"The question is, what will be the profitability of those new increased sales?"
About 60 percent of new sales came in fund shares with the high annual fees.
This brought in 3 million dollars in new sales within the first year.
Boeing can also leverage a strong services arm to help it win new sales.
After the release of version 7.1 in late 1997 there were few new sales.
But he added that new sales were down 40 percent from the September level.
For May, new sales are estimated at $9.7 billion, according to the firm.
That money would have to be generated from another source, most likely new sales or income taxes.
With development costs long since paid off, new sales are largely gravy.
In 2009 only 10.5 million new sales were made.