Apple entered the top 100 of the new rating hundred fastest growing companies in the world by Fortune. Over a period of the past three years the iPhone and iPad maker demonstrated average earnings growth of 26%, with sales up 28%.
One of the factors, lowering the position of the American consumer electronics giant from 38 to 88 positions in the rankings, became the company's financial report for the III quarter of the 2013-2014 fiscal year, when the profit and performance of iPhone sales were slightly below expectations of Wall Street analysts. Total for the quarter, the company sold 35.2 million smartphones iPhone, against 31.2 million a year earlier. With sales of the iPad totaled 13.2 million, versus $ 14.6 million a year earlier, players iPod - 2,9 Mln.
In the ranking of the fastest growing companies by Fortune in 2012, Apple took 8th place.
It is interesting to note that in the first place in the list of Fortune is an American pharmaceutical company Questcor Pharmaceuticals. She specializes in the treatment of autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. The main source of income for her - a drug Acthar, which is introduced by injection and is used to treat 19 different problems, including multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, and infantile spasms.