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
  • What's next: Expect to see more capital-intensive climate startups with high burn rates trip up in a frozen funding market.
    Katie Fehrenbacher, Axios, 5 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • The first is meant to bring solutions to suppliers, and the second will help those same suppliers finance those capital-intensive improvements.
    Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • The chilly funding environment continues to catch up with capital-intensive climate tech startups seeking to scale.
    Katie Fehrenbacher, Axios, 24 July 2024
  • 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
  • One of those is low-interest federal loans, an unglamorous but potentially powerful tool for launching novel, capital-intensive technologies.
    Kenny Torrella, Vox, 9 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • The company has a capital-intensive business model which is simultaneously highly cyclical.
    Trefis Team, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024

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