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Apple Becomes Most Valuable Company of All Time
- AGBeat 14y agois it sustainable? does it matter if it's sustainable?
- IsaacL 14y agoMost valuable public company. Saudi Aramco is worth over $7 trillion.
- qq66 14y agoTo be fair, the huge values of the oil companies are largely the result of tremendous state-owned assets that were "privatized" through backroom deals. Every upstream oil company is effectively a set of operations and a dubiously acquired asset trove joined in one entity. If you strip out assets and talk about what the most valuable "company operation" is it's certainly Apple by a long margin.
- mdonahoe 14y agoWhat about inflation adjusted Standard Oil?
- calciphus 14y agoExcept...not really. Microsoft in 1999 was worth $620Bn, which in 2012 dollars would be around $853Bn. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9230400/Apple_not_most_valuable_firm_ever_says_press_watchdog http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9230400/Apple_not_mos...