The VAR Guy has written extensively about Microsoft’s problems. But today, he got a stunning reminder about the company’s power. It takes Microsoft only 10 hours of business to exceed Red Hat’s entire quarterly profit. Skeptical? Check out the math, and nine other facts about Microsoft’s profits.
Microsoft today announced quarterly revenue of $14.4 billion and net income of $4.93 billion. In other words, Microsoft’s daily net income is about $55 million. That’s $55 million in pure profit every 24 hours. Do some quick math and you’ll learn it takes Microsoft only about…
- 10 hours or so (yes, hours!) 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.
For a dead company, Microsoft’s profits certainly look lively.
Oh my god. That’s obscene.
Is that $4.93 billion for the quarter, or the entire year?
That’s greater than the GDP of some small nations!
The quarter. $55 million in pure profit every day.
[...] and Wal-Mart! Microsoft brings in $55 million of profit — profit, not revenue — PER DAY. Something to think about next time you’re shelling out $450 for a copy of Microsoft Office. [...]
[...] and Wal-Mart! Microsoft brings in $55 million of profit — profit, not revenue — PER DAY. Something to think about next time you’re shelling out $450 for a copy of Microsoft Office. [...]
[...] and Wal-Mart! Microsoft brings in $55 million of profit — profit, not revenue — PER DAY. Something to think about next time you’re shelling out $450 for a copy of Microsoft Office. [...]
Speaking of things to think about, where is that money going to go now? I have a few ideas. Expantion, higher pay for employees, donations, etc. This is just further proof to me that if Microsoft does fall, the economy is going to fall with it.
[...] Ever wondered how much Microsoft makes an hour (via)? Microsoft today announced quarterly revenue of $14.4 billion and net income of $4.93 billion. In [...]
[...] For a dead company, Microsoft’s profits certainly look lively. [...]
However strict the rules may be, there’s always grey-area shenanigans when posting accounts for Wall Street. Perhaps Microsoft has fueled the impression of being down on its luck, although I haven’t discovered its purpose in doing so.
During this period when Microsoft’s profit jumped 65 percent, it has done very little to counter many, many reporters saying tat there are revenue problems with Microsoft and Vista.
Incidentally, the most recent surge in revenue was the result of deferred revenue from upgrade coupons it offered last year’s Christmas buyers.
Maybe they are pulling in big bucks. But in my opinion, Gates and Buffet are American Icon Heros’. How many other Billionaires do you know who do so much for others with their wealth. God bless them. A lesson for the other Billionaires in this world. Help those who have not. Then they too will be able to buy your products…..
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And yet MSFT isn’t even top-10 in Fortune 500.
“Exxon Mobil was the most profitable company last year by far, raking in $39.5 billion in earnings.”
So, in global scale, MS is small fish, as much as some like to adore it.
On the other hand, selling BS has always been very profitable, 34% net profit tells the story.
It has dropped though, MSFT has done net profit more than 40%, several times.
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[...] I’m jealous… I wouldn’t mine making a $55M profit per day… although I’d probably try a slightly… Posted by md on May 1st, 2007 | Filed in Business, Microsoft [...]
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If the public didn’t love the products, MS would have few sales and had gone out of business long ago. The “market” defines your success!
What other company donates such tremendous
amounts of money to worth while causes and charities???
Exxon makes a little under 1 billion dollars a day profit.
And by the way, that’s what MICROSOFT is making, not what Bill Gates actually gets.
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Their new products have been disapointing for the past 5 years, time their R&D department came up with something eye catching.
Bill Gates aint the richest no more rofl
My factory nike makes 33333.9999 bilion an hour
[...] Check it out! While looking through the blogosphere we stumbled on an interesting post today.Here’s a quick excerptrevenue of $14.4 billion and net income of $4.93 billion [...]
yet another reason to pirate microsoft products… or better yet, go linux and opensource and quit shelling out to such an abhorrent company.