Fun with company analysis - 2024 week 35
I was just messing around with a spreadsheet trying to replicate those viral posts.
> Apple at $2.5 million revenue per employee At $383B revenue in 2023, with 160k employees, Apple is a monster!
Other things that stand out
OpenAI now on the low billions of revenue, and under 2k employees, also scores pretty high on the ratio. Ofc, they still have a long way to go relatively speaking.
Naturally, software companies have much higher ratios, even if they vary significantly (Apple, Google, Microsoft).
It's interesting to see similar ratios $0.3-0.4 million per employee for operations-heavy companies Amazon, Walmart, AAirlines.
Companies that build mass-market goods like Coca-Cola, Nike also on similar ratios but more efficient (they outsource the distribution problem).
Amex is a category on its own being a financial company, I'd expect a higher ratio.
Good fun on a spreadsheet!
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