While market cap isn’t always the best tool to evaluate company vs. company in value, Apple’s estimate value of $301 billion isn’t to go unnoticed. Robin Wauters from TechCrunch took a look at Microsoft’s, Hewlett Packards, and Dell’s market caps in the PC industry to see of the powerhouses could stack up against Cupertino. Apple is doing pretty good for themselves; with a combined market cap of $302.4 billion, Microsoft (~$200.3 billion), HP (~$72.8 billion), and Dell (~29.3 billion) only have a solid billion over the competition if the estimates are accurate, and it’s only a matter of time before Apple has another record quarter to surpass the trio.
Right now, the difference in market capitalization between Apple and Microsoft is roughly $100 billion. That’s more than the combined worth of Research In Motion, Nokia, Netflix and eBay.
Or: $100 billion is the sum of markets cap of Amazon and Adobe.
Or: $100 billion is only $15 billion shy of Intel’s total market cap.
Apple has currently raked in $51.41 billion for the year, posting a record revenue of $26.74 billion in January and a revenue of $24.67 billion in March, with just under 70% of that being iOS device sales alone. In comparison, Microsoft posted revenues of $16.43 billion in April, and $19.95 billion in January, earning $36.38 million in their second and third fiscal quarters, with revenue deriving from Microsoft Office, Server, and Windows.
During this year’s WWDC keynote, Phil Schiller announced that the PC industry shrank by 1%, as Mac sales grew by 28%.
[via TechCrunch]
