Market cap and 2011 2nd Quarter Revenue per employee, for selected technology firms
In terms of market cap and revenue per employee, Apple and Google are in another class.
These results are not correlated with R&D spending. At 2.2 percent, Apple reports the second lowest percent of revenues invested in R&D for the group (only Dell is lower at 1.3 percent), but has the highest revenue and market cap per employee. Google, which ranks second on both metrics, invested 13.7 percent of revenues in R&D. Red Hat, the Linux company, has the highest rate of reinvesting in R&D, of 18.2 percent, and a market cap per employee of $1.97 million — which puts Red Hat 4th out of the ten companies in the comparison.
| Firm | Employment | 2011 2nd quarter revenue /employee | 7 August 2011 Market Cap /employee | R&D as percent of revenue (2nd Quarter 2011) |
| Microsoft | 90,000 | $ 192,967 | $ 2,390,556 | 13.8% |
| Intel | 96,500 | $ 135,047 | $ 1,142,280 | 15.2% |
| 28,768 | $ 313,751 | $ 6,498,888 | 13.7% | |
| Apple | 46,600 | $ 613,112 | $ 7,433,047 | 2.2% |
| HP | 324,600 | $ 97,107 | $ 208,503 | 2.6% |
| Dell | 100,300 | $ 149,721 | $ 283,151 | 1.3% |
| Oracle | 108,429 | $ 99,374 | $ 1,324,461 | 10.9% |
| IBM | 426,751 | $ 62,486 | $ 484,100 | 5.9% |
| Cisco | 70,700 | $ 153,692 | $ 1,162,235 | 13.2% |
| Red Hat | 3,700 | $ 71,554 | $ 1,970,270 | 18.2% |