Apple’s revenue is more than the individual gross domestic product of 105 countries

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Apple’s revenue of $46.33 billion is about the same as the GDP of Tunisia or Slovenia, as well as the combined islands of Jamaica, Iceland, The Bahamas, Haiti, St. Lucia, Maldives, Antigua/Barbuda and Grenada.

Don’t stop reading. Below are some really amazing numbers of Apple inc, posted by WSJ:

Apple’s cash pile of $97.6 billion is:

-more than eight times that of Boeing ($11.3 billion).

-more than twice Google’s cash ($44.6 billion).

-higher than the market capitalizations of all but 52 publicly traded companies in the world, and all but 475 of the S&P 500 (not counting Apple itself.)

-enough to buy Dell, Yahoo, Motorola Mobility, Activision Blizzard, Best Buy and Netflix together, all at a 10% premium.

Apple’s revenue of $46.33 billion is:

-more than the individual gross domestic product of 105 countries, according to the latest 2010 numbers from World Bank.

-about the same as the GDP of Tunisia or Slovenia, as well as the combined islands of Jamaica, Iceland, The Bahamas, Haiti, St.  Lucia, Maldives, Antigua/Barbuda and Grenada.

-more than the quarterly revenue of the five largest U.S. airlines (United Continental, Delta, US Airways, American Airlines, and Southwest) combined.

Apple’s income of $13.06 billion is:

-roughly the same as the latest quarterly profits of tech giants Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Intel combined.

-more than Google’s revenue of $10.6 billion in its most recent quarter.

-about 621 times Mitt Romney’s $21 million of income in 2010.

-nearly five times the income made by every Major League Baseball player in 2011.

Apple’s market capitalization of $415.96 billion is:

-is about tied with Exxon-Mobil, for long the largest company in the world.

-is roughly the same as two Wal-Marts or five Amazon.coms or 10 eBays or 20 Time Warner Cables.

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