capital expenditure
Example Sentences
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The miner kept its cash cost and capital expenditure guidance unchanged.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Tencent’s capital expenditure more than doubled from a year earlier to 52.78 billion yuan in the second quarter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
When the reporting season first kicked off, they said that investors’ main focus would still be capital expenditure outlooks among artificial-intelligence hyperscalers, with more interest in evidence of returns on those investments into the technology.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
Oppenheimer and his colleagues pointed to the derating of dominant technology companies, whose lower price-to-earnings ratios have been driven by anxiety over the returns that capital expenditure might yield in the future.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
Such a term, though in common use, is not strictly correct, for the capital value vanishes when the ore is extracted, but in conformity with current usage the term "capital expenditure" will be adopted.
From Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration by Herbert Hoover
