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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 revenue. 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
Revenue 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 10% (#20 of 196) | not ranked | Top 5.6% (#11 of 196) | Top 72% (#141 of 196) |
| 1997 | Top 16% (#39 of 250) | Top 2.8% (#7 of 250) | Top 6.0% (#15 of 250) | Top 82% (#204 of 250) |
| 1998 | Top 43% (#144 of 334) | Top 3.0% (#10 of 334) | Top 6.9% (#23 of 334) | Top 82% (#273 of 334) |
| 1999 | Top 77% (#289 of 373) | Top 2.7% (#10 of 373) | Top 8.3% (#31 of 373) | Top 81% (#301 of 373) |
| 2000 | Top 89% (#373 of 421) | Top 1.7% (#7 of 421) | Top 8.3% (#35 of 421) | Top 81% (#339 of 421) |
| 2001 | Top 82% (#458 of 560) | Top 4.1% (#23 of 560) | Top 12% (#68 of 560) | Top 88% (#490 of 560) |
| 2002 | Top 96% (#592 of 618) | Top 5.7% (#35 of 618) | Top 20% (#121 of 618) | Top 87% (#535 of 618) |
| 2003 | Top 94% (#688 of 729) | Top 8.0% (#58 of 729) | Top 24% (#173 of 729) | Top 85% (#620 of 729) |
| 2004 | Top 94% (#776 of 824) | Top 10% (#85 of 824) | Top 34% (#284 of 824) | Top 80% (#662 of 824) |
| 2005 | Top 93% (#843 of 908) | Top 11% (#98 of 908) | Top 43% (#393 of 908) | Top 77% (#699 of 908) |
| 2006 | Top 86% (#859 of 998) | Top 14% (#143 of 998) | Top 54% (#536 of 998) | Top 86% (#858 of 998) |
| 2007 | Top 66% (#731 of 1106) | Top 21% (#236 of 1106) | Top 75% (#827 of 1106) | Top 88% (#976 of 1106) |
| 2008 | Top 35% (#422 of 1197) | Top 26% (#310 of 1197) | Top 78% (#934 of 1197) | Top 86% (#1032 of 1197) |
| 2009 | Top 18% (#237 of 1288) | Top 27% (#351 of 1288) | Top 80% (#1024 of 1288) | Top 84% (#1076 of 1288) |
| 2010 | Top 11% (#146 of 1388) | Top 31% (#425 of 1388) | Top 78% (#1087 of 1388) | Top 83% (#1152 of 1388) |
| 2011 | Top 7.6% (#112 of 1472) | Top 31% (#459 of 1472) | Top 72% (#1057 of 1472) | Top 79% (#1165 of 1472) |
| 2012 | Top 3.3% (#51 of 1536) | Top 31% (#476 of 1536) | Top 47% (#724 of 1536) | Top 73% (#1121 of 1536) |
| 2013 | Top 2.5% (#39 of 1582) | Top 36% (#575 of 1582) | Top 50% (#798 of 1582) | Top 77% (#1211 of 1582) |
| 2014 | Top 2.0% (#33 of 1623) | Top 37% (#608 of 1623) | Top 55% (#898 of 1623) | Top 82% (#1329 of 1623) |
| 2015 | Top 2.1% (#36 of 1686) | Top 35% (#591 of 1686) | Top 57% (#960 of 1686) | Top 86% (#1442 of 1686) |
| 2016 | Top 2.8% (#49 of 1758) | Top 31% (#540 of 1758) | Top 59% (#1038 of 1758) | Top 84% (#1479 of 1758) |
| 2017 | Top 3.3% (#60 of 1830) | Top 33% (#598 of 1830) | Top 43% (#786 of 1830) | Top 82% (#1501 of 1830) |
| 2018 | Top 4.8% (#92 of 1910) | Top 36% (#682 of 1910) | Top 43% (#824 of 1910) | Top 85% (#1615 of 1910) |
| 2019 | Top 5.2% (#103 of 1973) | Top 39% (#771 of 1973) | Top 38% (#745 of 1973) | Top 85% (#1683 of 1973) |
| 2020 | Top 8.1% (#163 of 2005) | Top 36% (#729 of 2005) | Top 39% (#782 of 2005) | Top 93% (#1860 of 2005) |
| 2021 | Top 12% (#257 of 2080) | Top 28% (#576 of 2080) | Top 40% (#828 of 2080) | Top 85% (#1770 of 2080) |
Revenue Growth, ten years of fundamentals
AAPL
Apple Inc
Top 12% in 2021
#257 of 2,080 ranked companies at that anchor
MSFT
Microsoft Corporation
Top 28% in 2021
#576 of 2,080 ranked companies at that anchor
INTC
Intel Corporation
Top 40% in 2021
#828 of 2,080 ranked companies at that anchor
IBM
International Business Machines
Top 85% in 2021
#1770 of 2,080 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% |
Membership
This comparison is public through 2021. The rankings continue.
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