Post by davidcv100 on Oct 2, 2012 13:29:49 GMT -8
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) Crowned As Fastest Growing Brand
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Posted by Andi St. Hume on Oct 02, 2012
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is ranked as fastest growing brand in respect of value by a leading brand consultancy firm, Intrabrand.
Apple (AAPL) has been put in front of IBM due to rising sales in both emerging and matured markets according to Interbrand’s 13th annual report on Best Global Brands that ranks brands by criteria of rise in their value.
Apple Inc (AAPL) is at number two just behind Coca-Cola (NYSE:KO) which kept its pole position while IBM is being ranked at third position.
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) is also lurking behind IBM at number 4 after taking over Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), first time in history of Interbrand’s report, with 26% jump in its brand value over the last year.
Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) has just made entry and resides at 69th position after third largest IPO in history of US stocks.
Intrabrands is a leading brand consultancy firm which annually publishes report, of 100 most valuable brands of the world, named as “Best Global Brands”. Company holds ISO certification for its analysis process to develop the “Best Global Brands” report.
Intrabrands examines three key factors to evaluate brand’s value,
How the branded product or service has performed financially?
How the brand has played its role to influence consumer choice?
Does the brand have strength to hold a premium price and has it secured earnings for the company?
Turning towards Apple Inc Trading activity; Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)’s stock on Oct 02, 2012 has so far registered a decreased of -0.25% to the opening price of $661.81. With its fifty two weeks range between $354.24 -$705.07, total market capitalization of the company remains at $617.71 billion.
The stock’s volume in the current trading session is 6.93 million shares. In its share capital, AAPL has 937.41 million outstanding shares, among them 936.90 million shares have been floated in market exchange.
AAPL is ahead its 52-week low with +87.99% and lagging behind from its 52-week high price with -5.95%. AAPL’s last month’s stock price volatility remains 1.70%. The stock price of AAPL is moving down from its 20 days moving average with -2.55% and remote positively from 50 days moving average with +2.00%.s
Company has a beta coefficient of 1.22. Beta factor measures the amount of market risk associated with market trade.
AAPL’s past twelve months’ price to sales ratio is 4.15 and price to cash ratio remains 22.35. As far as the returns are concerned, AAPL’s return on investment is recorded as +38.27% and while its return on assets staying at +29.77%.
The stock has shown weekly downbeat performance of -4.55% which was maintained for the month at -0.67%. Likewise the positive performance for the quarter was recorded as +11.76% and for the year at +73.67% with YTD performance of +63.51%.
Coming back to the world’s topranking brands in the report, Lets see how they have doing in Stock Market. The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE:KO)’s share price is moving down -0.63% between $38.11 to $38.69 today, trading 3.96 million shares. The company was able to generate revenue of $47.51 billion in the last 12 months and for the same period has earned $8.72 billion. Twelve trailing months’ earnings per share reached a value of $1.89. The price ratios of the company include the P/C ratio of 10.18, Price/Sales 3.64 and Price/Book ratio 5.36.
International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM) The price of the stock is trending down -0.76% today and is assigned a beta value of 0.67. The total debt represents 158% of the company’s equity and the total long-term debt in relation to the equity amounts to 121%. Last fiscal year, a return +74.65% on equity of was realized. The firm’s trailing twelve months’ revenue amounts to $106.10 billion and the gross margin is 47.40%. Further in profitability ratios, its operating margin appears at 20.07% and net profit margin at 15.34%.
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) shares are up +0.42% to $29.61 while the stock is traded within the range of $29.54 – $29.89 in the current trading session. In the last 12 months the shares have traded between $24.26 and $32.95. The current session’s volume of 17.74 million shares is lower than their average daily trading volume of 40.90 million shares.
Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) shares in the current session moved down –0.97% reaching at $754.41. The stock traded in a range of $753.01 – $765.99. In the last year the stock has moved within a range of $480.60 – $765.99. The current session’s volume of 1.34 million shares is lower from their average daily trading volume of 2.80 million shares.
Whereas rising brands include Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) which is down -0.97% to $249.56 and Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ:ORCL) up +0.09% to $31.69.
statesmansentinel.com/2012/10/02/apple-inc-nasdaqaapl-crowned-as-fastest-growing-brand-aapl-ko-ibm-msft-goog-amzn-orcl/
Posted by Andi St. Hume on Oct 02, 2012
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is ranked as fastest growing brand in respect of value by a leading brand consultancy firm, Intrabrand.
Apple (AAPL) has been put in front of IBM due to rising sales in both emerging and matured markets according to Interbrand’s 13th annual report on Best Global Brands that ranks brands by criteria of rise in their value.
Apple Inc (AAPL) is at number two just behind Coca-Cola (NYSE:KO) which kept its pole position while IBM is being ranked at third position.
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) is also lurking behind IBM at number 4 after taking over Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), first time in history of Interbrand’s report, with 26% jump in its brand value over the last year.
Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) has just made entry and resides at 69th position after third largest IPO in history of US stocks.
Intrabrands is a leading brand consultancy firm which annually publishes report, of 100 most valuable brands of the world, named as “Best Global Brands”. Company holds ISO certification for its analysis process to develop the “Best Global Brands” report.
Intrabrands examines three key factors to evaluate brand’s value,
How the branded product or service has performed financially?
How the brand has played its role to influence consumer choice?
Does the brand have strength to hold a premium price and has it secured earnings for the company?
Turning towards Apple Inc Trading activity; Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)’s stock on Oct 02, 2012 has so far registered a decreased of -0.25% to the opening price of $661.81. With its fifty two weeks range between $354.24 -$705.07, total market capitalization of the company remains at $617.71 billion.
The stock’s volume in the current trading session is 6.93 million shares. In its share capital, AAPL has 937.41 million outstanding shares, among them 936.90 million shares have been floated in market exchange.
AAPL is ahead its 52-week low with +87.99% and lagging behind from its 52-week high price with -5.95%. AAPL’s last month’s stock price volatility remains 1.70%. The stock price of AAPL is moving down from its 20 days moving average with -2.55% and remote positively from 50 days moving average with +2.00%.s
Company has a beta coefficient of 1.22. Beta factor measures the amount of market risk associated with market trade.
AAPL’s past twelve months’ price to sales ratio is 4.15 and price to cash ratio remains 22.35. As far as the returns are concerned, AAPL’s return on investment is recorded as +38.27% and while its return on assets staying at +29.77%.
The stock has shown weekly downbeat performance of -4.55% which was maintained for the month at -0.67%. Likewise the positive performance for the quarter was recorded as +11.76% and for the year at +73.67% with YTD performance of +63.51%.
Coming back to the world’s topranking brands in the report, Lets see how they have doing in Stock Market. The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE:KO)’s share price is moving down -0.63% between $38.11 to $38.69 today, trading 3.96 million shares. The company was able to generate revenue of $47.51 billion in the last 12 months and for the same period has earned $8.72 billion. Twelve trailing months’ earnings per share reached a value of $1.89. The price ratios of the company include the P/C ratio of 10.18, Price/Sales 3.64 and Price/Book ratio 5.36.
International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM) The price of the stock is trending down -0.76% today and is assigned a beta value of 0.67. The total debt represents 158% of the company’s equity and the total long-term debt in relation to the equity amounts to 121%. Last fiscal year, a return +74.65% on equity of was realized. The firm’s trailing twelve months’ revenue amounts to $106.10 billion and the gross margin is 47.40%. Further in profitability ratios, its operating margin appears at 20.07% and net profit margin at 15.34%.
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) shares are up +0.42% to $29.61 while the stock is traded within the range of $29.54 – $29.89 in the current trading session. In the last 12 months the shares have traded between $24.26 and $32.95. The current session’s volume of 17.74 million shares is lower than their average daily trading volume of 40.90 million shares.
Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) shares in the current session moved down –0.97% reaching at $754.41. The stock traded in a range of $753.01 – $765.99. In the last year the stock has moved within a range of $480.60 – $765.99. The current session’s volume of 1.34 million shares is lower from their average daily trading volume of 2.80 million shares.
Whereas rising brands include Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) which is down -0.97% to $249.56 and Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ:ORCL) up +0.09% to $31.69.