Apple reported net income of 93.74 billion U.S. dollars in its 2024 fiscal year, down from the highest net income to date in 2022. Apple’s global revenue amounted to 391 billion U.S. dollars in that same year. Founded in 1976 in California by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, Apple has over the years developed into one of the most valuable brands worldwide. The fiscal year end of the company is September, 30th. Apple’s products The product that contributed most to Apple’s success is the iPhone, which brought in 52 billion U.S. dollars sales revenue in the first quarter of 2019 alone. Revenues generated from iPhone sales consistently make up around 50 percent of Apple’s overall revenue in recent years. Other major Apple products include consumer electronic devices such as the Mac computers, iPad, Apple Watch and the smart speaker HomePod. Apple’s service products, such as the iTunes Store and iCloud, are becoming a greater part of the company’s business and provides new sources of revenue stream.

Apple net income for the twelve months ending March 31, 2025 was $97.294B, a 3.08% decline year-over-year. Apple annual net income for 2024 was $93.736B, a 3.36% decline from 2023. Apple annual net income for 2023 was $96.995B, a 2.81% decline from 2022. Apple annual net income for 2022 was $99.803B, a 5.41% increase from 2021.

Apple’s total revenue amounted to around *** billion U.S. dollars in their 2024 financial year, a decrease from the historical record of ****** billion U.S. dollars in financial year 2022. Apple’s annual revenue quadrupled in the last ten years. The fiscal year end of the company is September, 30th. Apple’s dramatic growth Constant waves of innovative products underly Apple’s drastic growth over the years: the Mac computer, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch are all revolutionary products that started their own dynasties and enjoy immense commercial success. Apple’s stock tells an even more impressive story: over the last decade, Apple’s share price has grown more than tenfold and prompted it to become the first trillion-dollar company in terms of market capitalization. As of 2024, Apple is the most valuable brand worldwide. Apple store: a unique invention Huge glass panes, minimalistic design – these are the signature characteristics Apple stores are known for. Opened in the early 2000s, the Apple store contributes yet again to Apple’s success story: it was the fastest retailer worldwide to surpass the one-billion-U.S. dollar annual sales trademark and showcases Apple’s diverse products in hundreds of locations around the globe now. Apple’s home market the United States has the highest concentration of these stores – there are ** Apple stores in California alone when looking at the number of Apple stores by state .

Apple revenue for the twelve months ending March 31, 2025 was $400.366B, a 4.91% increase year-over-year. Apple annual revenue for 2024 was $391.035B, a 2.02% increase from 2023. Apple annual revenue for 2023 was $383.285B, a 2.8% decline from 2022. Apple annual revenue for 2022 was $394.328B, a 7.79% increase from 2021.

In 2024, Meta Platforms generated a revenue of over 164 billion U.S. dollars, up from 134 billion USD in 2023. The majority of Meta’s profits come from its advertising revenue.Meta’s total Family of Apps revenue for 2022 amounted to 114 billion U.S. dollars. Additionally, Meta’s Reality Labs, the company’s VR division, generated around 2.1 billion dollars. Meta’s marketing expenditure for 2022 amounted to just over 15 billion U.S. dollars, up from 14 billion U.S. dollars in the previous year. Increasing audience base despite privacy misgivings Meta’s user numbers have continued to grow steadily throughout past years. In the fourth quarter of 2022, there was a total of 3.74 billion worldwide users across all of Meta’s platforms. For this same time frame, the company recorded 407 million monthly active users across Europe. Downloads of Meta’s app Oculus, for which virtual reality headsets are required, increased greatly from 2020 to 2021, reaching a total of 10.62 million downloads by the end of last year. Up until 2021, downloads had grown in a steady manner but from 2020 to 2021, they more than doubled.User numbers have increased despite data security issues and past controversy such as the Cambridge Analytica scandal in 2018. There remains skepticism surrounding the idea of the metaverse in which Meta aims to immerse itself. Of surveyed adults in the United States, the majority said that they were concerned about their privacy if Meta were to succeed in creating the metaverse.

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Apple’s iPhone sales accounted for around ** percent of the company’s overall revenue in the first quarter of fiscal year 2025, the largest share of all Apple products. Over the years, services as well as wearables, home and accessories have made a growing contribution to Apple’s net sales. Apple’s revenue growth amid the pandemic In the first quarter of financial year 2025, Apple’s global revenue reached around *** billion U.S. dollars. The Americas are Apple’s largest regional market and contributed to around ** percent of the firm’s sales in that quarter. Who are Apple’s competitors? Having a broad family of products, Apple competes with different companies in different markets. Samsung is Apple’s largest adversaries in the global smartphone market, where the company had a share of almost ** percent in the second quarter of 2024. Similarly, Apple has a solid position in the PC market without a leading advantage. The situation is reversed in the tablet market and the smartwatch market, where Apple has remained the leader since the early days, staying ahead of Samsung, Huawei, Amazon, etc.

Nokia experienced a net profit of over ***** million euros in 2024. This is an significant increase from the previous year, when the company registered a profit of **** billion dollars. The Finnish company once known for cell phones has shifted its focus to providing telecommunication networks equipment and services - a market which was forecast to grow through 2020. A strong player in networks technologyAs part of its drive into networks technology, Nokia acquired communications equipment company Alcatel-Lucent in 2016 for **** billion euros. This merger provided Nokia with access to inventive research for technology hardware and equipment so it could compete against industry rivals Huawei and Ericsson. Nokia’s business segment Nokia Networks, which Alcatel-Lucent was integrated into, generated the vast majority of Nokia's revenue in fiscal year 2020. Nokia leaves the phone businessNokia has experienced several directional changes during the last few decades. Once a successful phone manufacturer in the early 2000s, the company struggled with increasingly overwhelming competition from Apple and Samsung, leading to a decreasing share of the mobile phone market. Adding to Nokia’s struggle within the mobile phone market was remaining committed to their own mobile operating system (OS) Symbian for too long before switching to Google’s Android OS. After a fruitless partnership with Microsoft, Nokia sold its waning mobile and devices segment to Microsoft and focused on network infrastructure. In recent years, Nokia has invested much of its research and development on 5G cellular network technology.

In the fiscal year 2024, Microsoft Corporation reported a net income of over ***** billion U.S. dollars, an increase from fiscal year 2023 figure of ***** billion U.S. dollars. Microsoft’s sales revenue also peaked in fiscal year 2024 at *** billion U.S. dollars. Microsoft Corporation Since its foundation in 1975, Microsoft has grown into one of the most successful tech firms in the world and has experienced decades of continued success. Some of the company’s major business ventures include its Windows operating system, its software packages such as Microsoft Office, its lines of consumer electronics, as well as newer offerings such as cloud computing solutions. Since 2014, Microsoft’s intelligent cloud segment has experienced consistent growth and has become the biggest revenue earner for the company. The technology industry As technology becomes further integrated into nearly all aspects of daily life, companies such as Apple, Alphabet, and Microsoft have grown into some of the most powerful entities in the world. Spending in the IT industry alone amounts to trillions of dollars each year, meaning that these tech giants are well-positioned for continued success. The fiscal year-end of the company is June, 30th.

The momentum of Databricks (not yet public) and Snowflake to re-write the reality of data in the Cloud truly is a sight to behold. Snowflake fell in extended trading on Wednesday after the company released third-quarter results that beat estimates but offered light product revenue guidance. However its stock price later bounced back even stronger. Go figure? A lot of hype… SNOW Up 10%, it’s really in a league of its own for growth in the Cloud. With a market cap close to $50 billion (data taken from its stock price in Excel), it’s hard to evaluate the business fundamentals away from the hype. The promise of unified data is very tantalizing indeed, yet when Databricks goes public, I don’t see Snowflake dominating like it has been in recent times. The Company’s platform enables customers to consolidate data into a single source to drive business insights, build data-driven applications and share data. Snowflake said it anticipates product revenue will be between $535 and $540 million in its fourth quarter, short of the $553 million expected by analysts estimates according to StreetAccount. Yet investors don’t seem to mind. Snowflake Inc. Shares have lost about 59.7% since the beginning of the year versus the S&P 500's decline of -17%. The recent low was $119 in June, 2022. You can read their Earnings here. Snowflake Earnings Product revenue of $522.8 million in the third quarter, representing 67% year-over-year growth Remaining performance obligations of $3.0 billion, representing 66% year-over-year growth 7,292 total customers Net revenue retention rate of 165% 287 customers with trailing 12-month product revenue greater than $1 million Revenue for the quarter was $557.0 million, representing 67% year-over-year growth. I can see why Snowflake is so popular though. Snowflake is Wildly Popular Currently Snowflake is wildly popular as one of the best growth stocks, . Snowflake provides an end to end data warehousing solution. There is practically no limit to the amount of databases and warehouses you can create (Ofcourse, you need Snowflake credits for creating and using warehouses). It's a highly scalable solution that adheres to all the data security best practices. I do believe Databricks is the better company in the end, but time will tell. Why would this company have a market cap of $50 billion already? They have 5,000 employees, lose money at a good clip and will experience significant competition in the coming years. Net Loss is Concerning Snowflake may not respond well to the significant slowdown in spending we are likely to see in 2023. It needs to significantly reset to be tempting. It does have 287 customers with trailing 12-month product revenue greater than $1 million which is encouraging. It’s growth in the 45-50% range is still very impressive for a company of its size. After 2023 we’ll have a much better idea of the real momentum of Snowflake. Snowflake reported 34% year-over-year growth in the number of customers, reaching 7,292 in the reported quarter. The company added 28 Forbes Global 2000 customers in the reported quarter. Snowflake signed 14 new customers with $1 million in trailing 12-month product revenues in the reported quarter. The real question is how much will it slow down in 2023. The Data Cloud is still Nascent While it’s appealing to invest in first-movers like Snowflake or later Databricks, how will competition and the Data cloud continue to evolve? It’s fairly hard to predict. Snowflake is not a traditional SaaS model, it’s pay as you go consumption based. It’s not yet clear if this is the right business model for optimal profitability. 93% of revenue is consumption-based Revenue recognized only as consumption occurs In many cases, rollover of unused capacity permitted, generally on the purchase of additional capacity Contract durations increasing along with larger customer commitments Primarily billed annually in advance with some on-demand in arrears If you are uncertain of Snowflake’s growth you can visit their visual Earnings PDF. The TAM of the Data Cloud is big enough for room for a lot of different kinds of companies and competitors. In our opinion, Snowflake is in a prime position to compete with AMD, one of the best value stocks. To read more about other Cloud Computing companies, check out: Apple Fair Value Apple P/E Apple EV/EBITDA Microsoft Fair Value Microsoft P/E Microsoft EV/EBITDA Tesla Fair Value Tesla P/E Tesla EV/EBITDA Amazon Fair Value Amazon P/E Amazon EV/EBITDA Netflix Fair Value Netflix P/E Netflix EV/EBITDA

In the first quarter of Apple's 2025 fiscal year, sales of Apple Mac computers generated around * billion U.S. dollars in revenue, up from *** billion U.S. dollars of the same quarter in the previous year. PCs were the first electronic devices developed by the company, and today the Mac lineup includes the MacBook Air, Pro, iMac, Mac mini, and Mac Pro.

IBM generated over 62 billion U.S. dollars in revenue in 2024, an increase of around 1 billion U.S. dollars on the previous year. The firm's yearly revenue has trended downward over the past decade, having previously exceeded the 100 billion U.S. dollar mark. Despite this, the firm remains one of the most valuable technology brands in the world behind the likes of Apple ,Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. IBM’s response to a shifting marketA tech giant since the nineties, IBM has faced struggles adjusting to changes in the marketplace. Recently the company has focused on what it terms “strategic imperatives”: getting rid of low-margin businesses and investing in high-margin businesses. At the end of 2018, for example, IBM sold IBM WebSphere Commerce to HCL Technologies for 1.8 billion U.S. dollars. IBM is still very profitable, although not at the level as between 2006 and 2012. Reflecting the changing demands of digital transformation, the largest source of IBM’s revenue for fiscal year 2020 now comes from its technology services and cloud platforms business segment, which specializes in helping organizations integrate their traditional infrastructure into a multicloud environment.

In 2024, Amazon Web Services (AWS) generated ****** billion US dollars with its cloud services. From 2013 until today, the annual revenue of AWS cloud computing and hosting solutions continually increased.

Amazon—additional information Amazon.com went online in 1995, initially as a book store, and achieved almost immediate success. In 1998, the store expanded to include a music and video store and different other products, such as apparel and consumer electronics, in the following years. The company is the undisputed leader of the e-retail market in the United States, ranking ahead of walmart.com and apple.com in terms of revenue. Amazon Web Services In 2006, AWS launched as a cloud computing platform to provide online services. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and Amazon S3, which provide large virtual computing capacity, are the most well-known of these services. The company has dozens of locations in ** different regions across the world and is continually expanding its global infrastructure to ensure low latency through proximity to the user. From these data centers, Amazon is offering more than *** fully featured services to its global customer base. Video streaming service Netflix is one of AWS’s largest customers, using Amazon’s services to store their content on servers throughout the world. Among its more than *********** active users, AWS also lists other well-known organizations from various industries, such as Disney, the UK Ministry of Justice, Kellogg’s, Guardian News and Media, and the European Space Agency.

The global revenue made by Samsung Electronics between 2005 and 2023 has overall significantly grown. In 2024, Samsung Electronics recorded a revenue of over *** trillion South Korean won, although only the second-highest recorded revenue for the Korean giant in the given period, but also the company's highest revenue reported in U.S. dollars with approximately *** billion U.S. dollars. Samsung Electronics and subsidiaries Samsung was founded in 1938 and originally dealt with groceries as well as the production noodles. It quickly diversified into various sectors including insurance and retail and became the present day corporation in 1947, after a joint investment in Samsung Mulsan Gongsa. The headquarters are found in Seoul, South Korea. There are several subsidiaries that account for the variety of enterprises that the Samsung Group undertakes including Samsung Life Insurance and Samsung Heavy Industries. Samsung Electronics is one of the largest subsidiaries of the Samsung Group, making much over half of the group’s revenue. Samsung Electronics is headquartered in Suwon, South Korea and has assembly plants and sales networks in ** countries. Samsung Electronics generated most of its revenue in the Americas and Europe in 2024. Major divisions Samsung Electronics has four major divisions including digital media, semiconductor, telecommunication network, and LCD digital appliances. The company provides electronic components such as lithium-ion batteries and semiconductors to companies like Sony and Apple. Samsung is become especially known for some of its consumer products such as mobile devices as well as their home entertainment systems. Since 2002, the company has been one of the largest producers of LCD panels as well as one of the largest television manufacturers in the world. As of 2024, Samsung held almost ** percent of the global TV market share. In that same year, Samsung's smartphone shipments amounted to over *** million units, ranking second globally behind only Apple.

In 2023, Nokia generated 19.22 billion euros in net sales, a decrease on the 22.26 billion generated the previous year. Nokia's history Founded in 1865, Nokia is a Finnish communications and information technology company. Over the years, Nokia has ventured into different markets: Nokia emerged as a global leader in the mobile market in the early days of the mobile and smartphone era. The company also played a key role in the development of GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Nokia was once the leading mobile phone vendor. However, due to slow adaptation to newer smartphone technologies, Nokia gradually lost its market-leading position to rivals like Samsung and Apple and its mobile business began to lose money. Nokia’s business evolution After the sale of its mobile devices division, Nokia focused on the data networking services and telecommunications equipment business through its subsidiary Nokia Networks. As of 2020, Nokia's Networks Business is the most revenue-generating business segment of Nokia. The company has also been involved in cloud computing and mapping applications. As one of the leading telecom infrastructure companies, Nokia faces competition from Huawei, Cisco, Ericsson, and Qualcomm.

With a market capitalization of 3.12 trillion U.S. dollars as of May 2024, Microsoft was the world’s largest company that year. Rounding out the top five were some of the world’s most recognizable brands: Apple, NVIDIA, Google’s parent company Alphabet, and Amazon. Saudi Aramco led the ranking of the world's most profitable companies in 2023, with a pre-tax income of nearly 250 billion U.S. dollars. How are market value and market capitalization determined? Market value and market capitalization are two terms frequently used – and confused - when discussing the profitability and viability of companies. Strictly speaking, market capitalization (or market cap) is the worth of a company based on the total value of all their shares; an important metric when determining the comparative value of companies for trading opportunities. Accordingly, many stock exchanges such as the New York or London Stock Exchange release market capitalization data on their listed companies. On the other hand, market value technically refers to what a company is worth in a much broader context. It is determined by multiple factors, including profitability, corporate debt, and the market environment as a whole. In this sense it aims to estimate the overall value of a company, with share price only being one element. Market value is therefore useful for determining whether a company’s shares are over- or undervalued, and in arriving at a price if the company is to be sold. Such valuations are generally made on a case-by-case basis though, and not regularly reported. For this reason, market capitalization is often reported as market value. What are the top companies in the world? The answer to this question depends on the metric used. Although the largest company by market capitalization, Microsoft's global revenue did not manage to crack the top 20 companies. Rather, American multinational retailer Walmart was ranked as the largest company in the world by revenue. Walmart also had the highest number of employees in the world.

The worldwide number of payment transactions processed by PayPal increased by over five percent in Q3 2024 when compared to Q3 2023. The total number of transactions was about *** billion during the first quarter of 2025, compared to *** billion in the previous year. Whilst this may indicate an increasing use of the digital payment platform, it should be noted that the growth figure of the value of payments processed decreased for several quarters in a row until 2023. PayPal raises profitability concerns in 2023 The increase in transaction volume contrasts against a decline in profit margins. The company's take rate — transaction revenue compared to transaction volume — was *** bps in the second quarter of 2023, a notable decline from the same quarter one year before. Investors were increasingly concerned about the number of users not growing as fast anymore. Competition from credit card companies, fintech solutions such as Apple Pay, or government initiatives like FedNow increased in 2023. Investors hope the arrival of a new CEO could turn PayPal's business around. Is Venmo the key for PayPal? Various investors in PayPal hope the increasingly popular Venmo could become the turnaround for the company. This as PayPal's subsidiary is said to be a popular payment method in social commerce — the purchasing of products on social media like TikTok. PayPal, however, does not share figures on Venmo specifically. The only metric available is its total payment volume. In Q3 2023, Venmo's transaction volume change decreased for the first time in 2023. Analysts fear that Apple's integration of iMessage in every iPhone may limit the expansion of Venmo as a P2P payment method.