Apple's Cabbage How the iPhone-maker
spends its revenue.

$234billionApple's revenue (ttm)

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billion GreeceApplePortugal If Apple were a country...

$0 billion $500 billion The
S&P 500 Companies, Ranked by Revenue Apple: 3rd

Not all of this falls
to the bottom line.

70% Where does Apple's revenue
go? $234 Billion Expenses ate up $163.4 billion.$163.4 billion

Where does Apple's revenue go?
70% 8% $234 Billion Taxes accounted for another $19.2 billion.$19.2 billion

Where does Apple's revenue go?
70% 8% 22% $234 Billion Leaving net income of $51.3 billion

Where does Apple's revenue go?
70% 8% 5% 22% $234 Billion From this, it paid dividends totalling $11.6 billion

Where does Apple's revenue go?
70% 8% 5% 15%22% $234 Billion Bought back common stock worth $34.8 billion

Where does Apple's revenue go?
70% 8% 5% 15% 2% 22% $234 Billion And retained the rest…

Interesting
observations3

$19.1B $8.5B $5.6B $4.5B AAPL
GE XOM WMT MSFT MRK VZ DIS CMCSA UNH The 10 Biggest Corporate Taxpayers in America Based on income tax provisions, trailing twelve months First, Apple pays A LOT in taxes.

Second, Apple enjoys wider profit
margins than eight out of ten of its peers. 30% Apple's pretax operating margin (ttm) 19%Average pretax operating margin of the 100 biggest S&P 500 companies (ttm)

0% 5,000% 10,000% 15,000% 20,000%
25,000% 30,000% 1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 Apple's Stock S&P 500 Which, third, explains this…

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