Sentence examples for profitability dipped from inspiring English sources
The company's core earnings, which it considers a more telling indicator of its true profitability, dipped slightly last year to $2.06 a share and are below what they were in 1997.
And return on equity - a critical figure used to gauge a firm's profitability - dipped into the single digits for many firms, a far cry from the 20 percent and 30 percent figures common in the precrisis era.
This fact, combined with gold's internationally fixed price, produced a perennial problem of profitability, which increased exponentially as the reef dipped away to the south to depths of hundreds, and ultimately thousands, of feet.
Morgan Stanley returned to profitability in 2010, but the chief executive James Gorman's pay dipped by almost half from 2009 as the firm's stock declined.
Revenue at the conglomerate dipped 4%, to $37.44 billion, driven by a leap in profitability at its GE Capital Unit, as well as gains in NBC Universals profits and in its energy infrastructure business.
Feeling the heat while your startup teeters on the edge of profitability and begins to dip into the negatives isn't all that uncommon a scenario.
They've been at or near profitability for a long time, dipping back into the red to grow headcount and infrastructure.
