion, although annual sales fell 6% to $107.9 million.
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shame they did it at the expense of our farmers – yet again!!
Stopping beef imports might have helped them but did not help our farmers bottom line.
something is wrong in this report , ” Fourth-quarter revenues rose 11% to $28.1 billion, although annual sales fell 6% to $107.9 million ”
107.9 million ????
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