The phrase 'relatively profitable' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something as being more profitable than something else, but not necessarily highly profitable. For example, you could say, "The company had a relatively profitable quarter compared to the last one."
Transatlantic services, which are relatively profitable, are unlikely to be significantly trimmed.
Many buildings are slated for demolition, and there is a relatively profitable Section 8 rental market for those that aren't.
Fishing for uni is labor intensive and unpredictable but, if the uni are large enough, relatively profitable, he said.
Kazuya Nakagawa, senior vice president at Mizuho's international coordination division, said merger and acquisition finance was relatively profitable, compared with loans to blue-chip companies.
TV stations and small-town newspapers still remain relatively profitable, though not as much as they were in the pre-Internet era.
The unstructured existence of the motorcycle-taxi driver can be appealing and relatively profitable".What do you think they are going to do now though?" asks the lady sitting in the prized passenger-seat.
"Military activities that destroy infrastructure such as irrigation and roads therefore make opium relatively more profitable".
But they're faster-growing, relatively more profitable, and they're increasingly influential.
The later suggests that farmers involved in a bigger network of experienced farmers with new technology are more likely to adopt the new technology and are relatively more profitable.
Likewise, this negative statistical relationship can be also attributed to the destination of FDI into non-tradable sectors (construction and services, for example) that has made manufacturing relatively less profitable (Bárcena 2015).
This high value of the land transformation elasticity permits land conversion from rainfed areas to irrigated areas if the latter become relatively more profitable in the wake of increased ethanol production.
