Cash “Engines”: Top 20 of the richest companies in the world | How much profit each of them earns a year, a day, a second

The largest amount of profit (in absolute value) is generated in the stock market by a small number of companies. And that number is constantly decreasing.

In the US, about 50% of the profit earned by public companies is generated by only 30 companies. In 1975, 109 companies owned half of the income.

Year	Number of companies making 50% profit	Number of public companies in the USA	Share, %
1975	109	4,819	2,2
2015	30	3,766	0,8

The dynamics of basic income concentration by a limited number of “the select few” is evident. And this trend is not only for the US, but it is worldwide.

Who are those selected few? The companies that make the most money. And by the way, how much do they actually make? How much do those companies make a year, a day, a second?

Of the top 20 richest companies, a half of them are found in the United States. A quarter (25%) in China, and the rest are in 5 other countries.

The first five front runners are raking up hundreds of millions of dollars every day! If converted into a per-second income earned by them, you get a range from $1,200 to $3,500 EACH AND EVERY SECOND!

№	Company	Country	Income per day	Income per second
1	Saudi Aramco	Saudi Arabia	$304,039,726	$3,519
2	Apple	USA	$163,098,630	$1,888
3	Industrial & Commercial Bank of China	China	$123,293,973	$1,427
4	Samsung Electronics	South Korea	$109,301,918	$1,265
5	China Construction Bank	China	$105,475,068	$1,221
6	JPMorgan Chase & Co.	USA	$88,969,863	$1,030
7	Alphabet	USA	$84,208,219	$975
8	Agricultural Bank of China	China	$83,990,411	$972
9	Bank of America Corp.	USA	$77,115,068	$893
10	Bank of China	China	$74,589,589	$863
11	Royal Dutch Shell	UK / Netherlands	$63,978,082	$740
12	Gazprom	Russia	$63,559,178	$736
13	Wells Fargo	USA	$61,350,685	$710
14	Facebook	USA	$60,580,822	$701
15	Intel	USA	$57,679,452	$668
16	Exxon Mobil	USA	$57,095,890	$661
17	AT&T	USA	$53,068,493	$614
18	Citigroup	USA	$49,438,356	$572
19	Toyota Motor	Japan	$46,526,027	$538
20	China Development Bank	China	$45,874,795	$531

The front-runner, Saudi Aramco has a profit of more than 300 million per day! That’s breathtaking. To appreciate the scale of the cash flow, let’s convert that into annual profit. Doing that gives us over $110 billion he makes in a year!