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operating income

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noun

  1. revenue from business operations after operating expenses are deducted from gross income.


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In an October letter to the landlord, a small-business lender and four MCA funders, the lawyer said Triways owed the MCAs more than $700,000, and its net operating income was about $120,000 after rent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Alphabet fell over 12% to $281.73 despite logging a marked increase in operating income after Google’s search revenue growth waned due to the less lucrative nature of AI searches.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

The table also includes projected growth rates for the companies’ operating income, forward P/E and consensus price targets.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

The division recorded operating income of $431 million for the quarter on revenue of $7.56 billion, reversing a $1.26 billion loss in the second quarter on $2.56 billion in revenue.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

In the financial statements wrongly recorded as operating income was the sum of £24.5m, and £49.414m was wrongly excluded from operating expenses.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

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