Company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), is placed on the 5th position in a top 5 Fortune 500 that lists the American companies with the highest revenues in a single year. In the attached image you can see the rest of the companies present in this top made by Fortune and notice that Walmart, Exxon Mobil, Chevron and Berkshire Hathaway are the only ones that generated higher revenues than Apple during 2014.
The Apple company maintains its fourth position in Fortune's list, but the interesting part is that it had the highest profit and has the highest market share among all the companies present. In 2014, Apple had a profit of 39.5 billion dollars and its stock market capitalization amounts to a little over 700 billion dollars at the moment, much more than the 4 companies placed above it.
After a bumpy start to 2014, Apple's stock finished the year up 40%, adding nearly $200 billion to the company's market value. A product pipeline that's gotten Apple fanboys lining up all over again has certainly helped reenergize revenue growth: In addition to unveiling new categories like Apple Pay and Apple Watch, the company launched the iPhone 6, selling a record-breaking 10 million units in the first three days. As CEO Tim Cook recently told investors: "It's tough to find something in the numbers not to like." The normally low-profile Cook is breaking new ground in other ways too—in October, 2014 he came out as the first openly gay CEO of a Fortune 500 company.
The Apple company is the only one of its direct competitors present in the top 30 of the Fortune 500, Microsoft, Google or Facebook losing their positions gained during 2013. Practically, during 2014 Apple managed to strengthen its position in the top of the most important companies from the USA, having the highest receipts in its history, but also the highest profit.
