Would You Invest In a Company That Could Not Lose Money?

[ThomWV]

I'm not talking about the stock price of the company going up or down, I'm just saying that if you knew there was a company that was going to make a profit on its product no matter what happened short of a world-wide nuclear war or the second comming would you invest in it? Consider that question for a moment before going on.

Now that you've thought about the first question can you immagine any business you might enter into in which you could be certain that you would not lose money? Think about that one for a moment as well.

Finally, can you immagine any circumstance what so ever under which one of the major oil companies will not make a profit? Think about that one as long as you like.

[taught_me_patience]

1. not necessarily

There are many factors that go into an investment decision.

"Finally, can you immagine any circumstance what so ever under which one of the major oil companies will not make a profit? Think about that one as long as you like." -Absolutely. When the price of supplying oil is greater than the price the consumer is willing to pay for that energy, then oil companies will not make a profit. A good way to lower demand is to find suitable alternatives and supply costs will rise as it becomes more difficult to extract oil from the ground. Over the next decades, we will see both supply of oil and demand for oil falling.

[notfullofit]

2. I just

wish I had a product that everyone in the world needed.

[orleans]

3. how about air? or water?

can we mass market "fun"?

[rock]

4. Nationalization

I'm not recommending it, I'm just sayin'.

[TahitiNut]

5. Oil IS money. Forget the "gold standard" - the world is on the "oil standard" now.

:shrug:

[Quantess]

6. Yes. How about "black gold"?

Now instead, 24k gold should be called "gold oil".

[jobendorfer]

7. there's more to this than a bottom line

It would matter to me what the business specifically did.
I don't want to pull down a double digit ROI if the business is involves economically or socially laying
waste to people, somewhere.

J.