The annual investment or management investment fees charged against your cash value are designed to make sure the universal life insurance company
is profitable even when their portfolios perform poorly.
However, it's worth nothing that your business should still
be profitable even if your low sales estimate turns out to be correct.
In a conference call Wednesday night, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the company currently believes the fourth quarter will be profitable excluding non-cash stock - based expenses, and added there is a «chance» Tesla will
be profitable even taking those things into account.
But James says that works
are profitable even beyond this.
At this level of wages Arsenal should still
be profitable even with the reduced income, and will still generate close on # 70m for transfers every year.
At the same time, the steep price of gasoline — and corn — means that next - generation ethanol can
be profitable even if its price doesn't reach what Khosla Ventures» Kaul calls the «holy grail» of $ 1 a gallon.
Understand that in long options you have to overcome the time priced into the premium to
be profitable even if you are right on the direction of the move.
Your goal should be to buy an asset at a bargain which is so big that your investment will
be profitable even if the estimate is fuzzy.
Sega, a former Nintendo competitor, has proven it's possible to
be profitable even if your console business fails.
«Avoiding the problems that plague large manufacturers, we've developed a flexible structure that allows us to move rapidly to market and
be profitable even while selling a relatively small number of vehicles per month.
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reports: «Many oil producers believe drilling in some U.S. regions can
be profitable even with oil prices in their current range of $ 40 to $ 50 a barrel.»
Qin thinks he will continue to
be profitable even if bitcoin continues to lose value.
Not exact matches
According to its founder, who periodically makes announcements about his company's financial health
even though he isn't required to do so, the company has
been profitable in some quarters but prefers to reinvest in growth.
But
even if they had done a better job of adapting, they would probably still
be fighting to remain relevant and
profitable, because the media world has changed around them.
Your business model while you
are ramen
profitable doesn't
even need to resemble your ultimate business model.
(Some business models
are built on breaking
even on the customer's first or second purchase; then future purchases will
be profitable, since the CAC
is at or near zero.)
While it
's rare that you'd have any room left
even if your startup
is hot,
is growing quickly, and
is profitable from the word go.
He concluded: «Our analysis
is that no current music subscription service... can ever
be profitable,
even if they execute perfectly.»
Ideally, with economies of scale we'll
be able to cost reduce the unit, make it more
profitable and ultimately hit an
even more attractive price point.
Sources familiar with Instacart's finances told The Wall Street Journal, however, that Instacart wasn't
profitable and that not all orders made
even a small profit.
«I
'm not sure if for this indication Novartis can
even make it
profitable.»
But there
's another fact he
's even prouder of: Leesa
is profitable, and he hasn't touched that $ 9 million yet.
Even as corporate earnings continue to soar and big companies appear to
be very
profitable, I've remained cautiously optimistic about the economy, because the SurePayroll Small Business Scorecard data doesn't reveal the uptick in hiring we've wanted to see.
In that scenario,
even if the firm finishes the year in the red, it would still
be required to pay income tax based on the
profitable months.
Even if you have the most brilliant social media strategy and
are constantly bringing new faces through the door, it will
be hard to stay
profitable if unpaid merchandise walks out behind them.
«Then
even when the market collapsed we had enough momentum to
be able to turn it into a
profitable business and then sell it.»
And
even if it
is a great idea, it won't become
profitable for a while.
«They
are not
even close to
profitable.»
Another kink: it
's possible to qualify for productivity and quality bonuses
even when the company isn't
profitable.
Blackham Resources»
profitable underground mining operation at the Matilda / Wiluna gold project has
been extended for another six months and new studies suggest it could
be harbouring
even more high - grade ounces yet to
be discovered.
«If you look at my track record at Sybase, I think we made money for some 60 quarters in a row,
even when the dotcom bubble blew up we
were profitable.
Even if your company
is profitable, you could still run out of that oh - so - important business lifeblood: cash.
Leading this smaller pack
was Delta Air Lines (DAL), which
was able to fill its planes more efficiently than its rivals, dominate the
profitable New York market, and earn more dollars per passenger mile than
even Southwest.
But Apple
is so
profitable that
even at this number a single share will set you back close to $ 400.
And
even some of the Snap bulls admit that their arguments
are often based less on logic or fundamentals than on wishful ideas of a faraway day when Snap will
be profitable.
«While we expect to see
even further reduced demand in the oilsands for much of the remainder of the fiscal year, we believe we
are taking the appropriate steps to help us remain
profitable at lower volumes,» president and CEO Martin Ferron said in a release.
This instance of success shows just how powerful and
profitable your account can
be even if you don't sell your own product.
We believed that
even if our revenue
was off, if we adjusted our variable costs to match, we could
be profitable.
Mike writes: The «venture - funded company XYZ isn't
even profitable!!»
Ferriola also reminded Cramer that
even though Nucor has managed to stay in business and remain
profitable in the face of stifling foreign competition, enforcing these trade laws would make the hard times less painful for what
's left of the steel producers.
If you have a lot of old receivables that can't
be collected, or a lot of old inventory that can't
be sold, you could become insolvent,
even if you appear to
be profitable on your income statement, and insolvency
is one step away from bankruptcy.
Even with all the numbers in place, it
's possible that your sound decision may end up less than favorable, or that your poor decision may turn out
profitable as a fluke.
By September, the company
was breaking
even; in October, InsuranceAgents.com
was profitable again.
Why would I waste
even $ 1 in that asset class when buying an equity index fund
is so easy (and long - term
profitable)?
Running a
profitable airline
is even tougher.
They will
even claim to
be «unit
profitable» when all they have really done
is stopped
being gross margin negative.
Even companies that garner lots of eyeballs on the world's biggest video site — and Machinima says it generates billions of views a month — have had a hard time turning that into a
profitable business, because ad rates
are low and much of the money they do make goes back to YouTube.
So unlike brokers, we have no conflict of interest pushing us to recommend high volumes of trades whether we believe in the potential of those trades or not We have no perpetual bias for a bull market as most of Wall Street has to
be (to justify the heavily - weighted stance of «buy» vs. «sell,» a stance that always persists
even in harshest bear markets) Instead of all of these kinds of anti-investor establishment motivators, we will sell our products on subscription, with a customer - friendly, overwhelming motivation to deliver an experience that will win very
profitable renewals for many years to come.
For their part, financial institutions remain
profitable,
even though they
are absorbing higher loan impairments.
Still,
even at the current depressed price levels, production, for the most part, in those countries
is still
profitable.