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Mining company, Centennial Coal (ASX:CEY) have announced a 28 percent fall in company net profit to $51.5 million, down from $71.2 million. The company pinned the reason to lower export prices in US dollars and the appreciation of the Australian dollar. Advertisement: read more

Diversified mining company, Oz Minerals (ASX:OZL) have announced that it will reverse an impairment charge of $201.1 million which does not form part of operating earnings and is a non-cash adjustment. The action will increase net profit after tax for the upcoming half year net profit after tax reports due for release on August 25. Advertisement: read more

Oil producer, Woodside Petroleum (ASX:WPL) have posted an increase of almost 40 percent in net profit after tax for the first six months to June 30 of $US 901 million or 39.5 percent. Woodside Petroleum Dividends WPL have declared a dividend for the first half. Interim dividend is 50 cents per share, fully franked, an increase of 4 cents on the corresponding period 1H 2009. Advertisement: read more

Australian entertainment company, Village Roadshow (ASX:VRL) released their profit report yesterday, posting an earnings growth to $117.2 million for the 12 months to June 30. Village Roadshow has sold its Greece and Czech Republic businesses, obtaining a $25.6 million profit. Advertisement: read more

Australia's largest steel maker, BlueScope Steel (ASX:BSL) have returned to profit and have resumed paying out dividends. BSL has posted a net profit of $126 million for FY2010 ending June30, compared to a net loss of $66 million for the previous corresponding period. BSL was one of the low performing stocks last week. BlueScope Steel Dividends Advertisement: read more

Australia's largest property developer, Lend Lease (ASX:LLC) have released their profit results. Full year net profit is $345.6 million, reversing a net loss in the previous fiscal year of $653.6 million. For the FY09-10 fiscal year ending June 30 Lend Lease saw their revenue down from $14.79 billion to $10.57 billion. Operating profit after tax stood at $323.6 million. Lend Lease Dividends Advertisement: read more

Australian Gold and Copper mining company, Newcrest Mining (ASX:NCM) have announced record profits, more than doubling their net profits to $556.9 million. For the year ended 30 June 2010 Newcrest reported Underlying Profit of $763.7 million, an increase of 58% over the prior year result of $483.1 million. The company pinned down the reasons for the significant increase in profit to "increased gold production, lower operating costs and higher commodity prices." Advertisement: read more

Low Performing shares for this week of the bottom 10 Australian shares which are in the ASX 200. Low performing company shares this week included: ENERGY WORLD CORPORATION LTD, TELSTRA CORPORATION LIMITED., JAMES HARDIE INDUSTRIES N.V., COMPUTERSHARE LIMITED, AUSENCO LIMITED, GUNNS LIMITED, LINC ENERGY LTD, MIRABELA NICKEL LIMITED, DOWNER EDI LIMITED, WOTIF.COM HOLDINGS LIMITED. Advertisement: read more

Bottom stocks for this week of the bottom 10 Australian shares which are in the ASX 100. Among the bottom stocks this week included: TELSTRA CORPORATION LIMITED., JAMES HARDIE INDUSTRIES N.V., COMPUTERSHARE LIMITED, DOWNER EDI LIMITED, TRANSFIELD SERVICES LIMITED, TABCORP HOLDINGS LIMITED, UNITED GROUP LIMITED, LEIGHTON HOLDINGS LIMITED, BLUESCOPE STEEL LIMITED, WORLEYPARSONS LIMITED. Advertisement: read more

Hot stocks for this week of the top 10 Australian shares which are in the ASX 200. Among the hot stocks this week included: AXA ASIA PACIFIC HOLDINGS LIMITED, ALUMINA LIMITED, ISOFT GROUP LIMITED, Myer Holdings, SIGMA PHARMACEUTICALS LIMITED, TRANSURBAN GROUP, Eldorado Gold Corporation, LYNAS CORPORATION LIMITED, AVOCA RESOURCES LIMITED, JB HI-FI LIMITED. Advertisement: read more

Top stocks for this week of the top 10 Australian shares which are in the ASX 100. Among the top stocks this week are: AXA ASIA PACIFIC HOLDINGS LIMITED, ALUMINA LIMITED, Myer Holdings, TRANSURBAN GROUP, JB HI-FI LIMITED, SANTOS LIMITED, COCA-COLA AMATIL LIMITED, TELECOM CORPORATION OF NEW ZEALAND LIMITED, DAVID JONES LIMITED, BENDIGO BANK LIMITED. Advertisement: read more

Australian telecommunications company, Telstra (ASX:TLS) have given a "flattish" outlook to its revenue for the 2011 financial year. The company also warned it expected a high single digit percentage fall in earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation. Company shares fell as much as 9 percent on the news. Telstra Dividend Telstra has declared a final dividend of 14 cents a share, fully franked. Advertisement: read more

Find out about Australian Dividends Dividends are payments made by a corporation to its shareholder members. It is the portion of corporate profits paid out to stockholders. When a corporation earns a profit or surplus, that money can be put to two uses: it can either be re-invested in the business (called retained earnings), or it can be paid to the shareholders as a dividend. With dividend imputation, if a company pays company tax, the dividends carry a tax credit which can be offset against your tax liability on the dividends. If a company pays the full company tax rate, the dividends are fully franked. Advertisement: read more

Beverage producer, Coca Cola Amatil (ASX:CCL) have posted a record half year net profit at $212.7 million, up 12.1 percent compared the corresponding half yearly results of last year. Earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) was up 10 percent to $373.8 million. Earnings per share is 28.3 cents, up 10.1 percent. Coca-Cola Amatil Dividends Advertisement: read more

Australian toll road operator Transurban (ASX:TCL), have reported a net profit of $59.4 million for the financial year. An improvement on a loss of $24.6 million from the previous year. Transurban Dividends Advertisement: read more

Australian airline, Qantas (ASX:QAN) have reported a fall in profit which was largely due to a 5.4 percent decline in revenue. A bigger loss was avoided due to a reduction in costs, down 4.3 percent excluding fuel expenses. Pre-tax profit for the year was $377 million, within its guidance of between $300 million and $400 million. Advertisement: read more

Australian banking company, Commonwealth Bank (ASX:CBA) announced a record $6.1 billion net profit after tax, up 42 percent on the previous year. However the bank's shares dropped 3 percent or$1.56, to $51.19 (almost $9 below the stock's peak this year). The market jitters was caused by weaker second half performance.

• Cash NPAT of $6,101 million - up 42 percent on prior year;
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Hearing implant systems manufacturer, Cochlear (ASX:COH) has announced a 19 percent increase in net profit at $130.5 million. The company has also announced a final dividend, which is 60 percent franked at $1.05.

• Net Profit after Tax (NPAT) of $155.2 million, up 19%.
• Successful launch of new cochlear implant system Cochlear™ Nucleus® 5 with second half CI unit sales up 20% and full year up 13% to 21,023 units
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Australian IT and consulting company, Oakton (ASX:OKN) has reported its profit results seeing a 42 percent increase in full year profits at $20.2 million. Oakton ended the year with 1,115 staff, down 2 percent. Staff count in India was up 10 percent to 120. Advertisement: read more

Australian beef cattle producer, AAco (ASX:AAC) has reported a net loss of $12.2 million in the 2009-2010 fiscal year to June 30. The net loss is less compared to the previous year when Australian Agricultural Company reported a loss of $30.3 a year. AAco - Australian Agricultural Company Financials Advertisement: read more