1.   Profits have slowly increased since we started the business three years ago.

2.   Our overall operating profit has increased by some seventy percent over the same period last year.

3.   If they are right profits increase.

4.   AmeriLink Corp. said fiscal first-quarter profit increased fivefold as the builder of cable television systems posted record sales and almost doubled its operating margin.

5.   As these economies grow, their companies get stronger, their profits increase and so do the returns to investors.

6.   Auto stocks had a generally strong day amid expectations by traders that profits will increase in the next two quarters.

7.   Barely a year ago, outgoing Chief Executive Edzard Reuter told shareholders they could expect net profit to increase one-third.

8.   Both CEOs touted the merger as a boon for shareholders, predicting that the stock of the combined company will soar as costs are cut and profits increase.

9.   Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. and other drugmakers led U.S. stocks higher on optimism that profits will increase from a spate of new drugs.

10.   But if profits increase consistently over those years, the value of company stocks should also rise and produce substantially greater financial rewards for investors.