[LINK] Hard disk storage: 8 GB costs as much as a roll of toilet paper

[Scott Howard]

On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Stilgherrian <stil at stilgherrian.com>wrote:

> > You appear to be forgetting about Microsoft...
>
> No, I am not. After Apple's quarterly earnings figures were announced this
> week, there share price rose. Microsoft is now in third place. That said,
> Microsoft is claiming S&P's methodology is flawed.
>

The S&P 500 is NOT a measure of Market Cap.  It's a measure of the value of
the shared that are available to be publicly traded, and is not in any real
sense a true measure of the value of the company.  Market capitalization is
clearly defined as being based on the number of shares outstanding, and not
just those that are available to be publicly traded.

According to Google Finance, the numbers are :
MSFT - 8.77B shares @ 30.99 = $271.80B
APPL - 909.64M shares @ 270.83 = $246.36B

  Scott