profitable
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Starlink provided the largest share of SpaceX’s revenue in 2025 — $11.32 billion of its $18.8 billion — and was its only profitable segment, with $4.42 billion in net income.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
Its investors now include Jane Street, the savvy quant-trading firm that ranks among Wall Street’s most profitable, some of the people said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
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
"In 2011, 2012, 2013, the jet fuel prices were over $130 a barrel, and the industry was profitable," he told a press conference in Singapore in April.
From Barron's • Jun. 6, 2026
On the other hand, lead was easy to extract and work, and almost embarrassingly profitable to produce industrially–and tetraethyl lead did indubitably stop engines from knocking.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
Vocabulary lists containing profitable
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