Capharnaum wrote: jdsd0517 wrote: Nah, mate. That is egregiously wrong and demonstrates a deep misunderstanding of Apple's history.
Apple was on fire when it did it's IPO in 1980. How strong was the offering?
1977 = $773K in revenues and breakeven
1978 = $7,883K in revenues and $0.03 EPS
1979 = $47,939K in revenues and $0.12 EPS
1980 = $117,902K in revenues and $0.24 EPS
Those are real EPS numbers, but BS "adjusted numbers". And that growth was organic, not via acquisition.
So YES, they BOOMED right away as a company. They then hit hard times because the Wintel duopoly kicked in and the fact that they were integrated up the stack hit them hard in a tornado market.
Jobs came back and the rest is history. And it is worth noting that much of their superior OS can trace its roots back to Next (Jobs' company post Apple)
Apple's share price was stalled between 1987 and 1998, literally no return for shareholders. Heck, Apple almost died.
Plus, your "explanation" that WELL is not Apple or Amazon makes little sense if what you meant by "booming" is just high revenue growth since inception. Amazon's revenue took a fairly long time to initially ramp up before it started to sharply increase (mainly when they switched away from the focus on the online bookstore model), and Apple's current "Boom" has happened during its revival when they launched products that were vastly different from what they initially did, after it nearly died.
As to whether Apple has a superior OS, I think that's up to discussion. They certainly have a superior marketing department, that's for sure.
WELL Health went from $10M annual revenue in 2018 (for 14 months of operations) to $50M in 2020 and should close 2021 with around $300M in revenue. They should hit $450M in 2022. From a revenue growth standpoint, that's pretty much a "boom".