No it’s not. Your own math shows you’re wrong. With a billion in additional sales that new factory clear $600 million profit the first year. Now your factory is paid for, and you’ve still got the billion in sales a year PLUS whatever else they’re doing. That’s $900 million a year in cleared profit.
The short sighted financial plan is YOURS. This shortage has been going on for nearly a DECADE. But cowards and idiots keep thinking it’s gonna fix itself so they aren’t increasing capacity. The long view is America and the world love they’re freaking bullets, nobody has EVER gone broke in that market while making an even decent product. INCREASE CAPACITY. Nobody in the market should have gone past the first year of the shortage without building up. Any shortage that doesn’t correct in 6 months is going to last, that’s a change in demand, not a surge.
So, the other operations are not going to take up any of that slack?
That is not how large companies work.
If it made financial sense, don’t you think ONE of them would be doing that? One or two run by financial idiots would not surprise me. But all of them?