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Pick two to four companies and follow where each one ranked on ten years of fundamentals, at every archive anchor, as a share of every company we could rank at the time. Higher is better. The share matters rather than the place because the number of ranked companies grows over time, so the same place means something different at either end.
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Endpoint growth in net income. Negative or near-zero starting values can distort the rate.
This is not a date range. It selects the ranking built on five, ten, or twenty years of published fundamentals.
Market position over time
Net Income Growth, ranked on ten years of fundamentals at each anchor. A gap is a year the company was not ranked, not a zero.
- AAPL
- MSFT
- INTC
- IBM
| Year | Apple Inc (AAPL) | Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) | Intel Corporation (INTC) | International Business Machines (IBM) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Top 18% (#37 of 202) | not ranked | not ranked | Top 90% (#181 of 202) |
| 1997 | Top 99% (#260 of 263) | Top 3.4% (#9 of 263) | Top 4.9% (#13 of 263) | Top 79% (#209 of 263) |
| 1998 | Top 98% (#348 of 354) | Top 2.8% (#10 of 354) | Top 3.7% (#13 of 354) | Top 77% (#273 of 354) |
| 1999 | Top 85% (#337 of 397) | Top 2.8% (#11 of 397) | Top 8.8% (#35 of 397) | Top 77% (#305 of 397) |
| 2000 | Top 71% (#304 of 429) | Top 2.1% (#9 of 429) | Top 7.0% (#30 of 429) | Top 56% (#240 of 429) |
| 2001 | Top 68% (#385 of 569) | Top 4.7% (#27 of 569) | Top 11% (#61 of 569) | Top 75% (#427 of 569) |
| 2002 | Top 86% (#527 of 613) | Top 7.8% (#48 of 613) | Top 65% (#401 of 613) | Top 8.0% (#49 of 613) |
| 2003 | Top 82% (#596 of 730) | Top 12% (#90 of 730) | Top 43% (#312 of 730) | Top 46% (#337 of 730) |
| 2004 | Top 81% (#666 of 822) | Top 18% (#151 of 822) | Top 51% (#422 of 822) | Top 46% (#381 of 822) |
| 2005 | Top 83% (#754 of 906) | Top 20% (#182 of 906) | Top 44% (#398 of 906) | Top 53% (#483 of 906) |
| 2006 | Top 46% (#458 of 996) | Top 18% (#180 of 996) | Top 55% (#552 of 996) | Top 65% (#644 of 996) |
| 2007 | Top 33% (#372 of 1115) | Top 26% (#289 of 1115) | Top 84% (#933 of 1115) | Top 70% (#781 of 1115) |
| 2008 | Top 24% (#286 of 1204) | Top 33% (#396 of 1204) | Top 79% (#952 of 1204) | Top 66% (#791 of 1204) |
| 2009 | Top 4.9% (#63 of 1292) | Top 27% (#350 of 1292) | Top 67% (#871 of 1292) | Top 49% (#637 of 1292) |
| 2010 | Top 5.0% (#70 of 1390) | Top 44% (#607 of 1390) | Top 68% (#949 of 1390) | Top 46% (#636 of 1390) |
| 2011 | Top 5.9% (#88 of 1480) | Top 49% (#718 of 1480) | Top 69% (#1026 of 1480) | Top 52% (#772 of 1480) |
| 2012 | Top 0.06% (#1 of 1540) | Top 40% (#613 of 1540) | Top 12% (#183 of 1540) | Top 59% (#908 of 1540) |
| 2013 | Top 0.06% (#1 of 1585) | Top 54% (#849 of 1585) | Top 33% (#526 of 1585) | Top 25% (#401 of 1585) |
| 2014 | Top 0.06% (#1 of 1628) | Top 36% (#588 of 1628) | Top 59% (#957 of 1628) | Top 42% (#676 of 1628) |
| 2015 | Top 0.41% (#7 of 1694) | Top 32% (#546 of 1694) | Top 54% (#921 of 1694) | Top 53% (#899 of 1694) |
| 2016 | Top 1.2% (#21 of 1777) | Top 65% (#1150 of 1777) | Top 56% (#1001 of 1777) | Top 47% (#834 of 1777) |
| 2017 | Top 2.0% (#36 of 1845) | Top 44% (#816 of 1845) | Top 35% (#645 of 1845) | Top 56% (#1030 of 1845) |
| 2018 | Top 3.7% (#72 of 1933) | Top 43% (#825 of 1933) | Top 54% (#1049 of 1933) | Top 76% (#1470 of 1933) |
| 2019 | Top 6.8% (#135 of 2000) | Top 74% (#1472 of 2000) | Top 23% (#451 of 2000) | Top 78% (#1556 of 2000) |
| 2020 | Top 15% (#305 of 2032) | Top 42% (#861 of 2032) | Top 23% (#466 of 2032) | Top 78% (#1577 of 2032) |
| 2021 | Top 18% (#377 of 2103) | Top 34% (#719 of 2103) | Top 45% (#937 of 2103) | Top 70% (#1473 of 2103) |
Net Income Growth, ten years of fundamentals
AAPL
Apple Inc
Top 18% in 2021
#377 of 2,103 ranked companies at that anchor
MSFT
Microsoft Corporation
Top 34% in 2021
#719 of 2,103 ranked companies at that anchor
INTC
Intel Corporation
Top 45% in 2021
#937 of 2,103 ranked companies at that anchor
IBM
International Business Machines
Top 70% in 2021
#1473 of 2,103 ranked companies at that anchor
Every measure, read at 2021
One anchor for the whole grid, so the columns are comparable. Pick a measure to follow it year by year.
| Measure | AAPL | MSFT | INTC | IBM |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HDB Score | Best rank among compared companies: Top 8.9% | Top 22% | Top 37% | Top 40% |
| Net Income Growth | Best rank among compared companies: Top 18% | Top 34% | Top 45% | Top 70% |
| Net Income Consistency | Best rank among compared companies: Top 14% | Top 40% | Top 30% | Top 15% |
| Net Income Trend | Best rank among compared companies: Top 15% | Top 26% | Top 94% | Top 72% |
| Net Income Sum | Best rank among compared companies: Top 0.05% | Top 0.23% | Top 0.50% | Top 0.83% |
| Revenue Growth | Best rank among compared companies: Top 12% | Top 28% | Top 40% | Top 85% |
| Revenue Consistency | Top 29% | Best rank among compared companies: Top 12% | Top 25% | Top 37% |
| Revenue Trend | Top 36% | Best rank among compared companies: Top 9.7% | Top 50% | Top 95% |
| Revenue Sum | Best rank among compared companies: Top 0.37% | Top 1.3% | Top 2.4% | Top 1.6% |
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This comparison is public through 2021. The rankings continue.
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