Apple up to the rank of the world's richest 17 ​​list of companies

GadgetFan - Apple up the ranks to the position 17 in the list of Fortune 500 companies of the world's richest after record revenues of U.S. $ 108.2 billion. Previously, Apple was in a position to-35 in the year 2011.

Interestingly, Apple is now beyond the achievements of the company that IBM dropped one place to rank the world's 19 richest companies. Meanwhile, Hewlett Packard (HP) located at position 10 with their income which reached U.S. $ 127.2 billion.

Apple also noted the position-3 in the category of profit, which Apple has recorded a net profit of U.S. $ 25.9 billion. Apple just lost to the two oil giants Exxon and Chevron. Apple may even be on top of Microsoft that was in the 4th position with enough to make a profit of U.S. $ 23.1 billion.

Fortune rate increase occurred because Apple Apple continues to pump sales of new products such as New iPad. Apple even managed to increase the stock value per share from 2010 2X. This is what makes Apple could do the distribution of profits (dividends) this year.

The following are the Top 5 companies that have the greatest profit in the year 2011 yesterday

     Exxon Mobile: U.S. $ 41 billion
     Chevron: U.S. $ 26.9 billion
     Apple: U.S. $ 25.9 billion
     Microsoft: U.S. $ 23 billion
     Ford Motor: U.S. $ 20.2 billion