While barely profitable, retail continued to be a useful source of ready cash.

Not bad for a company that was barely profitable as recently as three years ago.

In the early 80's, a slew of competitors left it barely profitable.

It was barely profitable, because we hadn't paid much attention to it.

Yahoo, which is barely profitable, has a market value of more than $5 billion.

In the end, he mentioned, the deal might well prove barely profitable for his firm.

"At the end of the day you have a car business that's barely profitable this year in a 17 million market."

Wal-Mart said the store was barely profitable and not being closed in retaliation.

The company was barely profitable in the first nine months this year, earning $2 million, on sales of $8 billion.

And, barely profitable, Marvel clearly had much room for improvement.