Apple market cap higher than MSFT, HP & DELL combined

Looking at Apple’s amazing performance over the last decade, this Wolfram|Alpha computation (screen grab below) compares Apple’s current market cap to that of Microsoft, HP and Dell. Apple is currently valued at more than all three of those companies combined.

I remember Michael Dell’s 1997 comment about Apple after Steve Jobs came back as part of the NeXT deal:

In 1997, shortly after Mr. Jobs returned to Apple, the company he helped start in 1976, Dell’s founder and chairman, Michael S. Dell, was asked at a technology conference what might be done to fix Apple, then deeply troubled financially.

“What would I do?” Mr. Dell said to an audience of several thousand information technology managers. “I’d shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders.”

 

Posted: June 14th, 2011
Filed under: Apple, Competition, Finance Tags: dell, michael dell, microsoft, next, steve jobs | No Comments »

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