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• a  yielding material gain or profit
  profitable speculation on the stock market

• Car companies have a chance to become profitable again, if they are willing to get into a business that they may not have considered a year ago.
• Germany's most profitable export in 1940 was the New Order.
• Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit says that "we are profitable through the first two months of 2009 and are having our best quarter-to-date performance since the third quarter of 2007.

• unprofitable

News & Articles

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• This Profitable Luxury Retailer Is Still Cheap
  This Profitable Luxury Retailer Is Still Cheap        
  June 11, 2013 - The Motley Fool
• 3 Profitable Transportation Companies to Watch
  3 Profitable Transportation Companies to Watch        
  June 11, 2013 - The Motley Fool
• Highly Profitable and Fast Growing Home Improvement Retailer
  Highly Profitable and Fast Growing Home Improvement Retailer        
  June 10, 2013 - The Motley Fool

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in Clean Energy News (blog)
  ...help realize this goal, Obama called for Congress (and it was a rather soft request, not an executive command) to pass an energy and climate bill with "incentives that will finally make clean energy the profitable kind of energy in...
• Roger Penske in The Tennessean
  I would expect that the model we're putting together, the distribution model, will be profitable from day one,Penske said. "We'll have less costs."
• Brian Tierney in TheStreet.com
  This restructuring is focused solely on our debt, not our operations,CEO Brian P. Tierney said in a statement. "Our operations are sound and profitable."