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“The profitless dot-com bubble saw a 266% rally in the S&P 500 vs only 85% so far despite strong AI earnings growth,” the Jefferies team wrote.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 3, 2025

Sticking with durable, high-quality stocks isn’t always easy, especially when speculative markets make winners out of shiny new objects, including recent initial public offerings External link and profitless tech companies.

From Barron's • Oct. 23, 2025

On Monday, Afterpay closed in Sydney up 18.76%, while Square climbed 10.15% in New York, despite the prospect of shareholders being diluted by the new shares to pay for the profitless Australian company.

From Reuters • Aug. 3, 2021

Or what about those profitless but hypertrophied creatures of the dot-com boom, such as theglobe.com? In 1999 a company called Pixelon raised $35 million, Mr. McCullough notes, to develop video and audio streaming.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 1, 2018

A somewhat systematic consideration of the bearing of his teachings on the present war may therefore not be altogether profitless.

From The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 by Various