5.01.2007

How Much Microsoft Makes in Profits

Think Microsoft is losing ground to Google? Think they're hurting from pirated versions of Windows floating around? Maybe, but they made $14.4 billion dollars last quarter, including a net income of $4.93 billion. That's a hell of a lot of money, but to put it fully in perspective, see how it stacks up against other major earners. It takes Microsoft only about...:

  • 10 hours or so to exceed Red Hat’s quarterly net income of $20.5 million.
  • four days to exceed Research In Motion’s quarterly net income of $187.9 million.
  • four days to exceed Starbucks’ quarterly net income of $205 million.
  • one week to exceed Nike’s quarterly net income of $350.8 million.
  • two weeks to exceed McDonalds’ quarterly net income of $762 million.
  • two weeks to exceed Apple’s quarterly net income of $770 million.
  • 18 days to exceed Google’s quarterly net income of $1 billion.
  • 23 days to exceed Coca-Cola’s quarterly net income of $1.26 billion.
  • five weeks to exceed IBM’s quarterly net income of $1.85 billion.
  • 10 weeks to exceed Wal-Mart’s quarterly net income of $3.9 billion.
That puts it well ahead of the hugely profitable names you'd think of.

[via techiqmag.com]