Business that never lose money?

I can't think of any except casinos and HMOs.

>>> I can't think of any except casinos and HMOs.

Really?...well both of those lose money... Trump has troubles with his in A.C. and Resorts International in A.C. had to close as well.

What makes you think these businesses don't have competition or don't struggle?

Even banks lose money....there are no businesses that can't lose money.

Everyone loses money...and the guy on here stating insurance companies don't lose money is way off.
Health, Life and Property/Casualty (auto) insurance ALL LOSE money. Every state has an Insurance Commissioner that closely monitors and regulates the insurance industry within that state. In this process the go over the books of the company's to make sure they are operating in solvency, and to protect individuals from insurance companies running on fumes. These companies do lose money (usually hand over fist) and do go out of business.
The same is true for casinos, as the state gaming regulation committee monitors Casinos to maintain a reserve...Casinos lose money, just not as fast as we would like.
There exists no business that does not lose money. Tax collection is not a business, its a government entity, and therefore excluded from this definition...though they never have money, so they can't lose it...they merely collect. This means the Government loses money...which it does with budget deficits, current account deficiets, decreasing dollar value, etc.

Business of "putting money in FDIC insured bank" is one that is always profitable.
There is direct loss of money and then there is opportunity cost. There may be business that may not LOSE money but then it is possible that the same people could have made more money elsewhere. That is called opportunity cost. So even though gains will be positive but they may be less compared to if they had something else.

There are a few that have had long histories of not loosing money and there are a few that have not lost money in their relatively short histories.

There are many companies who have paid continuous dividends for longer periods of time. I do not know if they were profitable during all of that time.

JCI since 1987

JP since 1913

GE since 1899

GIS since 1898

CPB since 1902

WGL since 1852 That is correct 1852

UGI since 1885

JPM since 1827