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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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Total reported net income over the window, converted to US dollars.
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 Sum, 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 25% (#61 of 244) | Top 14% (#35 of 244) | Top 4.9% (#12 of 244) | Top 2.5% (#6 of 244) |
| 1997 | Top 29% (#87 of 295) | Top 11% (#32 of 295) | Top 3.7% (#11 of 295) | Top 2.7% (#8 of 295) |
| 1998 | Top 42% (#164 of 395) | Top 6.6% (#26 of 395) | Top 1.8% (#7 of 395) | Top 3.5% (#14 of 395) |
| 1999 | Top 43% (#178 of 417) | Top 5.0% (#21 of 417) | Top 1.4% (#6 of 417) | Top 3.8% (#16 of 417) |
| 2000 | Top 34% (#193 of 562) | Top 3.4% (#19 of 562) | Top 1.1% (#6 of 562) | Top 3.0% (#17 of 562) |
| 2001 | Top 31% (#186 of 592) | Top 1.7% (#10 of 592) | Top 1.0% (#6 of 592) | Top 3.2% (#19 of 592) |
| 2002 | Top 32% (#227 of 709) | Top 1.4% (#10 of 709) | Top 0.71% (#5 of 709) | Top 2.0% (#14 of 709) |
| 2003 | Top 40% (#315 of 789) | Top 1.1% (#9 of 789) | Top 0.89% (#7 of 789) | Top 1.4% (#11 of 789) |
| 2004 | Top 39% (#345 of 882) | Top 1.0% (#9 of 882) | Top 1.1% (#10 of 882) | Top 0.68% (#6 of 882) |
| 2005 | Top 41% (#388 of 950) | Top 0.95% (#9 of 950) | Top 1.2% (#11 of 950) | Top 0.84% (#8 of 950) |
| 2006 | Top 27% (#288 of 1078) | Top 0.83% (#9 of 1078) | Top 1.4% (#15 of 1078) | Top 1.0% (#11 of 1078) |
| 2007 | Top 16% (#190 of 1177) | Top 0.76% (#9 of 1177) | Top 1.5% (#18 of 1177) | Top 1.1% (#13 of 1177) |
| 2008 | Top 9.7% (#125 of 1285) | Top 0.62% (#8 of 1285) | Top 1.5% (#19 of 1285) | Top 1.0% (#13 of 1285) |
| 2009 | Top 7.0% (#95 of 1360) | Top 0.51% (#7 of 1360) | Top 1.6% (#22 of 1360) | Top 0.88% (#12 of 1360) |
| 2010 | Top 5.0% (#72 of 1454) | Top 0.34% (#5 of 1454) | Top 1.9% (#28 of 1454) | Top 0.89% (#13 of 1454) |
| 2011 | Top 3.4% (#52 of 1529) | Top 0.33% (#5 of 1529) | Top 1.9% (#29 of 1529) | Top 0.85% (#13 of 1529) |
| 2012 | Top 2.0% (#32 of 1579) | Top 0.38% (#6 of 1579) | Top 1.8% (#28 of 1579) | Top 0.63% (#10 of 1579) |
| 2013 | Top 0.87% (#14 of 1616) | Top 0.37% (#6 of 1616) | Top 1.6% (#26 of 1616) | Top 0.68% (#11 of 1616) |
| 2014 | Top 0.48% (#8 of 1674) | Top 0.30% (#5 of 1674) | Top 1.6% (#26 of 1674) | Top 0.72% (#12 of 1674) |
| 2015 | Top 0.23% (#4 of 1752) | Top 0.29% (#5 of 1752) | Top 1.4% (#24 of 1752) | Top 0.68% (#12 of 1752) |
| 2016 | Top 0.11% (#2 of 1825) | Top 0.27% (#5 of 1825) | Top 1.4% (#25 of 1825) | Top 0.71% (#13 of 1825) |
| 2017 | Top 0.10% (#2 of 1914) | Top 0.21% (#4 of 1914) | Top 1.2% (#23 of 1914) | Top 0.63% (#12 of 1914) |
| 2018 | Top 0.05% (#1 of 2005) | Top 0.15% (#3 of 2005) | Top 1.0% (#21 of 2005) | Top 0.60% (#12 of 2005) |
| 2019 | Top 0.05% (#1 of 2032) | Top 0.25% (#5 of 2032) | Top 0.89% (#18 of 2032) | Top 0.74% (#15 of 2032) |
| 2020 | Top 0.05% (#1 of 2104) | Top 0.29% (#6 of 2104) | Top 0.67% (#14 of 2104) | Top 0.86% (#18 of 2104) |
| 2021 | Top 0.05% (#1 of 2179) | Top 0.23% (#5 of 2179) | Top 0.50% (#11 of 2179) | Top 0.83% (#18 of 2179) |
Net Income Sum, ten years of fundamentals
AAPL
Apple Inc
Top 0.05% in 2021
#1 of 2,179 ranked companies at that anchor
Top 50 for 10 consecutive years through 2021, since 2012.
MSFT
Microsoft Corporation
Top 0.23% in 2021
#5 of 2,179 ranked companies at that anchor
Top 50 for 26 consecutive years through 2021, since 1996.
INTC
Intel Corporation
Top 0.50% in 2021
#11 of 2,179 ranked companies at that anchor
Top 50 for 26 consecutive years through 2021, since 1996.
IBM
International Business Machines
Top 0.83% in 2021
#18 of 2,179 ranked companies at that anchor
Top 50 for 26 consecutive years through 2021, since 1996.
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% |
Membership
This comparison is public through 2021. The rankings continue.
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