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Health insurers post fairly low profit figures

Robin Lawson Norwich

Publication: The Day

Published 11/27/2009 12:00 AM
Updated 11/27/2009 12:25 AM

Health insurers posted a 2.2 percent profit margin last year, placing them 35th on the Fortune 500 list of top industries.

The latest annual profit margins of a selection of products, services and industries are:

• Tupperware Brands, 7.5 percent.

• Yahoo, 5.9 percent.

• Hershey, 6.1 percent.

• Clorox, 8.7 percent.

• Molson Coors Brewing, 8.1 percent.

• Construction and farm machinery, 5 percent.

• Yum Brands (KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell), 8.5 percent.

Bunch of greedy capitalists? Do people want to see these folks shut down?

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