{"id":359,"date":"2005-12-15T11:09:24","date_gmt":"2005-12-15T19:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/15\/apple-could-become-more-valuable-than-microsoft\/"},"modified":"2005-12-15T11:09:24","modified_gmt":"2005-12-15T19:09:24","slug":"apple-could-become-more-valuable-than-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/15\/apple-could-become-more-valuable-than-microsoft\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Could Become More Valuable than Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Um, right&#8230; But thanks anyway, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.murdza.com\" target=\"_blank\">Murdza<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt from <a href=\"http:\/\/macdailynews.com\/index.php\/weblog\/comments\/7899\/\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nCody Willard is the manager of a hedge fund and the author of the Telecom Connection, an investment newsletter. He is also a headliner on TheStreet.com, writes for Razor Magazine, VON Magazine and the Financial Times, is a frequent featured guest on CNBC and has been quoted in many publications, including the New York Post and the Hollywood Reporter.<\/p>\n<p>Willard writes for TheStreet.com, &#8220;with Apple having blown by Oracle in market cap already, I wonder how much longer before it catches Cisco. Then Intel. Then Microsoft? Let me go ahead and be the one to throw it out there first: I wouldn&#8217;t be shocked to see Apple more valuable than Microsoft sometime in 2007. What a mind-blowing thing to think to ponder.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Apple&#8217;s market cap has gone from $6 billion to $60 billion in the past two and a half years. Can it keep running? If the company delivers the growth it looks like it will: heck yes it can keep running. I&#8217;m sticking with it, although I have trimmed the exposure in the past few weeks, as I&#8217;ve noted on the site.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some stats according to MacDaily News:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Apple&#8217;s market value is currently $59,888,758,930, thanks to recent profit-taking. Dell&#8217;s, for one example we&#8217;re keeping a very close eye on in relation to Apple for obvious reasons, is currently $78,182,273,298. Microsoft&#8217;s current market value stands at $287,850,410,220.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Underdogs can always dream of being the top dog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Um, right&#8230; But thanks anyway, Murdza. Excerpt from this article: Cody Willard is the manager of a hedge fund and the author of the Telecom Connection, an investment newsletter. He is also a headliner on TheStreet.com, writes for Razor Magazine, VON Magazine and the Financial Times, is a frequent featured guest on CNBC and has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/15\/apple-could-become-more-valuable-than-microsoft\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Apple Could Become More Valuable than Microsoft&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-geek-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-5N","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}