全球市值最高的五家公司均为科技公司

如果你一直在等待乏味的证据，证明科技行业是美国最健康的行业之一，下面就是你想要的证据。据彭博社的数据显示，世界市值最高的五家公司全部都来自科技行业，这在历史上尚属首次。这些公司入榜并不出人意料——其中有苹果、谷歌、微软等，但此事的里程碑意义，必将鼓舞投资者和求职者。

苹果以5,710亿美元的市值高居榜首，之后依次是Alphabet（谷歌）和微软，市值分别为5,400亿美元和4,410亿美元。亚马逊（Amazon）以3,640亿美元的市值紧随其后，第五位为Facebook，市值为3,570亿美元。

今年榜单的大新闻便来自亚马逊和Facebook。这两家公司将石油行业巨头埃克森美孚挤出了前五名的行列。埃克森美孚自1980年以来，甚至在2000年代初互联网泡沫时期，也一直雄踞该榜单的前五名。换言之：这是前所未有的情况。

求职者应该注意了。市值可以看做是潜在雇主健康状况的晴雨表。如果听到像苹果和谷歌这样的科技业巨头正在大规模招聘（他们确实正在这样做），很少有人会感到意外，不过这则消息还是证明了整个科技行业无与伦比的优势。

以任天堂（Nintendo）为例。《口袋妖怪GO》（Pokémon Go）的巨大成功使公司市值翻了一番，相当于424亿美元——而这一成功的标志是任天堂的许可发行商The Pokémon Company就业岗位的增加。CEB TalentNeuron提供的Monster数据显示，过去一个季度，苹果和亚马逊的招聘职位也呈现增长趋势，其中后者新增了超过450个岗位。

此外，随着越来越多的公司公布季度收入，通过过去几周陆续公布的科技公司收入，也可以明显看出科技行业的实力。手工艺品交易平台Etsy预计第2季度的收入为8,000万美元，而视频游戏出版商电子艺界（Electronic Arts）的收益，超出预期30%以上。

事实上，科技行业的业绩如此喜人，以至于《华尔街日报》称科技行业是这一糟糕的季度当中，为数不多的亮点之一，是收益上涨幅度最高的行业。在打破销售额预期方面，仅有医疗保健行业高于科技行业。（财富中文网）

译者：刘进龙/汪皓

If you’ve been waiting for cut-and-dried evidence that the tech industry is one of the nation’s healthiest, here it is. For the first time ever, according to Bloomberg data, the five highest-value companies in the world are all in the tech industry. The players are the ones you’d expect—Apple, Google, Microsoft MSFT 0.14% and so on—but it marks a milestone that should be encouraging to investors and job seekers alike.

Apple AAPL 0.94% leads, with a $571B market capitalization, followed by Alphabet (Google) GOOG 0.35% at $540B and Microsoft at $441B. Amazon AMZN 0.23% followed at $364B, and Facebook rounded out the top five at $357B.

Amazon and Facebook FB 0.27% are the big news here. The companies knocked oil giant ExxonMobil XOM 0.67% out of the top five, where it’s held a spot since 1980—even during the early-2000s dot-com bubble. Literally: This has never happened before.

Job seekers should take note. Market cap can serve as a barometer of a potential employer’s health, and while few people will be surprised to hear that the Apples and Googles of the world are hiring at scale (they are), the news speaks to the world-beating ascendance of the tech industry as a whole.

Look at Nintendo, for instance. The runaway success of Pokémon Go has doubled the company’s market cap to the equivalent of $42.4B—success that has been marked by an uptick in jobs at Nintendo-licensed distributor The Pokémon Company. Monster data, provided by CEB TalentNeuron, also reveals an upward trend in job postings from Apple and Amazon over the past quarter, with the latter adding over 450 listings.

Industry strength is also evident in the tech earnings that have been coming out over the past few weeks, as more and more companies release their quarterly revenues. Craft marketplace Etsy is expected to report around $80M in Q2, while videogame publisher Electronic Arts EA 2.08% beat earnings expectations by over 30%.

Earnings are so good, in fact, that the Wall Street Journal has pointed to the tech sector as one of the few bright spots of an underwhelming quarter, with the highest upward earnings revision of any industry. In terms of beating sales estimates, only health care ranked higher.