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Net income

What is left for shareholders after everything else is paid. It is the bottom line of the income statement and the numerator of most ratios on this site.

Definition

How it is computed here

Formularevenue − all costs, expenses, interest and taxes
UnitCurrency amount
PeriodOne fiscal year, as reported
SourceExtracted from SEC filings; every value on an asset page carries the accounting tag and the filing it came from
Identifierlucro
The limit

What this number does not tell you

Net income is an accounting result, not cash. It includes non-cash charges like depreciation and impairments, and one-off items — a legal settlement or an asset sale — that will not repeat. A single year in isolation is the least informative way to read it.

Every metric on this site is published with its blind spot stated. A figure without its limit is half a fact.

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In the data

Highest reported net income

From the most recent fiscal year of each company. Only companies reporting in US dollars are ranked here — a figure in yen or won is not larger, it is in another currency.

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