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Business statistics: what big companies earn and keep.
Numbers worked out from the latest annual reports of 102 big companies and the SEC's data on every U.S. public company. Free to cite.
102 big companiestook in $9.21 trillion in revenue in their latest years and kept $1.37 trillion in net profit.
$14.92is what they kept out of every $100 of sales, all together.
$12.42is what the typical (median) company kept of every $100.
5 of 102lost money in their latest year: Ford, Roblox, AMC Theatres, Snapchat, Intel.
2,100,000people work at Walmart, the biggest employer here. All 93 companies with a stated count employ 14,102,711 people together.
+1254%is Live Nation's revenue growth over the years shown, the fastest of any company here.
$4.53 trillionis what the 10 largest U.S. companies brought in between them.
How to cite: The Business Study, "Business statistics" (https://thebusinessstudy.com/business-statistics/), from companies' SEC filings, updated November 2026.
Sources: each company's Form 10-K (or 20-F) on SEC EDGAR, and the SEC's XBRL "frames" data for the largest companies. Profit = net income. See each company page for its filing.