I'm not a paid lobbyist for Compu*, and I know they have a very negative reputation among many shops.
However, for their last quarter, they had net earnings before taxes of $52MM on sales of $315MM, or 16.5%. That's not out of line for a software company. They have about $2B in assets, so the $52MM represents a return on assets of about 2.4%. Seeing as how assets invested in an ING market rate account earn 5%, with essentially no risk, it's hard for me to call 2.4% an outrageous return on assets. They have a market cap of $3.13B, so the shareholders are getting an effective return on investment of 1.67%. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Justice Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 6:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: ISV Profits (Was RE: Macro List/Execute Forms (Was: Need help with Assembler ...)) I could name a certain vendor named compu* something or other that likes to charge a lot more than they should be charging. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
