Hi Rod, It depends which measure you use. Peter is talking about market capitalization -- the product of the number of shares outstanding and the share price. Apple passed Microsoft earlier this year in terms of market capitalization but was at the time, still behind it in revenue and profit. More recently Apple passed Microsoft in revenue but is still behind it in profit. Overall, Apple is the second largest company in terms of market capitalization behind only Exxon Mobil. If current trends continue (and who knows with Europe looking shaky), Apple will pass Exxon some time in 2011.
It's a pleasure to see that quality and taste sometimes does win out over market manipulation and connivance. :-) Cheers, Carlo On 2010-11-25, at 10:21, Rod Kevill wrote: > > Hey Peter, according to Fortune Mags global listing of the top 500 > companies, Apple comes in at 197... > > See > http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/global500/2010/full_list/101_200.html > > Cheers, > Rod > > On 25/11/10 10:17 AM, "Mark Secker" <m...@biz.uwa.edu.au> wrote: > >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On 25/11/10 9:38 AM, "Peter Bull" <pb...@bbnet.com.au> wrote: >> >>> >>> While watching Channel 7 last night an ad came on for the Mac Book Air. I >>> had seen it quite a few times before, but it struck me that a years ago >>> Wamuggers would excitedly post a message here that they had seen a TV ad >>> for Mac computers. Back then, it seemed like the ads were only broadcast >>> a few times, and Macs were "weird" computers owned by geeks and arty >>> types. >>> >>> Now apparently, Apple is the second biggest company in the world after >>> Exxon Mobil and all things Apple and Mac are household names. >>> >>> How the wheel turns..... >>> >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Peter Bull >>> pb...@bbnet.com.au >>> >> >> >> I concur... It's so hard to be properly elitist today. >> >> >> (note sarcasm is implied) >> >> ________________ >> mark.sec...@uwa.edu.au >> Mark Secker (Ba. Bus. IS/IP, ECU) >> Teaching Facilities Administrator >> Business School IT Services >> >> The University of Western Australia - CRICOS provider number 00126G >> M261 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley 6009 >> Phone 6488 1855, Fax 6488 1055, >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> >> > > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
