04 September 2012

Apple Amazingly Dominant

Apple became the world’s most valuable-ever company two weeks ago. It is worth $624bn, more than all the listed companies in Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain together. The employer of 63,300 people – each valued at $10m – is more valuable than all the shares available to investors in the MSCI China index, the international benchmark.
 
Via this post.

Given that Apple must have many employees who contribute below average amounts to market valuation, the contribution of the core and difficult to replace employees to market valuation must be high indeed.

According to a recent article at Fortune, Apple sells 8.8% of mobile phones, but it has 73% of profits in the market. Samsung sells 23.5% of phones and earns 26% of profits. Everyone else is barely breaking even or losing money.

Via this post.


 

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