The world's richest companies do you think Apple is actually Microsoft

   

Apple is like a night of continuous printing money machine, in everyone the impression Apple is perhaps the most profitable companies. But recently a report from FactSet Research shows that in the existing well-known multinational companies in the United States, the highest cash reserves is not Apple, but Microsoft. Even Apple can not get into the top five. 

　　Last week, Apple's stock has just become the Dow Jones Industrial Average Index. After Cantor Fitzgerald (Cantor Fitzgerald) gives the latest target price, Apple shares rose 1 percent to $ 127.42, so Apple reached $ 738 billion valuation. Cantor Fitzgerald (Cantor Fitzgerald) The Wall Street brokers even Apple's price target at $ 180 per share. January 9 to calculate the number of shares of Apple, which will make Apple's stock valuation of $ 1.05 trillion. 

　　The agency analyst Brian White (Brian White), said, "Next month, Apple will enter the first five years of new product cycles, and over the past few weeks to media reports highlighted potential new areas for future innovation; in addition, we that Apple's iPhone product portfolio market position in China's unprecedented strong; Finally, Apple has demonstrated its ability to deliver on the promise of cash back to shareholders, we expect there will be more action in April. "He also expects Apple Watch in 2015's. sales will reach 20.6 million, while in 2016 Apple Watch sales will reach staggering 25.1 million. Apple's smart phone market in China will account for 11% - 20%, the market size of 133 billion to 178 billion US dollars.

　　But even so we see FactSet Research report, published in the highest corporate cash reserves in Apple just came in eighth position, cash reserves and short-term marketable securities of $ 32.4 billion total. (We reserve the views of this figure, cash reserves and short-term securities just Cupertino [Apple headquarters] cash reserves and short-term securities, including cash reserves and short-term securities other than Apple, 342 billion dollars is likely referring to the cash reserves and short-term securities in the United States to hold the value of Apple's) in the first row is Microsoft, the total amount of cash reserves and short-term marketable securities currently held by them for $ 90.25 billion. Microsoft frequently acquire generous, but also to maintain such a high cash reserves, also proved its ability to make money. 　　September 3, 2013, Microsoft announced, will be $ 7.2 billion acquisition of Nokia's mobile phone business, as well as a large number of patent portfolio. In 2011, Microsoft spent $ 8.5 billion cash acquisition of Internet phone service provider Skype, which is the largest amount of its corporate history acquisitions. 　　In this report, in addition to Microsoft in the first place outside the General Electric Company, Google, Cisco, Oracle, Pfizer, jonsson & jonsson, Apple, Ford, General Motors breakdown of two to ten.