Pretentiousness is never you friend, particularly so when you missed the point.

Thank you so kindly for making an amusing scene in 30 year old movie into an excuse to bag on some Americans inability to spell.

Anyway, I would certainly vote to keep track of their relative market caps as well as annual revenue and profits. But Dell is much more fun because Lee Kun-hee never said what Mikey Dell did.

@Shock Me

Apple hit the 2X multiplier when Dell was worth 63.8 Billion. Dell has lost 70 freaking percent of it’s value since that day.

In my opinion, Dell is still overvalued.

“Over? Who said its over? Did we give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? No! It’s not over. It’s over when we say it’s over…”
(guess the movie quote, for those of you too young to understand the reference is to a movie)

Closing Price 12.34 Volume (000) 41,234,400
Day’s High 12.56 Currency US Dollar
Day’s Low 12.20 Exchange NASDAQ GS
Open 12.56 Date 10/06/97

Apple’s price was 4.37

Apple Multiples of Dell Market Value, over time

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“When asked about his famous statement on Tuesday at a 2011 conference in San Francisco, Dell paused to ponder the question as the audience laughed loudly,” Milian reports. “‘It’s a great question and a great opportunity to clarify what I said,’ Dell said. ‘The meaning of my answer was that I am the CEO of Dell. I don’t think of being a CEO of any other company… I am not a CEO for hire,’ the Dell chief said.”

http://macdailynews.com/2011/10/20/14-years-later-michael-dell-tries-to-walk-back-apple-attack-but-fails/

BTW – BTW, what was Dell worth compared to Apple on October 6, 1997?

/s