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by OldTimeCoffee 1611 days ago
Microsoft. From their last 10-Q, Page 3. 20.5B in net income on 45.3B in revenue.

https://microsoft.gcs-web.com/static-files/2dcc3079-9cbd-40e...

Pfizer Pharmaceuticals. From their last 10-Q, Page 5. 8.1B in net income on 24B in revenue.

https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0000078003/59601e3...

Most retail has pretty low margins because you would go out of business pretty quickly otherwise. It's pretty easy to setup a storefront and buy goods from a distributor, low barrier to entry means you can't charge high prices because it's easy to undercut you. Setting up a datacenter or building a competing OS is really difficult and expensive. High barrier to entry gives you high margins because it's difficult to undercut you.