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| Time: 02:13 EST/07:13 GMT | News Source: Seattle PI | Posted By: Byron Hinson | ||
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Microsoft Corp.'s fiscal first-quarter net income and sales probably will rise more than forecast because customers bought more of the company's products in July, analysts said. The company, which reports results tomorrow for the period ended Sept. 30, will "meet or slightly exceed" Goldman Sachs analyst Rick Sherlund's estimate for earnings of 42 cents a share on sales of $7.07 billion, he wrote in a report. | ||
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| #1 By 1845 (12.254.162.111) at 10/16/2002 2:26:52 AM |
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I read a post today that claimed that IBM and HP were larger companies than than Microsoft and Sun combined. I thought I'd check some numbers.
The numbers are market cap as of close today. IBM 116 Billion HP 41.19 Billion Sun 9.69 Billion Oracle 51.9 Billion Apple 5.44 Billion Corel 73.52 Million (it really is million, this is not a mistake) Total 224.29 Billion Microsoft 281.3 Billion These are income/sales numbers. IBM 5.2 Billion / 81.5 Billion HP -1.2 Billion / 49.4 Billion Sun -587 Million / 12.5 Billion Oracle 2.1 Billion / 9.5 Billion Apple 176 Million / 5.7 Billion Corel -79.3 Million / 124.8 Million Total 5.62 Billion / 158.7 Billion Microsoft 7.8 Billion / 28.4 Billion |
| #2 By 1845 (12.254.162.111) at 10/16/2002 2:27:15 AM |
| Oh, today is Tuesday the 15th. |
| #3 By 1845 (12.254.162.111) at 10/16/2002 3:06:29 AM |
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It was in the talkback section of some cnet/zdnet/news.com article. I don't remember which one offhand. It's rather interesting that Microsoft just dwarfs the other companies in terms of market cap and profitability, but most folks don't know that. This post was edited by BobSmith on Wednesday, October 16, 2002 at 05:19. |
| #4 By 1845 (12.254.162.111) at 10/16/2002 5:24:17 AM |
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I've read that from an economic perspective one of the reasons the government brought the anti trust case against Microsoft was that they had a monopolist's profit margins. As the case went on their profit margins began to decrease. That was a major sign that the case was successful. It would be useful if I could remember the reference or specific numbers. Perhaps someone else knows them?
I read that bit about profit margin in either World War 3.0 or in Breaking Windows. Both books showed me sides of Microsoft that I hadn't seen before. I recommend them. |
| #5 By 1845 (12.254.162.111) at 10/16/2002 3:34:02 PM |
| Would investors be more intereted in profits? |
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