return on investment
Americannoun
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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.
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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%.
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.
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.
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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.
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