The phrase "adequate profitability" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the sufficiency of profit levels in a business context, indicating that the profitability meets the necessary standards or expectations.
Example: "The company's financial report indicated that it achieved adequate profitability to sustain its operations for the upcoming year."
Alternatives: "satisfactory profitability" or "sufficient profitability".
Target costing is a cost management system designed to develop products with a level of profitability deemed adequate to justify their production.
Standard & Poor's, the ratings agency, said the figures showed that Nomura still had "adequate capital, ample liquidity and profitability, given its strong business base in the domestic market".
"They had a large Web-based model that was not currently profitable, and all the issues that the dot-coms were facing in terms of having adequate financial resources to reach profitability," said Mark W. Allen, an analyst who follows EarthWeb for Robinson-Humphrey, the securities firm.
Unlike their medical counterparts, who receive substantial support from the NHS for investment in both capital and labour expenditure, high-street dental practices operate as small independent discrete enterprises, where profitability and an adequate cash-flow are essential for survival.
Deloitte is "withholding judgment" on Alitalia's 2003 financial figures and without adequate measures to restore the carrier's profitability, management needs to examine other solutions, including filing for insolvency, Deloitte said in a statement.
Moody's kept a third bank, BNP Paribas, under review, but said its profitability and capital base provided an adequate cushion to support its exposure to Greek, Portuguese and Irish debt.
"While these initiatives represent a step in the right direction, they clearly have not been adequate enough, as is evidenced by the dramatic decline in profitability and underperformance compared to peers," Jeffrey C. Smith, Starboard's chief executive, wrote in the letter.
Sustainable agriculture has been recognized as agriculture that combines modern technological and innovation with proven resources conservation and food and fibre production practices to protect environmental quality, maintain and enhance profitability, preserve rural communities, and produce a safe and adequate supply of food of food for current and future generations.
The business wanted only an adequate supply of milk and eggs: there was no need to worry about profitability.
Simulated analysis indicates that adequate competition in the retail market is necessary to limit the aggregator's monopolistic profitability.
