How much is your business worth?
As of last week, Microsoft ($850bn) had overtaken Apple ($847bn) as the world’s most valuable publicly-listed company, 16 years after the software giant lost its crown in the wake of the dotcom crash. It’s an interesting one in terms of business valuation as Microsoft is trading at c. 24 times expected 2019 earnings whilst Apple is trading at c. 13 times what analysts think it’ll generate in 2019. This means Apple makes more money than Microsoft, but investors are currently willing to pay more for each dollar of Microsoft’s earnings.
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