Daniel Eran Dilger
A listing of Silicon Valley's top companies points out that Apple now brings in more revenue ($174 billion) than second place Hewlett Packard and third place Google combined, and earns more money ($37 billion) than the rest of the top five together.
The SV150 is compiled by the region's San Jose Mercury News from Bloomberg data and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings of the companies
Despite its leadership position in revenues and profits, investors have valued Apple with a market capitalization that's only about 70 percent of the combined value of HP, Google, Intel and Cisco.
The region's eleventh largest firm, Facebook, has a market cap that's nearly a third the size of Apple's, despite revenues that are just 4 percent of the iPhone maker's, and profits that are less than 4 percent of Apple's earnings.
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Apple’s down $3.87. This must be why.
EDIT: Instead of direct sarcasm, take it now as semi-direct pseudo-sarcasm.
1) That title doesn't do this fact justice. I'd think something like: "[SIZE=4]Apple earns more profit than next four companies combined[/SIZE]" would be more powerful. I also don't see a reason to use Incorporated in the title. 2) Interesting that Google has a higher profit margin than Apple [S]and that MS doesn't make the top 11.[/S] edit: I see now this only for Silicon Valley. [quote name="Tallest Skil" url="/t/178282/sv150-apple-inc-earns-more-than-hp-google-intel-cisco-combined#post_2515668"]Apple’s down $3.87. This must be why. [/quote] That was close on Friday. Everything I monitor was down that day, and most were down more than the 0.74% that AAPL was down.
I lose days all the time. The passing of time means next to nothing to me. Thanks for the fix.
[quote name="SolipsismX" url="/t/178282/sv150-apple-inc-earns-more-than-hp-google-intel-cisco-combined#post_2515669"]1) 2) Interesting that Google has a higher profit margin than Apple [/quote] No surprise since their research and development costs for consumer products are virtually nonexistent; deferred to Apple and dependent upon Xerox.:smokey:
[quote name="MacBook Pro" url="/t/178282/sv150-apple-inc-earns-more-than-hp-google-intel-cisco-combined#post_2515673"] No surprise since their research and development costs for consumer products are virtually nonexistent; deferred to Apple and dependent upon Xerox.:smokey:[/quote] I know you're kidding but it's also a good time to note that Google is one of the top spenders of R&D int his industry by both a dollar value and by a percentage of their sales. [LIST] [*] gigaom.com/2012/01/30/how-apple-gets-away-with-lower-rd-spending/ [*] http://www.ciozone.com/index.php/Editorial-Research/Top-50-Technology-R&D-Spenders/50-Biggest-R.html [/LIST] Apple has been increasing their R&D dramatically so I do expect some great things from them within a couple years.