“Arguably two of America’s best run companies are Apple Inc. and International Business Machines. Both have achieved high levels of success and shareholders have been rewarded along the way. However, both are treading in different waters and Apple is emerging as the winner going forward. In fact, I’m sure Apple will overtake IBM in value over the next two years. Bottom line: Apple will be bigger than IBM,” Georges Yared, CIO of Yared Investment Research, writes for BloggingStocks.
Yared writes, “Apple will be a bigger company than IBM in terms of market capitalization. As of this writing Apple is just about to hit $100 billion in market cap while IBM is at $158 billion. The direction of both companies are at a variance to each other and Apple is certainly enjoying the strength of a major product cycle.”
Yared writes, “Apple, although only about one-fourth the size of IBM in revenue terms, is growing aggressively. The marketplace will, and has rewarded that aggressive growth by lifting the shares nearly $50 these past two years. But Apple is just beginning.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “MacVicta” for the heads up.]
expect me to be very moved the day Apple will outgrown IBM, that sounds like a childhood dream come true.
not that i care that much today, i will just feel old 😀
I’m amazed at the growth of aapl this past year or so. It’s the energizer bunny of stock. As long as Apple continues to focus on products that work, we should be in for a nice long growth cycle.
MDN word is “numbers” as in the numbers don’t lie.
Yared is a Yahoo
Sing it, Jared, I mean Yared!
“Luna gardenia de plata,
Que en mi serenata,
Te vuelves canción,
Tú que me viste cantando, me ves hoy llorando,
Mi desilusión . . .”
“expect me to be very moved the day Apple will outgrown IBM . . .”
And IBM means movement, in one way at least.
IB-who?
That was then. Now it is Micro$oft. They are the evil Big Brother. The destroyer of worlds. Monopolists who use their market position to coerce others.
First, Apple will lap Dell (pass twice Dell’s market cap) then pass HP — a notable event on its own — and then pass IBM on the way to lapping Dell again.
But passing IBM will be a very publicly commented on event, which will pay huge dividends in the IT world and enterprise computing. It is inevitable that the media will talk up Apple’s assault on Microsoft as the next iconic target in the market cap race.
How sweet it is — to own a substantial number of AAPL shares!
Apple OWES ME, DAMMIT! Leopard! iPhone! Apple OWES ME!
Twisted Mac Freak
“And beans means movement, in one way at least.”
That was then. Now it is Micro$oft.
As bad as IBM was painted, in retrospect they really weren’t that bad. As least compared to what made MS.
Could you see IBM releasing a BOB, doing a Clippy, launching a Vista, or hiring -and promoting to CEO- a freak like Ballmer? And that’s the nice stuff. I won’t mention their dealings with Apple, Spyglass, and Netscape…
Here’s to the day Apple eclipses the rest of the industry.
I’ve been with Apple from the begining
It’s all Steve Jobs, when he goes, it’s all over for Apple.
IBM on the other hand was “Big Blue” before Apple was even a garage concept.
I have been using macs all my life and work for them now. But you guys have the most blind ignorance/arrogance i have ever seen. At this point in their company history Apple and IBM are too totally different companies. You guys are talking about something that might happen as if it has already happened. This arrogance is what turns the overall public off to some mac user. I deal with it every day as a Apple sales person. You guys are making my job harder. Come on guys tell the good stuff along with the bad stuff
The good news for you is that Safari has a spell check. The bad news is that it doesn’t have a grammar check.
Apple relies heavily on other companies to produce it’s products
IBM makes just about everything they sell.
IBM even makes the processors.
Apple uses Intels and has their computers made by Taiwan and Chinese firms.
Apple’s bubble is rising, but it’s going to bust and it won’t have much to go on after that.
Look at Dell, look at Gateway, look at the many here now gone tommorow PC box assemblers.
Apple has a harder time because it has to sell a alternate OS than what’s used in 95% of the world.
Apple’s star will rise, but then it will fall from the retirement of Steve Jobs.
“Open the iPod doors, HAL…”
Oh no i miss spell some words and place them in the wrong order and my a my point is can not be understood
@ Apple employee
With employees like you, who needs IBM (Microsoft).
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It’s not arrogance, it confidence (that Apple is on the right track). A good “sales person” should be able to take advantage of the current situation with Apple, not complain about it.
Anybody who can write without getting subject and verb in agreement is unlikely to have much of a readership. As soon as I see are instead of is, as in “the direction of both companies are at a variance”, where the subject is singular and the article “a” is redundant, is clearly so ignorant of grammar and sentence structure as to be incapable of writing anything coherently. So much for credibility as a writer, much less as a researcher. He should find a competent English teacher at the grade 8 or 9 level and take lessons to heart.
Let’s give microsoft the credit they’re due. Their management, from Gates and the monkey-boy, on down for at least the first six (!) levels of dead wood, are doing their very best to help Apple out. Seriously, look at the longhorn debacle: what more could they have possibly done to help Apple, its customers, and shareholders?
Thanks Bill G, Steve B, Jim A, and the rest of you! Keep up the good work, and I hope it takes several more years before the MSFT shareholders get around to tearing you limb from limb.
-jcr
Let’s give microsoft the credit they’re due. Their management, from Gates and the monkey-boy, on down for at least the first six (!) levels of dead wood, are doing their very best to help Apple out. Seriously, look at the longhorn debacle: what more could they have possibly done to help Apple, its customers, and shareholders?
Thanks Bill G, Steve B, Jim A, and the rest of you! Keep up the good work, and I hope it takes several more years before the MSFT shareholders get around to tearing you limb from limb.
-jcr
Let’s give microsoft the credit they’re due. Their management, from Gates and the monkey-boy, on down for at least the first six (!) levels of dead wood, are doing their very best to help Apple out. Seriously, look at the longhorn debacle: what more could they have possibly done to help Apple, its customers, and shareholders?
Thanks Bill G, Steve B, Jim A, and the rest of you! Keep up the good work, and I hope it takes several more years before the MSFT shareholders get around to tearing you limb from limb.
-jcr
Let’s give microsoft the credit they’re due. Their management, from Gates and the monkey-boy, on down for at least the first six (!) levels of dead wood, are doing their very best to help Apple out. Seriously, look at the longhorn debacle: what more could they have possibly done to help Apple, its customers, and shareholders?
Thanks Bill G, Steve B, Jim A, and the rest of you! Keep up the good work, and I hope it takes several more years before the MSFT shareholders get around to tearing you limb from limb.
-jcr
Don’t trust anyone who says “going forward”.
@TT,
When they were hot in the industry Vs. Apple, we referred to them as
International Biscuit Machines