There's also taxes. Companies get tax cuts if their net revenue is below a certain point.

Basically, if a company makes a gross revenue of $1 million, but their operation costs were $750 thousand, then they get taxed on the $250 thousand that was their net revenue.

A lot of companies, such as Netflix when they started out, will take advantage of this system. They will purposely spend money to recklessly grow their catalogue, causing them to be in the red by the time taxes are due. Which gives them tax breaks that don't reflect the reality of how they are purposely gaming the system.