profitability
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Investors look to gross margin to assess a company’s profitability, as the metric measures the company’s ability to retain revenue after paying for the cost of making its products.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026
“We are confident in our ability to sustain very strong revenue growth and expanding profitability over the coming years.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
Investor fears about the vast sums being invested in the artificial intelligence complex have cast a pall over trading floors in the second half of the year, with many questioning firms' profitability.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
This defensive positioning comes despite the strong profitability of the S&P 500 which is showing 31% third-quarter earnings growth.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026
This is profitability even by modern Wall Street standards: if the Dow Jones average had risen a similar amount since World War II, the index would now stand at over twenty thousand.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
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