Apple is no.1?!

Did anyone else hear the news about Apple beating Coca-Cola?

 

This news Apple Overtakes Coca-Cola as World

The entire list is interesting.

Apple
Google
Coca Cola
IBM
Microsoft
GE
McDonald's
Samsung
Intel
Toyota

 

I am surprised to see Apple is valued more than Google, but it makes sense I guess.

 

That list is just going by the value of the brand name.

Look at this list of the most valuable companies by market capitalization:
List of corporations by market capitalization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

Most valuable brand ... what about the richest companies in the world apple is on the 19th place


List Rank
Company Name
Revenues ($b)
Profits ($b)

1 Royal Dutch Shell 481.7 26.6
2 Wal-Mart Stores 469.2 17.0
3 Exxon Mobil 449.9 44.9
4 Sinopec Group 428.2 8.2
5 China National Petroleum 408.6 18.2
6 BP 388.3 11.6
7 State Grid 298.4 12.3
8 Toyota Motor 265.7 11.6
9 Volkswagen 247.6 27.9
10 Total 234.3 13.7
11 Chevron 233.9 26.2
12 Glencore Xstrata 214.4 1.0
13 Japan Post Holdings 190.9 6.8
14 Samsung Electronics 178.6 20.6
15 E.ON 169.8 2.8
16 Phillips 66 169.6 4.1
17 ENI 167.9 10.0
18 Berkshire Hathaway 162.5 14.8
19 Apple 156.5 41.7

 

^those brands aren't valuable, though. I bet most people haven't heard of Sinopec so as a brand its not worth much.

 

Why does anyone care whose brand name is more "valuable"? How does that affect anyone on this forum? None of these brand names are for sale, and even if they were, nobody here would be buying.

 

i would currently offering walmart for 1.99, for the next 30min, get while its hot

 

1. Apple is the most valuable company in the world. (share price times number of shares)
2. Apple is the second most profitable company in the world. (money in minus money out)
3. Apple is rated as the most valuable brand in the world.

No. Revenue doesn't mean anything. I can have a company with 500 billion dollars in revenue, but one trillion dollars in losses. According to this chart you would say that it is the "richest" company in the world. But it would actually be the poorest.

Now look at the second number, profits. That is how much money each company made last year. Ordering that list by profits paints a much different picture.

 

A billion people in China may beg to differ.

 

Was it valuable, or recognizable? Apple has really been pushing the last few years to have an increased global presence (just look at the last iPhone global launch). Right or wrong (or love or hate for some people), they've been able to set themselves apart in terms of instant recognition, whatever else you think of them, and that alone makes people look twice at anything they produce.

 

The Sinopec brand isn't very valuable. It is a state-run oil enterprise. As far as a brand to consumers, it is just gas stations. Really, who cares? If most of the gas stations where I live changed their name from Sinopec to whatever else, I don't think their business would be affected. Big company? Yes. Valuable brand? No.