A lot of it may also be that people are still treating this as a highly indebted, risky, poorly operated, and
marginally profitable company that it is without looking deeper at the assets that it will still hold after receiving the $ 1.7 billion from Itochu, and how new Dole will now be a much healthier and less risky company
That's been an important marker on the road to this filing; even
a marginally profitable company would seem to fetch a higher price than a losing one.
Not exact matches
The logic of his argument — which was purely a «counterfactual» hypothetical — is that investors would stop pouring money into
marginally profitable «zombie»
companies, leaving only the gazelles to speed ahead.
A majority of the following are often true of potential turnarounds: • within the past 1 - 2 years, there has been a major change in top management — a new chairman or chief executive officer, for example; • unprofitable or
marginally profitable operations have been discontinued; • corporate officers or directors have been buying the
company's stock.
Closing
marginally profitable or unprofitable doors improves the health and profitability of the remaining smaller
companies.
I have considerable experience working with
companies that are either not
profitable or are
marginally profitable and turning them into successful,
profitable operations.
While markets throughout much of the United States have recovered, the
Company still estimates that a significant number of real estate brokerages today are not
profitable or are
marginally profitable due to the impact of high or fixed overhead and a costly struggle to drive higher productivity among their agents.