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Nice working "beleaguered" into the piece.

Jul 09, 09 - 02:42 pm Comment from: Anonymous©

Okay, I glanced thru the list quickly, and I counted 62 of those 252 larger revenue companies actually made a bigger profit.

Jul 09, 09 - 02:47 pm Comment from: Predrag

So, Apple is No. 63, based on profit. Not bad...

And if we look at their market cap (i.e. what Wall Street thinks the company is worth), it is no. 19 out of all companies traded on American stock markets (that includes ADRs as well). Not to mention that their market cap is around 60% of the No. 2, MSFT ($122B vs. $200B). Then again, AAPL was very close to $200B market cap at one point in Dec 2007...

Jul 09, 09 - 02:48 pm Comment from: DreamTheEndless

"(Dell: $61.1b revenue, $2.478b profit; Apple: $32.5b revenue, $4.834b profit)."

Here's an old formula from my retail days that let us know how much money we were making vs. how much we were spending....

Profit margin = profit/retail (What percentage of your money coming in was profit?)

For example - if a candy bar costs 27 cents and retails for $1.00 [(1-0.27)/1.00=0.73] then the profit margin was 73%...

Profit margin for Dell*: 4.06%
Profit margin for Apple*: 14.87%

* According to MDN's numbers.

Nice to see Exxon Mobil high on the list, I feared they might have suffered recently. (whew) Now I can sleep easy tonight.

Jul 09, 09 - 04:20 pm Comment from: Jim - TIV

hmmmm.... just like the link of this article I send to MDN two days ago...

Good to see that all the oil companies are doing well . . . they must be getting a portion of the revenue from "Ice Road Truckers".

Hmm, seems like the first 100 companies has a lower profit margin than Apple.
Wouldn't be surprised if Apple was in the profit margin top-10.

Dell market cap 25.7B
apple market cap 121.6B

Jul 09, 09 - 05:08 pm Comment from: mike_in_helsinki

Useless shit list that means nothing.

Market Capatilzation is meaningless in a reality context because it is really a measure of "public opinion" (shareholder opinion) of the companies prospects it doesnt do anything in real money terms (though it does help the company get loans and what not).

As far as the sales numbers remember the biggest retailers, and food service industries make pennies on the dollar after everything is said and done, but they are the biggest because they sell more units of whatever. Which means the demand for whatever is there..

The caveat to that is of course that only making 4% in effectively the same industry means that the company probably needs to fire a few (hundred, thousand) middle management and streamline some processes.

So those enamored with market cap and profit % - just look at Enron and the pre-booking of future profits or mark to market (what apple does or did with the iphone). Maybe apple will come up with a way to control the weather with the iphone, or perhaps do rolling blackouts in california from your iphone.

Apple made 1.2bn in profit, lost 7.4bn in cash

HP only made 1.7bn in profit, gained 2.6bn in cash

Dell only made 270m, but gained 1.3bn in cash.

So again reality is that there is no spoon, or liver, or spleen or whatever jobs had replaced.

Jul 09, 09 - 07:11 pm Comment from: BC Kelly

Nothing against the 72 in U.S. above Apple

But make room

Not too far up the road, maybe sooner than later

As more Folks finally discover Mac's Reality of Authentic Computing

(whoa, pretty good)

And iPhone becomes all it can be

Globally

Apple make Top 25

Maybe more

And not break a sweat


Change The World™



BC

6 of the top 7 are oil companies!!! What does that tell us????

Jul 10, 09 - 03:43 am Comment from: powsurfer

Can anyone tell me where I could get information on the number of iPhones 3Gs and 3G sold world wide and the number sold in each country etc.??
Any info would help!
Thanks world MAC users and MacDailyNews.

Julian