ITCandor 2009 Vendor Ranking Highlights
I’m pleased to announce that Vodafone was the top performing ITC vendor in view of ITCandor’s Vendor Ranking activities for 2009, based on an assessment of its financial performance, size and a number of other criteria.
- Vodafone tops the list with a score of 64.3 thanks largely to its management of large profits, strong profitability and good profit per employee
- AT&T came in joint second with a score of 63.6 – its best scores were in the massive size of its revenues, profits and headcount
- Apple was the highest ranked IT company in the top 10 – coming in equal second with a score of 63.6. It scored well on revenue/employee, absolute profitability and impressively in revenue growth
- Microsoft came in fourth place in the list, toping the rankings for absolute profit and scoring highly in profitability and profit per employee
- Google was in fifth position punching above its size in terms of employees (just 20k) and delivering strong profitability, revenue per employee and profit per employee
- HP headed up the full range suppliers with a score of 60.1 putting it in sixth position, doing well in terms of its absolute size, but less than the leaders in terms of revenue and profit growth
- As in other markets IBM came just one position below HP in 7th with a score of 59.6. It has the largest headcount of all vendors and also does well in profits; however it didn’t score well in revenue per employee
- Telefonica came in 8th with a score of 58.6, due largely to absolute size in terms of revenues, profits and headcount
- Oracle was in ninth position due to high profits, profitability and profit per employee. These might have been even higher if it hadn’t continued to acquire other suppliers throughout the year
- Ericsson came in 10th position thanks again to its high profits, profitability and profits per employee
How Were The Rankings Calculated?
I now track 80 of the world’s largest ITC vendors as part of my quarterly market assessment. As it’s that time of the year when other publications are giving their ‘Top 10’’ lists, I thought I’d do the same. My rankings are done purely from research findings – I have not assessed the way in which strategies and portfolios affect the success or opportunities of the vendors I track in these figures.
The rankings are for a number of criteria (specifically Revenues, Profits, Headcount, Profitability, Revenue Growth, Profit Growth, Revenue/Employee and Profit/Employee). In every case I’ve made the assumption that big is best (even in the case of employee numbers). I gave equal weight to each of the criteria, adding them up and dividing by 8 (for the number of categories). The maximum score is 80 and lowest achievable 1.
The averages for all ITC vendors against the various criteria are as follows:
- Revenue: $23,742m
- Net Profit: $1,260m
- Headcount: 76,089
- Profitability: 5.3%
- Revenue Growth: -10.5%
- Profit Growth: -24.0%
- Revenue/Employee: $3,120k
- Profit/Employee: $166k
In all cases I’ve included annual figures up to the end of September 2009 and all values wer recalculated to current $US.
Do you want to know where your own company or supplier came in the ranking? Contact me and I’ll let you know.
Filed under: ITC Market Tagged: | Apple, AT&T, Ericsson, Google, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Telefonica, Vodafone
