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Re:Apple cuts Tim Cook's pay 15% for missing sales goals by ProAm on Friday January 06, 2017 @02:01PM (#13339145)
> The company you say is in "total disarray" still made $45.7bn in profit in 2016, and grew its share price by 10%.

Microsoft was very profitable with Ballmer at the helm, but it can be argued he put the company in a very bad position that took them significant effort to fix and right the ship.

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Re:Apple cuts Tim Cook's pay 15% for missing sales goals by tybit on Friday January 06, 2017 @05:01PM (#13340681)
Very profitable? Their stock flatlined for a decade while it's peers sky rocketed.
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Re:Apple cuts Tim Cook's pay 15% for missing sales goals by ProAm on Friday January 06, 2017 @06:06PM (#13341148)
The stock was flat but they were very profitable. Look here: "Microsoft was very profitable during Steve Ballmer's tenure. As you can see from the chart, revenue doubled and net income doubled as well. Nearly $19 Billion in net income from $62 Billion in revenue is nothing to sneeze at, and that kind of growth is not easy for a company that large." [1]

[1] https://www.quora.com/Did-microsoft-make-a-profit-under-stev...

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