On October 6, 1997, in response to the question of what he’d do if he was in charge of Apple, Dell founder and CEO Michael Dell stood before a crowd of several thousand IT executives and answered flippantly, “What would I do? I’d shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders.”
A little more than a month later, on November 10, 1997, new Apple Interim CEO (iCEO) Steve Jobs responded, speaking in front of an image of Michael Dell’s bulls-eye covered face, “We’re coming after you, you’re in our sights.”
On January 13, 2006, after a little more than eight years of hard work, Apple Inc. passed Dell, Inc. in market value, $72.13 billion vs. $71.97 billion at market close, respectively.
• 2X: On July 27, 2007, Apple’s value doubled that of Dell’s, $127.81 billion vs. $63.65 billion, respectively.
• 3X: On December 6, 2007, Apple’s market value passed 3 times that of Dell’s, $165.66 billion vs. $54.42 billion, respectively.
• 4X: On May 01, 2008, Apple’s market value quadrupled that of Dell’s, $158.66 billion vs. $38.97 billion, respectively.
• 5X: On February 12, 2009, Apple rose $2.60 to hit a market value of $88.37 billion or 5 times that of Dell’s $17.52 billion.
• 6X: On October 20, 2009, Apple rose $11.21 to $201.07 to hit a market value of $180.12 billion or more than 6 times that of Dell’s $29.97 billion.
• 7X: On January 26, 2010, Apple gained $7.57 to $210.64 to hit a market value of $189.72 billion or more than 7 times that of Dell’s$27.03 billion.
• 8X: On May 21, 2010, Apple gained $1.95 to $239.74 to hit a market value of $218.12 billion or more than 8 times that of Dell’s $25.84 billion.
• 9X: On June 1, 2010, Apple gained $6.89 to $263.77 to hit a market value of $240.01 billion or more than 9 times that of Dell’s $26.29 billion.
• 10X: On September 9, 2010, Apple gained $1.60 to $265.37 to hit a market value of $242.43 billion or more than 10 times that of Dell’s $24.21 billion.
• 11X: On September 23, 2010, Apple rose $3.79, or 1.32%, to $291.54 to hit a market value of $266.34 billion or more than 11 times that of Dell’s $23.81 billion.
• 12X: On January 27, 2011, Apple rose $0.26, or 0.08%, to $344.11 to hit a market value of $317.02 billion or more than 12 times that of Dell’s $26.02 billion.
• 13X: On August 26, 2011, Apple rose $9.86, or 2.64%, to $383.58 to hit a market value of $355.61 billion or more than 13 times that of Dell’s $27.29 billion.
• 14X: On September 20, 2011, Apple rose $1.82, or 0.44%, to $413.45 to hit a market value of $383.31 billion or more than 14 times that of Dell’s $27.15 billion.
• 15X: On February 15, 2012, Apple rose $14.03, or 2.75%, to $523.49 to hit a market value of $486.78 billion or more than 15 times that of Dell’s $32.37 billion.
• 16X: On february 29, 2012, Apple rose $8.43, or 1.575%, to $543.84 to hit a market value of $505.75 billion or more than 16 times that of Dell’s $31.35 billion.
• 17X: On March 12, 2012, Apple rose $3.27, or 0.60%, to $548.44 to hit a market value of $512.33 billion or more than 17 times that of Dell’s $29.94 billion.
• 18X: On March 19, 2012, Apple rose $9.94, or 1.70%, to $595.51 to hit a market value of $553.29 billion or more than 18 times that of Dell’s $30.61 billion.
• 19X: On March 26, 2012, Apple rose $10.93, or 1.83%, to $606.98 to hit a market value of $565.93 billion or more than 19 times that of Dell’s $29.43 billion.
• 20X: On April 3, 2012, Apple rose $10.49, or 1.70%, to $629.12 to hit a market value of $585.93 billion or more than 20 times that of Dell’s $29.21 billion.
• 21X, 22X: On, May 23, 2012, Apple’s market value stood at $520.40 billion or more than 22 times that of Dell’s $22.90 billion.
• 23X: Also on May 23, 2012, Apple’s market value stood at $520.45 billion or more than 23 times that of Dell’s $22.15 billion after Dell shed over 16% following another poor earnings report coupled with weak guidance.
• 24X: And again on May 23, 2012, Apple’s market value was $524.00 billion or more than 24 times that of Dell’s $21.83 billion after Dell shed over 18% following another poor earnings report coupled with weak guidance.
• 25X: On June 4, 2012, Apple’s market value hit $527.65 billion or more than 25 times that of Dell’s $20.99 billion.
• 26X: On June 19, 2012, Apple’s market value hit $550.43 billion or more than 26 times that of Dell’s $21.15 billion.
• 27X: On July 23, 2012, Apple’s market value hit $564.62 billion or more than 27 times that of Dell’s $20.64 billion.
• 28X: On August 2, 2012, Apple’s market value hit $569.75 billion or more than 28 times that of Dell’s $20.06 billion.
• 29X and 30X: On August 22, 2012, Apple’s market value hit $610.02 billion or more than 30 times that of Dell’s $20.29 billion.
• 31X: On August 23, 2012, Apple’s market value hit $621.15 billion or more than 31 times that of Dell’s current $19.66 billion.
• 32X: On August 27, 2012, Apple’s market value hit $635.57 billion or more than 32 times that of Dell’s current $19.61 billion.
• 33X: On August 28, 2012, Apple’s market value stood at $632.71 billion or more than 33 times that of Dell’s current $19.07 billion.
• 34X: Today, September 4, 2012, Apple’s market value stood at $627.28 billion or more than 34 times that of Dell’s current $18.44 billion.
Apple is also a debt-free company and currently has more than six times Dell Inc.’s total worth in cash.
Hello, Mikey? Miiikkkkeeeyyy? Got any snappy retorts now?
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MacDailyNews Take: If you think we’ve grown tired of this, you would be wrong. We will do this hourly, if need be. We are longtime Mac users. We have been subjected to quite a lot. We have a nearly inexhaustible supply to dole out before the universe is once again back in balance.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Curtis W.” and “Yelkin” for the heads up.]
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This story started to get boring once AAPL hit 10X DELL. Now it’s just flogging a dead horse.
Dell’s following Gateway down the crapper. There’s really no reason to care about them anymore.
-jcr
You may have missed MDN’s take:
If you think we’ve grown tired of this, you would be wrong. We will do this hourly, if need be. (…) We have a nearly inexhaustible supply to dole out before the universe is once again back in balance.
Anyone who was a Mac user / fan in 1997 will likely completely agree with MDN.
indeed. Mac owner since 1989. This does not get old.
Yes for me since 1992, It never gets old because there is so much ill will to spread out to those cocky bastards (making PCrap) who wished Apple ill will. The scales are tipping and certainly those with Windows hubris in the day are eating crow now. Now all they can say is “Wha’ happened?”
Go ahead, rub it in more. Started with an Apple ][ in 1980. Was an Apple SYSOP on GEnie for over 8 years and an Apple Independent dealership for 3 years. I always believed, despite the many mistakes Apple made over the years. Don’t let these turkeys, I mean trolls get you down. Criminality breeds stupidity, isn’t it obvious!
I was a Mac user in ’84. The story is still getting old.
-jcr
Fair enough.
I have been a Mac user since 1988 and a shareholder since 1998. I thought Dell’s remark at the time was incredibly mean-spirited. I had to work with a PC-centric IT admin (read: I supplied my own support for my Mac). I tried to explain the Mac advantage but my words fell on deaf ears. I was right, they were wrong and now the worm has turned. This – will – NEVER – get – old!
Mac user since 1984. This story will NEVER get old. But it is sad that it only went up because Dell dropped in value.
The intensity of the disdain, mockery, and obstruction many of us endured for so long requires more multiples.
First Mac was the original LC (Low Cost or Elsie), I think it was 1992, System 6.0.7, multitasking optional!
To increase the value of AAPL by a DELL, these days, AAPL needs a mere 2% jump. Any one significant rumour, news, contract, new product or similar can push the needle that far. Of course, should DELL drop lower than $18B (which is really not an “IF” but a “WHEN”), the AAPL movement needed will be even less than 2%.
will never get tired of this. been using apple stuff since the lisa.
i might suggest to mdn though, that maybe someday they will need to write a script to generate these items!
Thank God Microsoft bailed Apple out during ‘The Second Coming of Steve’.
/Sarcasm
This story will never get old. I look forward to each and every milestone. For those of us who have been enjoying the Mac platform since the beginning, we cannot ever forget the difficult and scary days of the mid-90’s, when so many people like Michael Dell, Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, and their sycophants in the IT, media and financial world were predicting and hoping for Apple’s demise. Just imagine what a dark medieval world that would have been if that had happened…bound and beholden to Microsoft’s poor, drab products and conniving, monopolistic ways. So once again, a big Thank You to the late great Steve Jobs and the Apple Team for their Tremendous Efforts, their Fantastic Achievements and their Continued Successes!
rotten apple will be 34 times worst after losing several more lawsuit worldwide. I bet. there is no possibility that apple will win again out of country.
you just keep thinking that.
Kringlish speaking Scamdung troll alert!
Edward is the new Pat.
Can we quote you on that when you are dead wrong as Michel Dell was? Some people never learn to keep their big fat clueless mouths closed.
No, “edward” – you are just 34x more of a dumbfuck (to use your own language employed in a previous troll post) than the last Shitscum troll that came to this site.
Fsck off.
Your whiny tears nourish me.
I’m not tired of it – I chuckle each time. I’ve been chuckling quite a bit over the last month. Yay!
Can we all agree that this is getting old? Am I going to be checking MDN ten years from now and see “Apple now worth 174 times than Dell”
With any luck, Dell will no longer exist in 10 years.
So, to answer your question, “No.”
Excellent answer!
I guess the holiday weekend is why it took so long to get from 33x to 34x.
Yep, never gets old. Not yet, anyhow.
@John C.
Until we no longer have to confront Dell computers in schools, libraries, public and corporate offices, it matters. When Dell and its foul leavings are gone from the face of the Earth, then MDN can stop with these updates.
Ahhh Schadenfreude. You are so sweet.
I’m subjected to using dells on a daily basis at work. I’m staring at their ridiculous logo as I type this. Die dell, die!
This microsoft mediocrity needs to end. I just had my computer replaced by IT because my last one “expired.” This one will “expire” in one month and will be replaced again. But it’s just the same lame crap over and over. It’s like groundhog day, but without any funny shenanigans or life affirming catharsis.
No pot of gold at the end of the Apple rainbow. I feel for all of those subjected daily involuntarily to Microsoft craptacular mediocreness.
“We will do this hourly, if need be”
Bwahahaha!… I can’t wait to see that! Slapping on another Dell every hour for awhile…
First Mac was an SE 2/20.
This never gets old. It was hard to tell people what we went through back in the early 90’s.
It was a battle with the IT goons to just get them to let us put a Mac on the company network.
I had a university that would not support their Macs. The president of the school had a Mac on his desk. But the support department called for outside support.
How times have changed. You young guys should thank us old guys for keeping up he fight and doing everything we could to keep the faith.
It never gets old.
That faith is being rewarded in spades and only keeps getting better with time as people see they can be freed to choose wisely.
100
I’m with jcr and Keith, it’s old now. Yah, I know, who cares what I think?
Hey, keep it rolling. MDN needs the page hits.
Let’s have a contest guessing how many times this happens during the month of September. The winner gets a Dell computer and an autograph on that framed photograph of Michael Dell.
I say Apple’s multiple is increased eight times.
Haha! I bet he cringes with every milestone.
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
Suck it Mike Dell. You earned this and still more to come.
Would be great if someone setup a donation account to ship a 35x trophy sent special delivery to Mikey.
N.G.O.
For all those who who MDN to “just stop” well clearly you understand the headline, and you click it anyway….how about this, we will continue to celebrate and you can ignore us, rather than try and toll bait us.
FWIW, first Mac 1985.
Re: MDN’s take –
The universe will never be in balance as long as Dell exists.
Let’s all have a great big laugh together. We can laugh all the way to the bank. Thank you, Apple!
LOL this never gets old. Hey MDN how about putting a target over Mickey’s face? It would be nice to see Mickey witha bullseye superimposed. Just when you morphed the Titanic captain with Monkey boy Ballmer.
Boring? Hell No! It is my favorite… love to read Apple’s new level of Market Value against Dell.
MDN, please keep doing this! Thank you.
Apple User since 1982. I will never be bored after what all Dell Users (and other PC Users) throw to us during 25 years …
And developping on Dell’s since 2005, these computers are really crap … but don’t have the choice thanks to a lobotomized IT Service …
And after his new comments against Apple in september 2012, Mr Dell should work in the Ballmer’s monkey kingdom 😉
Wow, Dell has lost nearly half it’s value since Feb 2012…