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The Revenue Race - who’s in the lead?

Tom White

7th February 2014

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Here's a fun link, showing a variety of firm's building up revenue in real time. The winner clocks up $1m in little over a minute. Of course, revenue isn't the same thing as profit - but you can track net profit too, showing up some interesting issues. Coca-Cola earns more than PepsiCo despite fewer sales. Boeing and Airbus enjoy about equal revenue, but the American firm is much more profitable.

The Race to a million is here in the Economist.

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Tom White