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Visualizing the Money Made Per Second by Top Companies
Visualizing the Money Made Per Second by Top Companies
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 comes to us from TitleMax, and it 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:
| Rank | Company | Profit per second | Net income (2016) |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Apple | $1,444.76 | $45.7B |
| #2 | JPMorgan Chase | $782.14 | $24.7B |
| #3 | Berkshire Hathaway | $761.30 | $24.1B |
| #4 | Wells Fargo | $693.75 | $21.9B |
| #5 | Alphabet | $615.96 | $19.5B |
| #6 | Bank of America | $566.24 | $17.9B |
| #7 | Microsoft | $531.21 | $16.8B |
| #8 | Johnson & Johnson | $523.05 | $16.5B |
| #9 | Citigroup | $471.56 | $14.9B |
| #10 | Altria Group | $450.28 | $14.2B |
Apple’s $1,444 per second is in a league of its own – and the company’s competitors only make hundreds of dollars per second. In other words, Apple will likely remain on the top of this list for some time.
Tough to Beat
The above graphic is based on the 2017 Fortune 500 list, which uses numbers from 2016.
Since the list was published, Apple has released their 2017 results, and we now know that the company has seen another increase in net income – this time it is up to $48.4 billion ($1,533.17 per second).
Companies like JPMorgan Chase, Alphabet, and Berkshire Hathaway have yet to release their figures for 2017, but it’s unlikely that even someone as prolific as Warren Buffett will be able to keep up.
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Charted: What are Retail Investors Interested in Buying in 2023?
What key themes and strategies are retail investors looking at for the rest of 2023? Preview: AI is a popular choice.
Charted: Retail Investors’ Top Picks for 2023
U.S. retail investors, enticed by a brief pause in the interest rate cycle, came roaring back in the early summer. But what are their investment priorities for the second half of 2023?
We visualized the data from Public’s 2023 Retail Investor Report, which surveyed 1,005 retail investors on their platform, asking “which investment strategy or themes are you interested in as part of your overall investment strategy?”
Survey respondents ticked all the options that applied to them, thus their response percentages do not sum to 100%.
Where Are Retail Investors Putting Their Money?
By far the most popular strategy for retail investors is dividend investing with 50% of the respondents selecting it as something they’re interested in.
Dividends can help supplement incomes and come with tax benefits (especially for lower income investors or if the dividend is paid out into a tax-deferred account), and can be a popular choice during more inflationary times.
| Investment Strategy | Percent of Respondents |
|---|---|
| Dividend Investing | 50% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 36% |
| Total Stock Market Index | 36% |
| Renewable Energy | 33% |
| Big Tech | 31% |
| Treasuries (T-Bills) | 31% |
| Electric Vehicles | 27% |
| Large Cap | 26% |
| Small Cap | 24% |
| Emerging Markets | 23% |
| Real Estate | 23% |
| Gold & Precious Metals | 23% |
| Mid Cap | 19% |
| Inflation Protection | 13% |
| Commodities | 12% |
Meanwhile, the hype around AI hasn’t faded, with 36% of the respondents saying they’d be interested in investing in the theme—including juggernaut chipmaker Nvidia. This is tied for second place with Total Stock Market Index investing.
Treasury Bills (30%) represent the safety anchoring of the portfolio but the ongoing climate crisis is also on investors’ minds with Renewable Energy (33%) and EVs (27%) scoring fairly high on the interest list.
Commodities and Inflation-Protection stocks on the other hand have fallen out of favor.
Come on Barbie, Let’s Go Party…
Another interesting takeaway pulled from the survey is how conversations about prevailing companies—or the buzz around them—are influencing trades. The platform found that public investors in Mattel increased 6.6 times after the success of the ‘Barbie’ movie.
Bud Light also saw a 1.5x increase in retail investors, despite receiving negative attention from their fans after the company did a beer promotion campaign with trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
Given the origin story of a large chunk of American retail investors revolves around GameStop and AMC, these insights aren’t new, but they do reveal a persisting trend.
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