Back in March, Microsoft was about $50 billion in advance of Apple in marketplace cap. That gap was even now enormous, nonetheless it was the closest the two had been in that measurement of value in decades. The trend was distinct: I predicted that Apple would pass Microsoft,
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Not even I assumed it will be this shortly.
Today, Apple has just handed Microsoft in industry cap. Now, the stocks have already been fluctuating very a bit,
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Some publications noted this milestone happened back again in April, but that was a somewhat distinct metric. Which was the marketplace cap on the S&P 500, which uses float-adjusted numbers. Today’s milestone is straight-up marketplace cap: numbers of shares outstanding multiplied by share price.
Of course, just how much this number means is a issue of debate. The truth is that it really doesn’t mean that much in terms how strong or weak a company is from a financial perspective. However it is a good indicator of trends, and obviously stock performance. That trend is obviously that above the previous five years or so, Apple has been destroying Microsoft is gaining stock price.
Over those past five years, Microsoft’s stock has long been largely stagnant: it’s up about 4%. Apple’s stock, meanwhile,
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Regardless of how the market closes nowadays, you can likely expect Apple industry cap to surge in advance in the coming days. A week from this coming Monday is Steve Jobs’ keynote at Apple’s WWDC event. There, he’s widely expected to unveil the new iPhone — and undoubtedly some other things. The mere speculation about what he’ll unveil will fuel the price. Microsoft, meanwhile,
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Boom! Fanboys go wild.
Update: And as the markets near closing time, Apple is now nearly $3 billion forward of Microsoft.
Update 2: And sure enough,
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