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Re: Microsoft Windows98 - Make your own decision.
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From: John Noble <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Microsoft Windows98 - Make your own decision.
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At 10:22 AM -0600 1/9/98, Virginia Metze wrote:
>Those are the Fortune 500 figures which they identify as total revenues and
>which I take to mean gross. Incidentally, Microsoft is 172, IBM #6.
>Destruction of Microsoft's Word revenues, which accounts for a lot of their
>profit, is what
>would really seriously damage them, and note the push of IBM into the
>desktop applications market...
>
>And IBM is going to be way out in front of everyone no matter how it
>is measured.
>
I share Virginia's sentiment about MS-bashing, but if I were going to
measure market power I'd look at profit margins. These figures are provided
by Hoovers Stockscreener http://www.stockscreener.com which is a lot of fun
to play with.
Market Value (mils.):
General Electric Company 243000.0
The Coca-Cola Company 164792.0
Microsoft Corporation 157473.0
Exxon Corporation 146881.0
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone 135252.0
Merck 127673.0
Intel 121575.0
Philip Morris Companies Inc. 112867.0
Royal Dutch Petroleum Company 112039.0
The Procter & Gamble Company 108281.0
Toyota Motor Corporation 105326.0
IBM 102912.0
Revenues (mils) (for mkt caps over 100 bil):
Exxon Corporation 119507.0
Toyota Motor Corporation 98740.6
General Electric Company 86658.0
Royal Dutch Petroleum Company 85784.7
IBM 77928.0
Philip Morris Companies Inc. 71512.0
Nippon T & T 71262.4
AT&T Corp. 52839.0
The Procter & Gamble Company 36216.0
Intel Corporation 25003.0
Merck & Co., Inc 22810.9
The Coca-Cola Company 18610.0
Microsoft Corporation 12193.0
Pfizer Inc 12169.0
PROFIT MARGIN (for mkt caps over 100 bil.):
Microsoft Corporation 30.4%
Intel Corporation 24.7%
Merck & Co., Inc. 19.6%
The Coca-Cola Company 18.8%
Pfizer Inc 17.1%
AT&T Corp. 11.0%
The Procter & Gamble Company 9.5%
General Electric Company 9.3%
Philip Morris Companies Inc. 9.1%
IBM 7.1%
Royal Dutch Petroleum Company 6.9%
Exxon Corporation 6.4%
Toyota Motor Corporation 3.2%
Nippon T & T 2.9%
John Noble
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