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Apple had a pretty good quarter."
And by “pretty good”, I mean it was the biggest quarter in history. And not just for Apple. For any company. Ever.

This page charts the past record holders. Until today, Russia’s Gazprom (the largest natural gas extractor in the world) held the record at $16.2 billion in a quarter.
Top Ten Largest Corporate Quarterly Earnings Of All Time:

1. Apple, 2015 1Q – $18.04 billion
2. Gazprom, 2011 1Q – $16.24 billion
3. Royal Dutch Shell, 2008 2Q – $16.18 billion
4. ExxonMobil, 2008 3Q – $15.27 billion
5. Apple, 2014 1Q – $13.10 billion
6. Apple, 2013 1Q – $13.08 billion
7. Apple, 2012 1Q – $13.06 billion
8. ExxonMobil, 2007 4Q – $12.53 billion
9. Apple, 2012 2Q – $11.6 billion
10. ExxonMobil, 2005 4Q – $12.28 billion


Apple now holds the record: $18.04 billion in profit, fiscal Q1 of 2015.

Absolutely. Insane.

For reference, that means Apple makes around $8.3 million dollars per hour in profit (24 hours a day.)

Of the current Top 20 record holding earners, 15 are Oil/Gas producers — primarily ExxonMobil and Shell. The other 5 are all Apple, over various quarters.



To put things in perspective:

Period -Profit
Quarter -$18,040,000,000
Monthly -$6,013,333,333
Daily -$198,241,758
Hourly -$8,260,073
Per Minute -$137,668
Per Second -$2,294