profitable
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As for Stérin, he says he has never met the investor, who "bought a 30% stake purely because he could see we were very profitable".
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026
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
SpaceX’s most profitable unit is its Starlink space-based broadband business, built on satellites launched by the company.
From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026
The slave trade had become less profitable during the Revolution as slaveholders relied more on the natural increase of their enslaved population.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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