亞馬遜要超越蘋果,成全球最大市值公司

Apple Inc, the world's most valuable publicly listed company, is in danger of being beaten by Inc to the $1 trillion mark.

蘋果公司是世界上市值最高的上市公司，然而它可能會被市值將破1萬億美元的亞馬遜公司超越。

Wall Street's optimism about last year's 10th anniversary iPhone had propelled Apple's stock 24 percent higher over the past 12 months, giving it a market capitalization of $893 billion.

華爾街看好蘋果公司去年推出的十週年特別款蘋果手機，這也促使蘋果公司的股票在過去的12個月上漲了24%，使其市值增至8930億美元。

That is $141 billion more than the $752 billion market value of Amazon, the world's third most valuable publicly listed company, but Amazon has been closing the gap.

亞馬遜公司是世界上市值排名第三的上市公司，其市值達7520億美元，而蘋果公司的市值要比它的高1410億美元，但亞馬遜公司正在縮短它們之間的差距。

Amazon's stock has surged 83 percent over the past year, bolstered by scorchingly fast revenue growth as more shopping moves online and businesses shift their computing operations to the cloud, where Amazon Web Services leads the market.

因爲更多的購物轉至線上，而且商業運算操作也轉向雲計算，而亞馬遜網絡服務在這一市場上占主導地位，因此亞馬遜公司的收益迅速增長，這也促使它的股票在過去的一年裏暴漲83%。

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To be sure, past stock gains are not a reliable predictor of future performance, and the surge in Amazon shares in recent years has been exceptional by most standards.

誠然，過去的股票收益並非未來業績的可靠預測器，但按照大多數標準衡量，亞馬遜公司的股票在近幾年的表現都十分優異。

If Amazon's stock were to keep growing on the trajectory seen over the past year, the company's market capitalization would hit $1 trillion in late August.

如果亞馬遜的股票按照近一年來的增幅繼續上漲的話，該公司的市值將在八月下旬突破10000億美元。

Most Wall Street analysts are not quite that enthusiastic.

不過華爾街的多數分析師對此並沒有這麼熱衷。

Analysts covering Amazon on average expect its stock to rise 10 percent within the next year to reach $1,700, which would give it a market value of $823 billion.

分析師們通常認爲，亞馬遜的股票在未來一年內有望上漲10%，達到1700美元，這將使其市值達到8230億美元。