profitable
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For some indexes, companies also need to be profitable.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
One of them is that to get into the S&P 500, a company has to have been profitable in its most recent quarter, as well as over the past year in the aggregate.
From Slate • Jun. 5, 2026
Its launch segment is a solid business that was profitable before suffering an operating loss of $657 million in 2025.
From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026
It also considered exempting megacap companies from financial viability criteria requiring them to be profitable before being included in S&P indexes.
From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026
“The university will be more inclined to reward by pay or promotion him who makes some addition to knowledge of an immediately profitable kind rather than him who works for knowledge itself,” he said.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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