__() and get_option() translation?

So I am trying something like this:

<?
$companyprofile = get_option('company_profile');
echo __( $companyprofile, 'normal-text-domain' );
?>

so i have theme options for my about page “company profile” and I want to be able to wrap this with gettext but unfortunatly this is not working yet for me.

Any help? seggestions?

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