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Pick two to four companies and follow where each one ranked on twenty 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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This is not a date range. It selects the ranking built on five, ten, or twenty years of published fundamentals.
Market position over time
HDB Score, ranked on twenty 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Top 51% (#100 of 195) | not ranked | not ranked | Top 67% (#131 of 195) |
| 2007 | Top 62% (#156 of 250) | Top 1.2% (#3 of 250) | Top 12% (#31 of 250) | Top 64% (#161 of 250) |
| 2008 | Top 55% (#181 of 332) | Top 0.60% (#2 of 332) | Top 12% (#41 of 332) | Top 61% (#202 of 332) |
| 2009 | Top 45% (#168 of 370) | Top 0.54% (#2 of 370) | Top 23% (#85 of 370) | Top 48% (#177 of 370) |
| 2010 | Top 33% (#137 of 420) | Top 0.71% (#3 of 420) | Top 24% (#101 of 420) | Top 35% (#146 of 420) |
| 2011 | Top 27% (#147 of 553) | Top 0.54% (#3 of 553) | Top 27% (#148 of 553) | Top 39% (#217 of 553) |
| 2012 | Top 15% (#95 of 614) | Top 0.33% (#2 of 614) | Top 31% (#192 of 614) | Top 17% (#105 of 614) |
| 2013 | Top 11% (#77 of 728) | Top 1.9% (#14 of 728) | Top 37% (#266 of 728) | Top 26% (#191 of 728) |
| 2014 | Top 8.4% (#68 of 813) | Top 2.1% (#17 of 813) | Top 50% (#406 of 813) | Top 25% (#205 of 813) |
| 2015 | Top 6.9% (#62 of 903) | Top 2.1% (#19 of 903) | Top 45% (#404 of 903) | Top 28% (#254 of 903) |
| 2016 | Top 3.7% (#37 of 990) | Top 6.7% (#66 of 990) | Top 47% (#468 of 990) | Top 34% (#338 of 990) |
| 2017 | Top 2.6% (#29 of 1107) | Top 6.8% (#75 of 1107) | Top 52% (#571 of 1107) | Top 45% (#503 of 1107) |
| 2018 | Top 1.6% (#19 of 1189) | Top 7.0% (#83 of 1189) | Top 55% (#654 of 1189) | Top 66% (#787 of 1189) |
| 2019 | Top 1.1% (#14 of 1286) | Top 15% (#194 of 1286) | Top 42% (#544 of 1286) | Top 70% (#904 of 1286) |
| 2020 | Top 1.6% (#22 of 1379) | Top 12% (#169 of 1379) | Top 41% (#568 of 1379) | Top 70% (#971 of 1379) |
| 2021 | Top 1.2% (#18 of 1468) | Top 8.5% (#125 of 1468) | Top 33% (#491 of 1468) | Top 74% (#1079 of 1468) |
HDB Score, twenty years of fundamentals
AAPL
Apple Inc
Top 1.2% in 2021
#18 of 1,468 ranked companies at that anchor
Top 50 for 6 consecutive years through 2021, since 2016.
MSFT
Microsoft Corporation
Top 8.5% in 2021
#125 of 1,468 ranked companies at that anchor
INTC
Intel Corporation
Top 33% in 2021
#491 of 1,468 ranked companies at that anchor
IBM
International Business Machines
Top 74% in 2021
#1079 of 1,468 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 1.2% | Top 8.5% | Top 33% | Top 74% |
| Net Income Growth | Best rank among compared companies: Top 3.7% | Top 34% | Top 55% | Top 71% |
| Net Income Consistency | Best rank among compared companies: Top 9.4% | Top 15% | Top 18% | Top 74% |
| Net Income Trend | Best rank among compared companies: Top 7.5% | Top 24% | Top 92% | Top 29% |
| Net Income Sum | Best rank among compared companies: Top 0.07% | Top 0.33% | Top 1.1% | Top 0.92% |
| Revenue Growth | Best rank among compared companies: Top 4.8% | Top 24% | Top 58% | Top 89% |
| Revenue Consistency | Top 13% | Best rank among compared companies: Top 2.4% | Top 9.3% | Top 82% |
| Revenue Trend | Top 15% | Best rank among compared companies: Top 9.5% | Top 56% | Top 94% |
| Revenue Sum | Best rank among compared companies: Top 0.72% | Top 2.4% | Top 3.9% | Top 1.6% |
Membership
This comparison is public through 2021. The rankings continue.
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