profit
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"I don't like doing the prices too high or too low, all my profit has gone back into the shed. So I've not actually got anything out of it myself."
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026
SpaceX will fetch a price/sales multiple of 92 times at the IPO price but doesn’t make a profit.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
Anthropic is seemingly about to report a quarter’s worth of profit but would need more to qualify.
From Slate • Jun. 5, 2026
Old Dominion is an LTL leader with better profit margins and less debt.
From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026
Assuring her that he had come up with a plan from which only great profit would result, Holmes persuaded her to transfer the deed to her Fort Worth land to a man named Alexander Bond.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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