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Nicor Inc.’s third-quarter profit rose to $9.2 million, or 16 cents a share. A year earlier, its profit from continuing operations was $9 million, also 16 cents a share.
A year earlier, a gain of $2.5 million, or 4 cents a share, from Nicor’s discontinued petroleum exploitation operations, Nicor Oil & Gas, resulted in net income of $11.5 million, or 20 cents a share.
Naperville-based Nicor said third-quarter revenues rose to $185.5 million from $171.5 million a year earlier.
For the first nine months, earnings from continuing operations increased to $72.3 million, or $1.29 a share, from $63.7 million, or $1.12, a year earlier.
