Since you’ve opened this article, Apple has made around $18K – that’s in just 10 seconds!
Tipalti have analyzed factors such as annual profit to a concise breakdown revealing how much the world’s richest companies make every second.
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World’s Richest Companies Average Profit Per Second
| Rank | Company | Average profit | Average profit per day | Average profit per hour | Average profit minute | Average profit per second |
| 1 | Apple | $57,411,000,000 | $157,290,411 | $6,553,767 | $109,229 | $1,820 |
| 2 | Microsoft | $44,281,000,000 | $121,317,808 | $5,054,909 | $84,248 | $1,404 |
| 3 | Berkshire Hathaway | $42,521,000,000 | $116,495,890 | $4,853,995 | $80,900 | $1,348 |
| 4 | Alphabet | $40,269,000,000 | $110,326,027 | $4,596,918 | $76,615 | $1,277 |
| 5 | Meta Platforms | $29,146,000,000 | $79,852,055 | $3,327,169 | $55,453 | $924 |
| 6 | JPMorgan Chase | $29,131,000,000 | $79,810,959 | $3,325,457 | $55,424 | $924 |
| 7 | Amazon | $21,331,000,000 | $58,441,096 | $2,435,046 | $40,584 | $676 |
| 8 | Intel | $20,894,000,000 | $57,257,534 | $2,385,731 | $39,762 | $663 |
| 9 | Bank of America | $17,894,000,000 | $49,024,658 | $2,042,694 | $34,045 | $567 |
| 10 | Verzion Communications | $17,801,000,000 | $48,769,863 | $2,032,078 | $33,868 | $564 |
Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) retains the world’s most profit per second at $1,820, generating $57 billion per annum. The company's revenue increases by 2% every year - as they continuously innovate new products, Apple has become the world's leading technology company with record highs valued at over $2 trillion in 2021.
The 47-year-running tech company Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT) takes second place making more than a thousand dollars each second of the day. Also within the same margins of profit per second is Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.A) (NYSE:BRK.B), both owned by Bill Gates.
Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) (formerly known as Facebook) made an official debut in 2004. Although most recently adding to the colony of tech, metaverse has been integrated into Meta platforms and is still a working progress to increase user engagement and revenue. The average profit per sec is $924.
Further insights include:
- Fellow tech giants Microsoft and Alphabet (the parent company of Google), as well as Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway, all also draw in more than a thousand dollars each second, which works out at over $100 million a day.
- At the other end of the scale, Uber Technologies made a huge loss of $6.8 billion in 2021, equating to $215 every second. Despite being the world’s largest ride-hailing app, Uber has famously never turned a profit.
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