Microsoft made a nice $4.93 billion on revenue of $14.4 billion in one quarter. That is a profit of 34.24%. Lots of companies are jealous.
It takes Microsoft only about...
10 hours or so (yes, hours!) to exceed Red Hat's (NYSE: RHT - News) quarterly net income of $20.5 million.
four days to exceed Research In Motion's (NasdaqGS: RIMM) quarterly net income of $187.9 million.
four days to exceed Starbucks' (NasdaqGS: SBUX) quarterly net income of $205 million.
one week to exceed Nike's (NYSE: NKE - News) quarterly net income of $350.8 million.
two weeks to exceed McDonalds' (NYSE: MCD - News) quarterly net income of $762 million.
two weeks to exceed Apple's (NasdaqGS: AAPL) quarterly net income of $770 million.
18 days to exceed Google's (NasdaqGS: GOOG) quarterly net income of $1 billion.
23 days to exceed Coca-Cola's (NYSE: KO - News) quarterly net income of $1.26 billion.
five weeks to exceed IBM's (NYSE: IBM - News) quarterly net income of $1.85 billion.
10 weeks to exceed Wal-Mart's (NYSE: WMT - News) quarterly net income of $3.9 billion.
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