unprofitable firm

基本解释

New investments, lines of business, and worker-firm matches that would be highly productive and profitable at normal levels of capacity utilization and unemployment are unprofitable now.
在正常产能利用率和失业率水平上具有很高生产率和盈利能力的新投资、商业贷款以及员工-企业匹配，如今却都变得亏本了。

To cite one case, the cost of a put on Cell Pathways, an unprofitable biotech firm (up by 500% in the past year), is fully half the cost of its shares.
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DeCode is a small, unprofitable biotech firm founded by the genetics visionary Kari Stefansson , who left a tenured post at Harvard University to go back to Iceland and probe the genetics of an entire country.
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As in cases of predatory pricing, when a big firm slashes prices to unprofitable levels in the hope of recouping its losses and more once weaker rivals are driven from the market, revenue is sacrificed in the short run in the hope of dividends later.
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