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Apple Becomes First US Company To Top $800 Billion Value (bloomberg.com)
According to Bloomberg, "Apple became the first U.S. company with a market value of more than $800 billion as investors bet the next iPhone will spur a resurgence in sales." From the report: The stock rose 1 percent Tuesday to close at $153.99 in New York, giving it a market capitalization of about $803 billion. The shares have gained 33 percent since the start of the year, helped by a buyback program that Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook extended to total $210 billion last week, from $175 billion last year. Apple's rise to the top of the world's largest equity market highlights the emergence of mobile technology and the relative decline of the oil industry in recent years. Exxon Mobil Corp.'s value peaked in the fall of 2007, when oil prices climbed toward $100 a barrel. In November of that year, PetroChina Co. briefly became the first global company with a market capitalization of more than $1 trillion. Apple's revenue grew in the most recent fiscal quarter even as iPhone unit sales fell.
Just amazes me how well they do when they completely ignore business needs. No servers, No way to run virtual machines on a PC, and a MAC cant hold more than like 2 or 3... The fact that you cant buy a mac with 10 processors or 1 TB of RAM is just crazy to me. And honestly, there macbooks are outdated, expensive, and bloated..... just my 2 cents.
~Bchickens
One of the problems with countries like India and China is that Universities view funding and student fees as being more important than the skills of their students. In chinese and indian universities it is very common for students to hand in cut and past assignments. I recently was talking to a western medical teacher who was working in china and he was chastised by the University for having high standards that incurred low student scores. The laugh is he was actually making the exams easier than what he is used to assigning in the USA. So yes you can get thousands of cheap engineers in China but less than 5% of them are worth paying for.
While very impressive numbers, when you adjust for inflation things look different.
Adjusted for inflation:
- Cisco had a market cap of 758 billion in March 2000.
- GE has a market cap of 816 billion in August 2000
- Microsoft had a market cap of 871 billion in December 1999
- IBM had a market cap of 1.3 trillion in 1967
https://qz.com/335147/apples-m... http://gadgets.ndtv.com/others...
But they all dwarf compared to the Dutch East-India Company (VOC), 1602-1800, the first publicly traded company in the world, which had a market cap of over SEVEN TRILLION inflation-adjusted dollars at its peak.