In the last three months of 2014, Apple posted the biggest quarterly profit -- $18 billion -- in corporate history. For Apple's fiscal year, which ends in September, the company is set to rake in $52.5 billion in earnings, according to analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters.
If Apple (AAPL, Tech30) hits that mark, it would be the largest annual profit ever generated from a company's operations. (Fannie Mae got a giant one-time accounting benefit in 2013 that gave the company a net income of $84 billion). Apple is already in striking distance of besting ExxonMobil's(XOM) record-setting $45 billion profit recorded in 2008.
Apple is set to report its past-quarter earnings on Tuesday, and analysts are expecting a relatively lean (for Apple) $10.4 billion in net income.
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