A watan Afrilun da ya gabata, Apple ya fitar da takaddun ma'auni kwata-kwata. Ba wai sun yi asara ba ne ko kuma sun buga wani abin kunya ba, amma sun sanya shi a hukumance cewa wannan shi ne karo na farko tun bayan gabatarwar ta a 2007 da iPhone ta sayar da kasa da a daidai wannan lokacin na shekarar da ta gabata. Manyan masu hannun jarin na Apple sun sayar da duk hannun jarin su a lokacin da Tim Cook da kamfanin suka wuce amma, bisa ga jerin Fortune 500, kamfanin apple ba shi da kyau.
Fortune 500 jerin jadawalin shekara ne wanda mujallar Fortune ke bugawa wanda ke tara 500 manyan kamfanoni a Amurka don fa'idodin da aka samu a cikin shekarar kasafin kuɗi. A cikin 2015, Apple ya kasance a matsayi na 5 na wannan jerin, amma a cikin 2016, duk da "mara kyau", duba ƙididdiga, sakamakon da aka samu, kamfanin da Tim Cook ya jagoranta ya sami ribar dala miliyan 233.700 kuma ya hau zuwa na uku a kan jerin, sun wuce Chevron da Berkshire Hathaway.
Apple shine kamfani na uku a jerin 500 Fortune 2016
Kamfanoni biyu ne ke gaban Apple a wannan jeri: Wallmart da Exxon Mobil, bayan sun tara dala biliyan 482.100 da dala biliyan 246.200. Idan muka kalli alkaluman, zamu iya tunanin cewa matsayi na biyu a kan wannan jeri yana iya kaiwa ga Apple, amma har yanzu yana da sauran hanya mai tsawo don ɗaukar wuri na farko.
Matsayi na uku na Apple akan jerin Fortune 500 yana da mahimmanci idan muka yi la'akari da cewa kamfanin fasaha na gaba da ke bayyana a kai (ba tare da haɗawa da masu aiki irin su AT&T ko Verizon ba) shine HP, wanda ke matsayi na 20, Microsoft a matsayi na 25. kuma Alphabet, sabon sunan Google, a matsayi na 36. Wannan yana nuna cewa Apple bai riga ya halaka ba kuma ga alama har yanzu da sauran sauran aiki.