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We’re used to hearing how Apple makes an absolute hatful of money, and that it’s sitting on a massive war chest of cash, but this really puts it in perspective: Apple generates more profit than Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Yahoo, and eBay combined. Holy crap.
New figures out of Statisa indicate Apple pulls in some £26 billion in profit, which is around £4.5 billion more than the big six above all lumped into one pot. That’s insane. Not only that, but it’s considerably larger than even the PC giants, Intel, IBM, Lenovo, Acer, Asus, HP and Dell, who together generate just £12 billion. Hell, Walt Disney, News Corp, TimeWarner, Viacom, and Comcast combined only generate about the same £12 billion too.
To put that in perspective, Apple could hire the world’s highest paid footballer, Lionel Messi, on about £27.5 million a year, 945 times over. In fact, Apple could probably just buy the whole of a Premiership with profits alone. That really is incredible. [Statista via TechRadar]
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Still just the one shareholder dividend then?
that’s alotta wonga
http://youtu.be/mnMT663_jjI
That’s a lot of warm cup.
They should start a bank!!! and make a car
They could start a bank and give everyone who opens an account a free car. Frankly if the decided to do pretty much anything the only thing to stop them would be the law and that can be bought off.*
*Note to anyone who is about to accuse me of making an Anti-Apple post, please fuck off and die. I am simply stating that ANYONE with that much money could do anything they wanted within legal limits and that money does get laws changed.
Only if the “Geniuses” are well paid city bankers who got fired. Then they actually would be banking geniuses.
I wonder if Apple makes a car will it have Windows?
Nope, it will have retina displays, and Facetime HD cameras on the outside. NO WINDOWS!
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Amazing what the brain washed folk will donate to their fake religions.
As a scientologist, I’m offended!
Hooray for Apple! I hope their top executives are very happy with the $117bn cash reserves they have in their coffers. I would hate to see it wasted on something worthwhile that could benefit the world.
Well it certainly wasn’t spent on a useable map
Is Sam trying to tell us something by using the Family guy version rather than the Disney one?
Also, I’ll admit I’m not a massive fan of Apple but it would be amazing if they started taking part in things like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Giving_Pledge
But shareholders must be kept happy and that’s fair enough, I guess…
I don’t get the point of it, ye its nice they are leaving money to charity, but arent most of them only doing it when they die? If they really cared wouldnt they do it now?
As generous as Bill Gates is etc, his donations so far are on the same scale as me giving £3, he will never miss that money etc etc etc…
actually Bill Gates and Warren Buffet, two of the richest men in the world are busy donating huge chunks of their money to good causes. Buffet has pledged at least half of his fortune, and I am sure I have read some where that he plans to donate the lot before he dies. The Gates’s are probably on target to spend their whole cash pile too. Gates holds the record for the largest single donation of $10 Billion for example. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1247067/Bill-Gates-makes-worlds-largest-charitable-6bn-vaccines-poor-children.html
The money is donated to the charity yes, but its not been handed out…. They just use the charity to re-invest the money and make more money.
but what is 10 billion to bill gates? Nothing.
http://www.forbes.com/profile/bill-gates/
He’s worth $66b (is it a b or a B for billion?), so $10billion (f*ck it I’m just going to write it out) is actually a significant portion of his wealth. Unless you thought he was worth in the trillions, in which case your statement would make sense.
not really, can he ever spend that 66b? Not unless he wants to start his own army or buy up islands.
He doesn’t have 66b in the bank its what he’s worth his liquid assets will be considerably less than that. What most of these guys are doing is giving shares of their business to the charities and the charities benefit from the sale or profits from the shares
Their shareholders are idiots who have been happy without a dividend up until earlier this year, and even then it is pitiful. They could literally burn 3/4 of their profits annually and still have more than enough to cover their divedends for the next few years. This is nothing to do with shareholders and everything to do with the company’s greed.
Really? I’ve never really understood how all that works, mainly because I have no money. So where do the profits go then? Back into the company to fund R&D? Or are the profits their total sales minus all that stuff?
As far as I’m aware, money made is revenue which can then be either re-invested in things like R&D or declared profits. I believe you can stockpile a lot of money as revenue and that’s what Apple seem to be doing – but hey, my business experience is derived from Dragon’s Den so probably better to do more research if you’re still unsure.
Out of curiosity, how does that compare to Samsung?
It dosent.
But the important question is:
“Do they pay their taxes?”
What happens when you charge £2000 for a £500 product and all the fanbois buy it.
And they still haven’t bought their own telecoms company yet.
That surprises me most.
Suing does present that opportunity.
These stats are retarded. Samsung have been lumped in with Nokia, HTC and RIM who all lost money. On their own Samsung made roughly $5b per quarter in 2012.
I can’t be bothered to research the other companies but HP have been reporting stonking great big losses which will make the PC industry group look worse than the other companies do on their own as well.
I’m not an Apple hater but this really is the stupidest fucking chart I’ve ever seen.
Yes indeed, the best comparison I can get is for both companies in Q3 2012:
Apple profits Q3 2012: $8.8B
Samsung profits Q3 2012: $7.3B
And with iPad and iPhone sales taking a pounding of late, and Galaxy and Note devices speading like wildfire I can see Samsung overtaking soon – so just Google and Samsung would more than eclipse Apple in profits.
How much tax did they pay!?
Well if Statisa reported it, it clearly must be true.
Its not as if there is a tendency to over-estimate tech company earnings at the moment is there?
Facebook….Autonomy….others?
not really surprising. the mark up on each of their inflated price products is huge. and they have a loyal fanbase to fork it out every 6 months.
Those numbers don’t seem right. At all.
In fact, this article, and the conclusion that Apple makes more profit than the rest of the industry combined, is so fucking retarded.
It’s basically all straight-up lies.
Also, Microsoft is doing very well if you factor in their aQuantive writeoff.
I wonder if they did their accounts software is based iMap tech?
“Right, work out the profit… So, two plus two is… forty billion!!!! What’s for lunch?”
They’re still scum that sells overpriced goods and contributed nothing to mankind. And if it wasn’t for them, that market gap would have probably been filled by a lesser evil.