profitable

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Like its wildly profitable bets on Apple stock and Coca-Cola before that, Berkshire still has plenty of scope to take huge, non-controlling positions in publicly traded companies.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

“A portion of the quarter-on-quarter growth represented contracted TPU sales to external customers, a new, potentially large, and profitable business for Google.”

From Barron's • May 1, 2026

“The landlords are not the ones to actually make the land profitable unless they’re doing something with that land,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

But it’s unclear whether there are investors willing to put up capital for a golf league that has yet to demonstrate a profitable business model, or how many golfers would stick around through the uncertainty.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 30, 2026

They had the essential feature of a Ponzi scheme: To maintain the fiction that they were profitable enterprises, they needed more and more capital to create more and more subprime loans.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis