Apple’s Q3 results hugely outpaced analysts’ estimates. The company earned $28.57 billion in total revenue, $7.31 billion of which was net profit. It shipped 20.3 million iPhones and 9.25 million iPads, in addition to 3.95 million Macs and 7.54 million iPods.

If those statistics aren’t staggering enough, here are a few more comparisons to help put things in perspective.

• The $6 billion in revenue from Apple’s iPad sales, up a whopping 183 percent year-over-over, now exceeds Dell’s consumer PC business. Twice.
• Apple’s $358 billion market value now totals more than the former Microsoft-Intel “monopoly” combined.
• Exxon Mobil, the largest publicly traded company in the world, is less than 20 percent larger in market value than Apple.
• Apple’s cash and marketable securities now totals over $76 billion. That sum in $1 bills would fill Apple’s new 500,000 square foot data center to a depth a six feet and weigh 83,000 tons.
• Using only this quarter’s net profit, Apple could empty out the $1 billion in unused dollar coins sitting in U.S. vaults more than seven times over. The resulting sea of golden Sacagaweas would weigh over 130 million pounds, or about 65,250 cows.

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