The phrase "adequate profits" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in discussions about business performance, financial analysis, or economic conditions to indicate a level of profit that is sufficient for sustainability or growth.
Example: "The company reported adequate profits this quarter, allowing for reinvestment in new projects."
Alternatives: "satisfactory profits" or "sufficient profits".
Without the incentive of adequate profits, power producers have been reluctant to increase output, analysts say.
When the private sector is deleveraging and interest rates are low, banks normally struggle to make adequate profits.
The would-be competitors, who all promised robust competition, discovered that they could not price retail power below this artificial ceiling and still make adequate profits.
There are "soon-to-be-public companies," Mr. Ballmer wrote last month in his annual e-mail message taking measure of his company and the technology industry, "that will deal, as we have, with flat stock price for a number of years while they build adequate profits" to justify their stock price.
This form of regulation came about over 70 years ago in order to provide adequate profits to monopolies for their massive investment in plant and equipment.
"Auto companies have adequate profits," Cui Dongshu, the secretary general of the government-affiliated China Passenger Car Association told the New York Times in a phone interview.
Zebco reels no longer commanded an "adequate profit," the statement said.
And that he makes what he feels is a perfectly adequate profit because he recouped his construction costs long ago.
The landlord claims the buildings are losing $1 million a year and cannot return an adequate profit — defined by the city's administrative code as 6 percent — if they remain.
Roughly 15 million households cannot get broadband from their phone or cable provider because the companies have been slow to expand their high-speed networks in areas where there are not enough customers to generate what they regard as an adequate profit.
Gone is the artists' housing: the housing will now be divided more or less equally between subsidized units for the neighborhood and market-rate ones, to ensure an adequate profit for the developers, among them, Bruce Ratner (who also sits on the board of BAM).
