MARKETS / GLOSSARY / REVENUE

Revenue

What the company billed its customers over the fiscal year, after returns and the sales taxes it collects on someone else's behalf. It is the top line — the scale of the business before any cost.

Definition

How it is computed here

Formulaas reported in the income statement
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
Identifierreceita
The limit

What this number does not tell you

Revenue says nothing about whether the business keeps any of it. A distributor can bill hundreds of billions and keep less than a cent per dollar. It also cannot be compared across currencies: a company reporting in yen shows a number seventy times larger than an American peer of the same size.

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 revenue

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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