Apple's Astonishing Profit in Context [Chart]

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Posted November 26, 2012 at 8:16pm by Shalom Levytam

Statista offers a chart showing Apple's astonishing profit compared to its competitors.

Apple wrapped up fiscal 2012 with a profit of $41.7 billion on $156.5 billion revenue. Here's how it compares to the competition.

• From October 2011 through September 2012, the combined net profit of Microsoft, Google, eBay, Yahoo, Facebook and Amazon was $34.4 billion. Apple alone made $7 billion more.

• In the same period, Dell, Asus, Intel, Acer, IBM, Lenovo and HP, i.e. virtually the entire PC industry, made $19.3 billion or less than half of Apple’s profit.

Take a look at the chart below to visualize this.

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Apple's Astonishing Profit in Context [Chart]

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Sabtain - November 28, 2012 at 4:35am

This won't change

Bob - November 27, 2012 at 7:14am

I guess a nice chunk of that is from lawsuits.

AB - November 27, 2012 at 5:06am

In the long term, in any industry, this kind of hegemony is not beneficial for consumers.

JS - November 28, 2012 at 6:23am

Under Microsoftian "hegemony" legal action resulted in a "crippling" decision (ahem, B*****S******) which clearly destroyed the company and paved the way for Appleodian "hegemony." Which tech company will pursue "hegemony" in the continuing saga?