“This was another strong quarter,” Mark Thompson, the chief executive of The Times, said during an earnings call, although he added that the market for print advertising remained “challenging.”

Mr. Thompson praised the “sheer breadth” of journalism at The Times, comparing the company to a “multi-ocean Navy” because of its ability to break and cover international and national news while also dedicating resources to investigations. He also cited The Daily, The Times’s popular podcast, which he said had been downloaded more than 100 million times since February.

The sound, if not earth-shattering, financial results were announced as The Times fundamentally reshapes itself into a business no longer rooted in newsprint. In the last several months, it has eliminated its copy desk, offered buyouts to employees and reorganized the structure of its newsroom.

But from a financial perspective, The Times appears to be moving in a positive direction.

The $64 million in print advertising revenue represented just 17 percent of the company’s total revenue in the third quarter, Mr. Thompson said, and was $22 million less than revenue from digital subscriptions. He said The Times was on track to reach its goal of $800 million in annual digital revenue by 2020, and he reiterated that he did not think it was unreasonable to project that the company would one day have 10 million subscribers.

Operating profit for the quarter increased to $33 million, from $9 million in the same period last year. Adjusted operating profit rose to $57 million, from $39 million. (Adjusted operating costs in the quarter rose slightly, to $329 million from $324 million compared with the third quarter of 2016.)