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What Leaves Apple’s 8,000% Price Rise, Over the Last Ten Years, in the Dust?

By YCHARTS,  August 22, 2012, 12:14:07 PM EDT

Apple ( AAPL ) is the world's most valuable company, as you've probably heard.

But boy, investors have made Apple work hard to get there. The company's profits have risen almost 62,000% in the past decade. That's seven - almost eight - times as much as its stock price.

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Boy, you guys are tough to impress.

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A bunch of low-growth stocks -- Microsoft ( MSFT ), 3M ( MMM ), Wal-Mart ( WMT ), Goldman Sachs ( GS ) -- rate a PE close to Apple's?

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