Last April, Apple released a negative quarterly balance sheet. Not that they had losses or published anything scandalous, but they did make it official that it was the first time since its introduction in 2007 that the iPhone sold less than in the same period of the previous year. The two main shareholders of Apple sold all their shares by the time Tim Cook and company passed but, according to the list F, the apple company is not doing so bad.
Fortune 500 is an annual list published by Fortune magazine that collects the 500 largest corporations in the United States for the benefits obtained in the fiscal year. In 2015, Apple was in the 5th position of this list, but in 2016, despite the "bad", see the quotes, results obtained, the company directed by Tim Cook has achieved a profit of 233.700 million dollars and has climbed to third on the list, overtaking Chevron and Berkshire Hathaway.
Apple is the third company on the 500 Fortune 2016 list
There are only two companies ahead of Apple on this list: Wallmart and Exxon Mobil, having raised $ 482.100 billion and $ 246.200 billion respectively. Looking at the figures, we can think that the second position on this list is within reach of Apple, but it still has a long way to go to take the first place.
Apple's third position on the Fortune 500 list seems more important if we take into account that the next technology company that appears on it (not including operators such as AT&T or Verizon) is HP, which is in 20th place, Microsoft in 25th place. and A, the new name of Google, in position 36. This shows that Apple is not yet doomed and it seems that it is still a long way from it.