The World's Top 100 Companies: Revenue Versus Profits

in apple •  7 years ago 

Just over a month ago, Visual Capitalist published a very tidy data visualization that summed up the top 50 companies in the world by revenue, based on data from Forbes.

But, as Jeff Desjardins notes, just looking at revenue numbers doesn’t give a full picture on how these companies compare – and many investors care much more about a different performance metric: profit.

Roday’s data visualization from Ishtyaq Habib shows the top 100 biggest companies by market value, but uses circles to represent both the revenue and profit for each company. There’s also an interactive version of the same chart here as well, which highlights the specific numbers for each company highlighted. 


Courtesy of: Visual Capitalist 

APPLE = A MONEY-MAKING MACHINE

The first noticeable difference in this version?It’s that Apple is unparalleled in its ability to make money. In fact, Apple’s 2016 profit of $45 billion is far bigger than any other company, including Berkshire Hathaway ($24 billion), JPMorgan Chase ($24 billion), Wells Fargo ($22 billion), Alphabet ($19 billion), Samsung ($19 billion), Toyota ($17 billion), Johnson & Johnson ($16 billion), or Walmart ($14 billion).The only companies that can compare with Apple were Chinese banks like ICBC, Agricultural Bank of China, or China Construction Bank, but in many ways these state-owned enterprises are on an entirely different playing field, anyways.Also impressive: Apple’s profits are bigger than the revenues of massive companies like Coca-Cola ($41.5 billion) or Facebook ($27.6 billion).

MARGINS, SCHMARGINS

Unfortunately, not every company can make a 21% profit margin on $217 billion of revenue like Apple.Other organizations need to rely on razor-thin margins and volume to make things work. Walmart only brought in $14 billion of profit off of a whopping $485 billion of revenue – a margin of just 2.8%. Meanwhile, fast-growing Amazon was in a similar boat with margins of 1.7%, largely provided by its wildly successful AWS service.Lastly, it is also worth noting that some on the list did not make a margin at all. These are mostly companies that are suffering from the challenges of down cycles in natural resources. Chevron and mining giant Glencore, for example, were two of the Top 100 Companies that both lost money in 2016, while BP essentially broke even. 

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Wow that is an insane profit margin. The other companies can not even compare to Apple. I am surprised by amazons numbers. Is it as low as it is because it keeps expanding into other avenues thus driving down their overall profits?

It will change very soon, the new economic paradigm is landing.

Too good not to share! Great post!
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Apple fans are fucking idiots. We know. This is why that corporation can rape them for such huge profits year after year.

"Walmart only brought in $14 billion of profit..."

I feel so sorry for them.

I heard recently that Amazon actually makes more but they cook the books to show a much lower profit in order to pay less tax.