"Industry profitability" refers to the level of profit or financial success that companies operating within a specific industry can achieve. It represents the overall ability of companies in that industry to generate consistent and substantial profits from their business operations.
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The long history
of industry profitability led many investors and analysts to believe that these businesses would always be solid as a rock.
The decline has severely
undermined industry profitability, added further strain to balance sheets, and raised doubts as to future returns on capital committed to new mining projects.
It said IATA revised slightly downward its outlook for 2016
airline industry profitability to 35.6 billion dollars from the June projection of 39.4 billion dollars owing to slower global Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth and rising costs.
«North American airlines are the powerhouse
of industry profitability, generating about half of the collective global profit,» the IATA writes.
Industry profitability has already lost some altitude.
The data from the eight presentations at the CARD Act conference provide an overview of the credit card market — the cost of credit for consumers, the supply of and demand for credit, and
industry profitability.
Steady defense - business growth combined with renewed auto -
industry profitability have put Rheinmetall on pace to generate another record year of profits.
Industry profitability is projected to trend upwards over the next five years.
These facilities and those that follow will be driven by the same dynamic as grain ethanol, namely
that industry profitability will be driven by ongoing reduction of processing costs such as enzymes and energy, as well as by increasing yields.
Key drivers for 2014 are the expected improvement of
both industry profitability and interest rates.