That rating is by Market Cap, not sales.
Apple is way down the list of companies ranked by revenues.
http://www.statista.com/statistics/263265/top-companies-in-the-world-by-revenue/
http://fortune.com/fortune500/
Which would you rather be - a bank with $2 billion in deposits - or a corporation which owns $2 billion?Revenue is what comes in, and costs go out - and profit is what’s retained.
AAPL is pretty good at taking in money, but it’s great at keeping it.It’s called, a “high profit margin."
Revenues are all well and good. . . but it's like Market Share. Unless those revenues stick to your fingers and in your pocket, they mean NOTHING. Unless you want to count certain Government national banks like the Industrial & Commercial Bank of China's profits of $ 42,718,000,000 with assets of 3,124,886,000,000 (that three TRILLION dollars). . . and the US Government's Fannie Mae withe profits of $ 83,963,000,000 on assets of 3,270,108,000,000 (another $3 trillion in real estate loans), There is NO OTHER COMPANY IN THE WORLD with profits like Apple's!
Profits of the worlds' largest revenue corporations in order of PROFITS:
| WORLD CORPORATIONS IN ORDER OF PROFITS | |||||
| Corporation | US Rev. Rank | World Rev. Rank | Revenue | Profit Rank | Profits |
| Apple Inc. | 5 | 15 | $170,910,000,000 | 1 | $37,037,000,000 |
| Exxon Mobile | 2 | 5 | $407,666,000,000 | 2 | $32,580,000,000 |
| Samsung Electronics | n/a | 13 | $208,938,000,000 | 3 | $27,245,000,000 |
| British Petroleum | n/a | 6 | $396,217,000,000 | 4 | $23,451,000,000 |
| Chevron | 3 | 12 | $220,356,000,000 | 5 | $21,423,000,000 |
| Berkshire Hathaway | 4 | 14 | $182,150,000,000 | 6 | $19,476,000,000 |
| China National Petroleum | n/a | 4 | $432,007,000,000 | 7 | $18,504,000,000 |
| Toyota Motor | n/a | 9 | $256,454,000,000 | 8 | $18,198,000,000 |
| Royal Dutch Shell | n/a | 2 | $459,599,000,000 | 9 | $16,371,000,000 |
| WalMart | 1 | 1 | $476,294,000,000 | 10 | $16,022,000,000 |
| Volkswagon | n/a | 8 | $261,539,000,000 | 11 | $12,071,000,000 |
| Total Oil | n/a | 11 | $227,882,000,000 | 12 | $11,204,000,000 |
| Sinopec Group | n/a | 3 | $457,201,000,000 | 13 | $8,932,000,000 |
| China State Grid | n/a | 7 | $333,386,000,000 | 14 | $7,982,000,000 |
| Glance | n/a | 10 | $232,694,000,000 | 15 | $ 7,402,000,000 |