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Apple Rises to Third in Annual Fortune 500 List of America's Largest Companies

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Apple has ranked third in the annual Fortune 500 list of the highest-revenue-generating companies based in the United States, with $265.5 billion revenue in fiscal 2018, trailing only Walmart and oil giant ExxonMobil.

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Apple moved up one spot in this year's rankings, overtaking billionaire investor Warren Buffett's holding company Berkshire Hathaway.

Fortune's description of Apple:

Two thousand eighteen will be remembered as the year that Apple first achieved a market value of $1 trillion, as well as when growth in iPhones, Apple's largest single product by far, began to slow. Before the introduction of the iPod—the iPhone's precursor—Apple was a once-exciting computer maker. Now, only a retailer and an oil company are bigger. Its challenge: as consumers hang onto phones longer, Apple is repositioning itself as a services provider. Already iTunes, Apple Music, iCloud, and cuts from sales in its popular Apple Store generate billions of dollars of sales.

Apple has made the Fortune 500 list for 37 years and has now cracked the top 10 spots for seven consecutive years:

  • 2019: 3rd

  • 2018: 4th

  • 2017: 3rd

  • 2016: 3rd

  • 2015: 5th

  • 2014: 5th

  • 2013: 6th

  • 2012: 17th

  • 2011: 35th

  • 2010: 56th

Other notable technology companies in this year's Fortune 500 include Amazon in fifth, Google parent company Alphabet in 15th, and Microsoft in 26th.

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Lone Deranger
96 months ago
aPpLe iS DoOmeD ! WHaT !?11
Doomed? Certainly not financially. Creatively they've lost their spark. And that's putting it mildly.
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jona2125
96 months ago
aPpLe iS DoOmeD ! WHaT !?11
The main thought process for that here internally at Apple is that they have done nothing but focus on climbing ladders as a company and losing foresight on consumer products. It's been dark here the last few years
Score: 12 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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Baymowe335
96 months ago
Well, I can safely say iMac & Mac Pro sales didn't contribute much to all that revenue.

I don't have a problem with diversity. But damn, Apple did you forget your roots? :(
Apple’s Mac business did $25.5B in sales in 2018. That is more than all of Netflix and EBay combined.
Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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Remy149
96 months ago
The main thought process for that here internally at Apple is that they have done nothing but focus on climbing ladders as a company and losing foresight on consumer products. It's been dark here the last few years
You say this but I the Apple products I’ve bought in recent years are the best pieces of tech I’ve ever owned. Especially the series 4 Apple Watch
Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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Fender2112
96 months ago
Well, I can safely say iMac & Mac Pro sales didn't contribute much to all that revenue.

I don't have a problem with diversity. But damn, Apple did you forget your roots? :(
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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Dragonlord_66
96 months ago
aPpLe iS DoOmeD ! WHaT !?11
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