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return on investment

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noun

  1. the amount of profit, before tax and after depreciation, from an investment made, usually expressed as a percentage of the original total cost invested. ROI


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Megacap tech stocks are struggling as investors balk at the massive spending on AI infrastructure, seemingly worried about the possibility that the return on investment might be too weak to justify the tremendous cost.

From MarketWatch

The group forecasts around 6.3 billion euros in net profit on group insurance revenue of around 64 billion euros, with a return on investment above 3.5%.

From The Wall Street Journal

Even if newer vehicles the company is building cut that cost by half, an autonomous-vehicle service needs to maximize utilization to earn a return on investment.

From The Wall Street Journal

For context, that was the year Amazon launched its cloud-computing platform Amazon Web Services — a decision that many investors criticized as being too expensive and margin-shrinking, with no visible return on investment at the time.

From MarketWatch

For context, that was the year Amazon launched its cloud-computing platform Amazon Web Services — a decision that many investors criticized as being too expensive and margin-shrinking, with no visible return on investment at the time.

From MarketWatch