From: Jeff Shultz 

On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 06:25:29 -0500, Geo wrote:

> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
> news:439e64da$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> That indicates how pitifully low their profits were as a percentage of
> sales
>> in the prior year.  The post Katrina profits don't exceed 10% as a
>> percentage of sales.  In line with or less than the corporate average.
>
> 43 billion dollars Gary, 43 BILLION in profits. That even puts Microsoft
> to shame.
>
> Geo.

They're a bit bigger than Microsoft (and more than one company too). What
are the profits of the entire software/hardware industry?

Worldwide.

And yeah, it's a percentage thing - that's a lot of shareholders too.

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