Do you have a link to a thorough article regarding Exxon's profits? I'd like to see their revenues as well as the hard profit number.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11098458/
Interestingly, this was buried into the very end: "For the full year, net income surged to $5.71 per share from $3.89 per share in 2004. Annual revenue grew to $371 billion from $298.04 billion."
$36.13B/$371B=9.74% - Nothing out of hand here.....