What I mean is that telling me in the headline that it's their biggest profit in 114 years does not mean anything to me, it doesn't give me any scale of the ach

What I mean is that telling me in the headline that it's their biggest profit in 114 years does not mean anything to me, it doesn't give me any scale of the achievement, because lots of things today are much bigger than any time in the last 114 years: population, money circulation, GDP/GNI, resources consumed The final sentence in my comment makes this quite clear, I think.