Sentence examples for depress profitability from inspiring English sources
Delivering its verdict on the plan, Moody's said it could "heavily depress profitability over the next few years".
The negative outlooks reflect Standard & Poor's view that Toyota's depressed profitability and cash flows have led to deterioration of the company's financial profile to a certain extent, and that recovery in the company's financial profile may be delayed due to the challenging operating environment, according to TradeTheNews.com.
Although a more recent study by Bryson et al. (2011) concludes that British unions still do depress firm profitability where there is active collective bargaining.
For the last decade, low prices depressed the profitability and value of investments in Canada's oil patch.
Together, these could work wonders for profitability in depressed Japan.
"We expect pork supplies to decline by early next year if profitability remains depressed, resulting in higher prices, which will fuel food inflation".
Buffett's scepticism over Tesco's fortunes is shared by one of Britain's star investors, Neil Woodford, who warned last year that the sector could be hit by a prolonged period of "depressed margins and crushed profitability".
Way to depress people, Facebook.
And it's not just the recession depressing corp revenues, though that's part of it, because corporate profitability is once again soaring.
Any brief spurt of profitability is inevitably followed by a mad frenzy of plant additions, and then by another round of overcapacity and depressed prices.
