Profits
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Total income or cash flow minus expenditures. The money or other benefit a non-governmental organization or individual receives in exchange for products and services sold at an advertised price. Collective form of profit.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To benefit (somebody), be of use to (somebody).
Example sentence: I hope there will be some good news and some good profits, and people will realize we have a lot of outstanding executives, and a lot of companies that are doing a good job, and those are good companies to invest in.
Earnings
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Wages, money earned, income.Business profits.Gains on investments; returns.
Example sentence: We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being.