“Reflecting a strong 2008 in which its earnings — if not its stock price — jumped sharply, Apple this week made its first appearance in the top 100 of the Fortune 500 since Steve Jobs’ return,” Philip Elmer-DeWitt reports for Fortune.
“Apple has been a Fortune 500 company since 1983, but it fell off the top 100 on Fortune magazine’s list of America’s 500 largest companies in 1995, while Jobs was running NeXT,” Elmer-DeWitt reports.
“Apple jumped an impressive 32 spots this year to land at No. 71,” Elmer-DeWitt reports.
“Among Apple’s largest U.S. competitors, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) came in at No. 9, Dell (DELL) at No. 33 and Microsoft (MSFT) at No. 35,” Elmer-DeWitt reports.
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