Comments on: Numbers, Volume 10 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2009/04/23/numbers-volume-10/ One foot in the muck, the other in utopia Thu, 24 May 2012 14:45:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: RIA Weekly » RIA Weekly #49 - RIA Data-pipes, Selling RIAs http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2009/04/23/numbers-volume-10/comment-page-1/#comment-317042 RIA Weekly » RIA Weekly #49 - RIA Data-pipes, Selling RIAs Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:16:43 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2009/04/23/numbers-volume-10/#comment-317042 [...] “Strobe” project. If you’re interested, I gave a small amount of commentary in this week’s Numbers post. Ryan has a small write-up as [...] [...] “Strobe” project. If you’re interested, I gave a small amount of commentary in this week’s Numbers post. Ryan has a small write-up as [...]

]]> By: Tarus http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2009/04/23/numbers-volume-10/comment-page-1/#comment-316571 Tarus Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:05:05 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2009/04/23/numbers-volume-10/#comment-316571 To put IBM's profits in an even better perspective, check out Apple (AAPL): "Over the past three months, Apple enjoyed its best-ever non-holiday quarter. $8.16 billion in revenue, up 9 percent from last year. Profits of $1.2 billion, up 20 percent from a year ago. Apple beat consensus estimates by about 24 cents per share" As of today, AAPL has a market cap of $111B compared to IBM's $136B - roughly the same, yet IBM has almost twice as much profit. Most people think that Apple is highly profitable, but put into this context ... To put IBM's profits in an even better perspective, check out Apple (AAPL):

"Over the past three months, Apple enjoyed its best-ever non-holiday quarter. $8.16 billion in revenue, up 9 percent from last year. Profits of $1.2 billion, up 20 percent from a year ago. Apple beat consensus estimates by about 24 cents per share"

As of today, AAPL has a market cap of $111B compared to IBM's $136B – roughly the same, yet IBM has almost twice as much profit. Most people think that Apple is highly profitable, but put into this context …

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