Is Valve bigger than Apple?

Is Valve bigger than Apple, no, Valve is not bigger than Apple by almost any financial metric, as Apple is one of largest companies in world by market capitalization, revenue, and employees, while Valve is private but much smaller in comparison. Apple as of 2024 to 2025 has market cap around 2 to 3 trillion dollars, annual revenue over 380 billion dollars, and over 160,000 employees, with products including iPhone, Mac, iPad, services, and App Store. Valve is private company with estimated annual revenue around 10 to 13 billion dollars, primarily from Steam's 30 percent cut of game sales, estimated valuation around 10 to 20 billion dollars, and only few hundred employees, estimated around 350 to 400. So Apple is roughly 100 times larger in revenue and over 100 times larger in valuation. However, in specific niche of PC gaming distribution, Valve is dominant and bigger than Apple, as Steam is dominant PC game store while Apple has minimal presence in PC gaming. Valve also has outsized influence in gaming relative to size, and profit per employee is extremely high. But overall corporate size, financial scale, global reach, and market value, Apple is far larger than Valve, which remains relatively small, private, and focused on gaming.