Sadly, I expect the rest of corporate returns to be worse given usually the better returns are scheduled for release first. (talkmarkets.com)
As a franchisor, this can give you the flexibility to consider markets in which corporate returns might be marginal. (entrepreneur.com)
Finally, Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research has suggested that patents and copyright law are skewing corporate returns, a possibility Criscuolo mentioned to me as well. (hbr.org)