Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Apple is worth more than the GDP of Portugal

Apple is now the most valuable company ever, having reached, on Monday, the highest market capitalization in history. With every action in the $ 664.74, the company founded by Steve Jobs is valued at 622,600 million dollars (504 billion euros), now worth more than the GDP of some countries, including Portugal.

The portuguese GDP was around 170,000 million in 2011. All in all, Apple is worth 334,000 million.

The greatness of this company is indeed impressive. Apple is worth more than the economy of several Member States of the Eurozone, such as Belgium, Ireland and Luxembourg. Worth almost as much as Switzerland, twenty world economy. More: Apple already amounts to 50% of GDP of Spain.

To get an idea of ​​the progress achieved by the brand in the apple market, Apple was worth 77 times less (8 billion dollars) when it was founded by Jobs.

With this record, the mark of Apple dethroned Microsoft. In 1999, the company Bill Gates amounted to 618,900 million dollars.

Each share of Apple is now worth 33 times more than the titles of Facebook. The performance of the social network of Mark Zuckerberg in scholarship has disappointed almost since entering the market in May, with the company now worth only half of what that time.

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