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profitable

[prof-i-tuh-buhl] / ˈprɒf ɪ tə bəl /


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Shah responded, external by agreeing that profitable businesses deserved recognition but argued that entrepreneurship itself should be encouraged because it creates jobs and involves taking risks.

From BBC • Jun. 23, 2026

His soft wheat yield was half what was needed for the crop to be profitable, he said.

From Barron's • Jun. 23, 2026

The incremental sales should be very profitable for GSK, which leads Bernstein to estimate Nuvalent could lift GSK’s 2036 adjusted EPS by 18%.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 23, 2026

The company isn’t profitable, rendering price-to-earnings comparisons useless.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 18, 2026

But then they wound up doing something quite different from—and, ultimately, more profitable than—what everyone else who bet against the subprime mortgage market was doing: They bet against the upper floors—the double-A tranches—of the CDOs.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis




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