{"id":844559,"date":"2026-08-03T14:51:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T14:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/844559\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T14:51:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T14:51:21","slug":"fortis-earnings-rise-significantly-in-q2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/844559\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortis Earnings Rise Significantly in Q2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/fortis-inc-building-downtown-st-johns.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Fortis Earnings Rise Significantly in Q2\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>Earnings are up at electric and gas utility Fortis, which is based in St. John\u2019s and is the parent company of Newfoundland Power.<\/p>\n<p>Second quarter earnings rose to $396-million, up from $284-million the same period a year ago. Shares rose to 78 cents from 76.<\/p>\n<p>David Hutchens, President and CEO, says on a year-to-year basis, earnings to date were $897-million, an increase of $14-million compared to the first half of last year.<\/p>\n<p>Fortis has almost 10,000 employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (VOCM News) Earnings are up at electric and gas utility Fortis, which is based in St. John\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":844560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,269876,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-844559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}