Sentence examples for profitable having from inspiring English sources

On the downside, Paypal is not yet profitable, having lost $265 million in two-and-a-half years.

It is barely profitable, having earned only €681m ($901m) last year on assets of €1.6 trillion a return of just 0.04%.

According to the company's S.E.C. filings, ProFlowers is profitable, having generated $4.3 million in net income on sales of $89 million for the year ending June 30.

It is still in business here in Birmingham, and though it has sold off many of Mr. Scrushy's acquisitions, the company is profitable, having survived a very bad decade and the arrest of many of its executives.

Geron, which was formed in 1990 as an antiaging company, is still in the development stage and is not yet profitable, having lost about $500 million since its inception.

As investment axioms go, the old "sell in May and go away" is unusual: it is both self-serving for the City (brokers get an uncontested excuse for spending the summer at Lord's and Ascot), while it's also surprisingly profitable, having paid out in six of the past 10 years – during which time you would be up by more than 1,600 points from shorting the FTSE.

"We would like to get profitable, have a return on investment," Stern said.

LinkedIn, which is profitable, has more than 120 million users on its network.

Print, once so profitable, has been overrun by online sources, which earn little.

Analysts estimate that Groupon, which says it is profitable, has annual revenue of more than $500 million.

Eyestorm, not yet profitable, has sold $5 million worth of art since starting.