Imagine that for every second that passes, your bank account inches up $1.
You’d be making $60 per minute, or the equivalent of $86,400 in a day. Over the course of a year, you’d roll in a solid $31.5 million of profit.
While this would be prolific for almost any person or company in the world – the truth is that for many of America’s top companies, this amount of profit would be just a drop in the pan.
Profit per second
Today’s visualization shows the net income generated per second by America’s most profitable Fortune 500 companies.
Apple leads the pack by a wide margin, making $1,444 in profit per second – this is equal to $5.2 million per hour, $127 million per day, or $45.7 billion per year, based on 2016 net income figures.
Here is how Apple compares to other top profit-makers in the country:
Source: http://www.visualcapitalist.com/money-made-per-second-top-companies/
