How to Use capital-intensive in a Sentence

capital-intensive

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• This is always one of the most capital-intensive times for a launch company.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 24 Mar. 2023
• After all, film is a capital-intensive business that is hit-driven.
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Aug. 2023
• The clean energy system of the future will be capital-intensive, which means that its behavior will be highly influenced by where funds are willing and able to flow.
  — Kassia Yanosek, Foreign Affairs, 29 Nov. 2023
• Brands handle their own shipping, and Flip handles the less capital-intensive business of customer service and returns.
  — Carly Olson, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2023
• Texas passed a law that enabled big projects to avoid school taxes, which helped attract chipmaking plants, wind power farms and other capital-intensive investments.
  — Mitchell Schnurman, Dallas News, 7 Apr. 2023
• To a certain extent, that’s to be expected given the bearish market for technology stocks in the last two years and the risks involved with novel, capital-intensive business models.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 12 July 2023
• Bootstrapping a business is hard; bootstrapping a capital-intensive frozen food business is even harder.
  — Forbes Membership, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
• Higher interest rates and rising costs have hurt the companies in what are often capital-intensive industries.
  — Amrith Ramkumar, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2023
• In capital-intensive fields such as biotechnology, little has changed.
  — Vivek Wadhwa, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2023
• Here’s how: • Larger loans: Real estate is capital-intensive.
  — Brandon Elliott, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
• In her chapter of the handbook, the Tax Foundation’s Erica York explains that our tax code is punishing capital-intensive sectors like manufacturing.
  — Veronique De Rugy, Orange County Register, 23 May 2024
• However, the industry must also understand that AI needn’t be capital-intensive.
  — Siby Vadakekkara, Forbes, 5 May 2023
• Manufacturing, channel, or go-to-market partners, funding, right, to support a capital-intensive development process, and many more.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Oct. 2023
• The effect of higher interest rates has been clearly visible in manufacturing, a capital-intensive sector where employment has essentially been flat since late 2022.
  — Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 3 May 2024
• At every level of production, filmmaking has always been a capital-intensive undertaking, and movie watching has always been a consumer activity.
  — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2023
• Instead, higher interest rates and supply-chain bottlenecks have hobbled clean-energy project finance, pummeling capital-intensive renewables sectors such as wind and solar.
  — Natasha White, Fortune, 14 Jan. 2024
• The company transitioned into a more asset-light business model, offloading its loss-making bikes and scooters business and winding down its capital-intensive autonomous vehicle division.
  — Natalie Lung, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2024
• Fast-growing or capital-light businesses (such as software or internet specialists) often have relatively high P/Es, while capital-intensive or slower-growing companies (such as railroads or automakers) often have lower ones.
  — The Motley Fool, Dallas News, 16 May 2023
• Clean energy is a highly competitive, capital-intensive, and rapidly changing industry.
  — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 24 Apr. 2024
• Digital consumer products generally require the aggressive, capital-intensive user growth strategies demanded by venture investors.
  — Andrew Serazin, Time, 14 June 2023

Last Updated: 3 Oct 2024