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Apple's Cabbage
How the iPhone-maker spends its revenue.
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$234 billion
Apple's revenue (ttm)
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If Apple were a country...
$238 billion
$234 billion
$230 billion
Portugal
Apple
Greece
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The S&P 500 Companies, Ranked by Revenue
$500 billion
$0 billion
Apple:
3rd
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Not all of this falls to the bottom line.
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Where does Apple's revenue go?
70%
$234
Billion
Expenses ate up $163.4 billion
$163.4 billion.
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Where does Apple's revenue go?
8%
70%
$234
Billion
Taxes accounted for another $19.2 billion
billion.
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Where does Apple's revenue go?
8%
70%
$234
Billion
22%
Leaving net income of $51.3 billion
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Where does Apple's revenue go?
8%
5%
70%
$234
Billion
22%
From this, it paid dividends totalling $11.6 billion
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Where does Apple's revenue go?
8%
5%
70%
$234
Billion
22%
Bought back common stock worth $34.8 billion
15%
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Where does Apple's revenue go?
8%
5%
70%
$234
Billion
22%
15%
2%
And retained the rest…
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3
Interesting
observations
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$19.1B
The 10 Biggest Corporate Taxpayers in America
Based on income tax provisions, trailing twelve months
$8.5B
$5.6B
AAPL
GE
XOM
WMT
MSFT
MRK
$4.5B
VZ
DIS
First, Apple pays A LOT in taxes.
CMCSA UNH
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Second, Apple enjoys wider profit margins
than eight out of ten of its peers.
Apple's
30%
pretax
operating
margin (ttm)
19%
Average
pretax
operating
margin of the 100
biggest S&P 500
companies
(ttm)
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30,000%
25,000%
20,000%
15,000%
Which, third,
explains this…
Apple's
Stock
10,000%
5,000%
S&P 500
0%
1997
1999
2001
2003
2005
2007
2009
2011
2013
2015
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