Apple‘s market cap rose to a record high of $400 billion on Jan. 19, 2012. With its earnings report due later today, Apple may be delivering even more financial surprises, perhaps a new sales record.
Did you know the corporation is already worth more than Greece? This is quite the
achievement for the 35-year-old company, which only had a $10 billion market cap 10 years ago.
UPDATE: Apple did even better than expected in its first fiscal quarter for 2012. Check out the report, here.
We’ve found seven more things Apple is worth more than — prepare yourself to be very surprised. And be sure to check out the awesome Tumblr Things Apple Is Worth More Than for more examples. What other examples can you think of? Let us know in the comments below.
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It costs a mere $100 million to travel to the moon in a $1.7 billion space shuttle (of which Apple could afford 235). With 60,400 full-time Apple employees, can you say "company picnic in outer space?"
Image courtesy of Marcin Wichary.
China produces 855,190 metric tons of tea leaves each year at $1.86 per kilogram. That's almost $1.6 billion — chump change compared to the $6.6 billion it takes to produce all the coffee in Brazil.
Image courtesy of Kyle Simourd.
It cost $300 million to make Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, the most expensive movie ever made. $400 billion is more than 115 times the combined costs to make the 15 most expensive motion pictures in history.
Image courtesy of SPDP.
Based on a 2010 report, the combined endowments of the nation's 15 wealthiest universities is around $366 billion. But do they teach you how to make an iPad?
Image courtesy of California Cthulhu (Will Hart).
According to World Food Programme, it would take $3.2 billion to feed the 66 million hungry schoolchildren of the world for one year. Apple's market cap could achieve this for well over a century.
Image courtesy of USDAgov.
Based on the Tentative Assessment Roll for the 2011 fiscal year, New York City's market was valued at almost $800 billion. One of the world's largest and most expensive cities is only worth about twice what Apple is worth.
Image courtesy of Ruthanne Reid.
Apple's value comes close to the $406 billion combined net worth of the world's 10 wealthiest billionaires. In simpler terms, that's 148 Oprahs.
Image courtesy of United States Mission Geneva.
Image courtesy of Flickr, Håkan Dahlström
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