World's Most Innovative Companies

Apple

This multinational company designs and sells consumer electronics, computer software and personal computers. The best known hardware products comprises of Macintosh computers, iPod, iPhone and iPad. The softwares includes Mac OS X operating system, iTunes, iLife, iWork, Aperture, Final Cut Studio, Logic Studio, Safari, iOS etc. Till 2011, Apple had 364 retail stores in 13 countries and an online store. It is the largest technology company in the world by revenue and profit and largest publicly traded company in the world by market capitalisation. From 2008 to 2012, Fortune magazine has regarded it as the most admired company in the world. At the time of establishment the company was named as Apple Computer but in 2007 the word ‘Computer’ was removed as their focus on personal computers moved towards consumer electronics. In last 5 years the company’s average sales growth is 35.1 percent, the net income growth is 60.7 percent, the enterprise value is $303.4 billion and the innovation premium is 48.2 percentage.