Consider it a clash of the titans -- the world's biggest publicly traded company (as measured by market cap) versus the web's most encompassing brand. Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) market cap last weighed in at $1.4 trillion, sporting trailing 12-month revenue of $268 billion. Google's parent company Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG) isn't quite as big or as profitable with a market cap of $1.04 trillion and TTM revenue of $161.9 billion, but the Google logo remains one of the web's most recognized brands, edging out Apple on that front.
Size isn't necessarily everything to investors, of course. Apple is bigger, but its profits are also divvied up among more shareholders. Alphabet may have more opportunities for growth. Each company should be weighed on its own merits and prospects.
To that end, if an investor only had room for one name or the other right now in his or her stock portfolio, which would be the better bet?
Source Fool.com