The phrase "profitable target" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a goal, activity, or investment that is likely to bring a financial gain or other positive result. For example: "The company identified marketing to young professionals as a profitable target market for their new product."
Our national game is a fashionable and profitable target.
Even as Enron insiders have become Washington's favorite and perhaps most politically profitable target, Houston's lawmakers have been slow to join in.
It's our C.E.O.'s choice as the most profitable target for the next fiscal year, and we are assured that it will go better than some other C.E.O.
Mr. Keegan acutely observes, "Though the truth was not perceived until much later in the war, and then only by a few professional Northern soldiers of brutal imagination, the Southern mind was the only profitable target in the Confederacy".
An older boy, odd and constantly blinking, had been his preferred companion, and Sunil even now viewed the dustbins in the cargo area with a proprietary eye, as they had been the boys' most profitable target.
According to the complaint, when one of the companies touted by Clover was reported in a letter from Mr. Figueroa to have gone bankrupt, he went on to offer the investors who had lost their money another deal in which he would "seek to locate, contract with, finance and acquire a number of individual profitable target companies".
The company's scientists reasoned that other members of these protein families might also prove to be highly profitable targets.
The reasoning: Cybercriminals don't bother to target Macs because their 8% U.S. market share is too low to make them profitable targets.
For instance, it is possible that the flies use cues other than sound to choose hosts once the general location of the host is established; the females, which are on average larger than males, might be easier or more profitable targets for the flies.
Chief Executive Anne Mulcahy Anne Mulcahy had predicted the company would be profitable in the third quarter, then pushed the profit target back to the fourth quarter.
16 However, opponents contend that specialty hospitals have lower quality and higher costs, since they are for-profit and specialise in only the most profitable services, target healthier patients who are more well-off and induce demand for their specialised services.
