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The Opportunity in Beaten-Down, Money-Losing Growth Businesses

This Week in Intelligent Investing

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What Are the Signs That a Company Might Become Profitable?

Look for divestitures alongside any focus on core and cancellation of projects that were adjacent to where the primary business had been historically. Look for midterm profit targets when it's a company who'd never spoken about such things in the past. Do some non-gap style sleuthing and hunt the proxy for management comp changes. If you have really high gross margins and you're breaking even odds are there's some bloat in your organization somewhere there.

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