Operating profits certainly but if you include investments the big players are raking it in aren't they?

Investment is debt lol. Maybe you can make the argument that you're increasing the equity value but you do have to eventually prove you're able to make money right? Maybe you don't, this system is pretty messed up after all.

	▲	griffzhowl 7 days ago \| parent [-]
		As long as you have more money coming in than your costs, then it's technically a profit even if that money comes from investments. It's not the same as debt from a loan, because people are buying a percentage stake in the company. If the value of the company happens to go to zero there's nothing left to pay. But yeah, the amount of investment a company attracts should have something to do with the perception that it'll operate at a profit at some point