Apple (MIC:AAPL-RM) Quality Rank

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What is Apple Quality Rank?

The Quality Rank measures the business quality of a company relative to other companies. It is ranked based on the strength of the balance sheet, as well as the profitability and growth of the business. The ranked companies are split in equal numbers and then ranked from 1 to 10, with 10 being the highest.

The rank of balance sheet (30%)

The rank of balance sheet is done through the ranking of:
  • Interest coverage
  • Zscore
  • Debt to revenue
  • Equity to asset
  • Cash to debt

The rank of Profitability (70%)

The ranking of Profitability is done by ranking:
  • Operating margin mean rank (10-year mean average profit margine)
  • Operating margin growth rank
  • Fscore
  • Predictability rank
  • Revenue growth rank (5 year), when the growth is higher than 25%, set it as 25%
  • Num of year profit (number of years that is profitable within the last 10 years)
  • ROIC median (10-year median of ROIC)

Apple Quality Rank Related Terms

Apple Business Description

Address One Apple Park Way, Cupertino, CA, USA, 95014
Apple designs, manufactures, and markets smartphones, personal computers, tablets, wearables, and accessories, and sells a growing portfolio of related services. Its products include the iPhone smartphone line, Mac computers, iPad tablets, Apple Watch, AirPods, and the Apple Vision Pro spatial computer, all built on Apple's own operating systems and, increasingly, its own silicon. Services span the App Store, advertising, AppleCare support, iCloud, digital content subscriptions such as Apple Music, Apple TV+, and Apple Arcade, and payment services including Apple Pay. Apple manages its business on a geographic basis across five segments: Americas, Europe, Greater China, Japan, and Rest of Asia Pacific. Products are sold through Apple's retail and online stores and direct sales force as well as third-party carriers, resellers, and distributors, serving consumer, business, education, enterprise, and government customers worldwide.