Questions tagged [profitability]
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How do credit card companies make profit?
How do credit card companies make profit by giving us credit for 40-50 days (India). I purchase something on my credit card and I pay it to the credit card company after some days. How are they going to make profit with this where I'm not paying any…
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How can a credit card company make any money off me? I have a no-fee card and pay my balance on time
How does a credit card company make any money off of me using their card if there are no fees associated with the card (I don't pay any extra) and I pay off my balance on time every month (so I don't pay any fees ever for this either).
Are they just…
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How does Fidelity make money off me?
I have an IRA account with Fidelity which I use to buy a handful of Fidelity mutual funds. Since they are Fidelity mutual funds, Fidelity does not charge commission on them.
So how then does Fidelity make money off a customer like me?
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Where can publicly traded profits go but to shareholders via dividends?
Some companies don't pay dividends. Some companies accumulate money like the offshore "exiled" or expatriated cash piles of the likes of Apple and friends. So I suppose that corporate profits can be accumulated as well as subsequently invested into…
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What do "unsettled funds" mean?
I sold my ETFs today in a non-margin account in an online trading platform.
99.99% of my account currently consists of unsettled funds. What does it mean that they are "unsettled funds"? Does it mean that the trading platform hasn't sold them yet?…
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Do you pay no tax if you lose money on a business or an investment? If so, why is that?
Is it true that in a business or an investment, we only pay tax if we make a profit? That is, if we make only a loss, there is no tax?
Why is this so? Because from what I understand, the tax is paid to the government because we are using the…
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What does the sum of Profit/ Loss percentages indicate?
My question may sound too stupid, but trying to understand some basics here.
I have the buy & sell price of certain stocks. I've calculated the profit/ loss (P/L) on each of them and the profit & loss percentages.
If I take the sum of all the…
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Gnucash: Keeping track of sales and expenses for a specific craft show
My wife is an artist, and is beginning to do craft shows. I want to be able to track the profitability for each show by collecting expenses and sales. Expenses can occur up to a year in advance of the event. I've read through the manuals about jobs,…
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How could a company survive just on operations cash flow, i.e. no earnings?
Is this statement true?
A company can usually survive for a time without earnings as long as
cash flow from operations covers expenses and provides funds for
growth.
Doesn't operations profit come from gross profit? Can anyone provide a mini…
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Are large companies more profitable than small ones?
Economies of scale and scope indicates that a large company will in general be more profitable than a smaller one. Is there any statistical material that supports this? Of course, the interesting comparison is to look at profit/income ratio for…
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Does a stock holder profit from a reverse-stock split?
I noticed today, that a couple of the top gainers in the NYSE and the NASDAQ had reverse stock splits yesterday. SGY and DZSI show gains of ~300% and ~400% respectively. Each is associated with a 5 for 1 reverse split.
If I held stock in these…
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Is a website/domain name an asset or a liability?
To what extent can one consider a domain name and/or website to be an asset vs. liability?
Clearly the people who have websites that do make big profits off of them consider them to be valuable, intangible assets because of the opportunities to earn…
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Understanding company income statements: What is a good profit margin that would make it worthwhile to invest?
I have been learning about how to read and understand a stock company's income statement and using those variables to determine the worth of the stock. My question is, what is a good profit margin for a company that would make it worthwhile to…
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Are marijuana based investments promising, or just another scam?
I have seen countless websites, ads, and have had people trying to sell the idea of investing money in to so-called "lucrative" Cannabis/marijuana stocks. The idea here is that marijuana is a growing business in the U.S., and thus it's highly…
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Can banks charge a lower interest rate for loans than for their fixed term savings account and still make profit?
A friend of mine got a loan of 1,000,000 at an interest rate of 10.6% per year for three years and then deposited that 1 million at 3-year fixed-term non-accessible savings account with a return interest rate of 12% per year at the same bank. In the…
