for profit

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Akamai’s previous full-year guidance from February called for profit 0f $6.20 a share to $7.20 a share on a revenue range of $4.4 billion to $4.55 billion.

From Barron's • May 7, 2026

Collectors who bought the work of up-and-coming artists hoping to flip them for profit got badly burned.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026

The problem for CME’s stock, however, is that Wall Street was anticipating an exceptional first-quarter earnings report, so estimates for profit and revenue had climbed during the quarter.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 22, 2026

Shoshana Zuboff’s 2019 book, “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism,” put a name to what people had been feeling: tech companies extracting value from data about our lives and reshaping our behavior for profit.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

Technically all fiction books are fabricated tales written for profit, but I let dude have his moments.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas