However, the South Korean company is "not yet a brand that can live without the product," says Jan Lindemann, Interbrand's head of brand valuation.
He joins from J. P. Morgan Chase, where he was European chief financial officer and global head of the valuation control group.
Editor's note: Manish Goyal is the senior manager and Bharat Ramnani is head of business of valuation and advisory services at Aranca.
She is senior vice president, head of estates, appraisals and valuations.
Believers have sent stock prices to unheard-of valuations.
The lukewarm global economy has led to an increase in crime "at the pilfering end of activities," as John Sibbald, the head of business development for Pall Mall Art Advisors, a valuation company in London, put it, and a tenuous geopolitical climate is underpinning fraud.
Despite the high valuation, Stephen Bersey, the head of European software research for SG Cowen, based in London, thinks that Aremissoft's stock is poised to climb again.
Ten are tabulated (right); as a group they're worth well over $30 billion, according to valuations by Corrado Varoli, head of the Latin America mergers and acquisitions group at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter in New York.
Now, as head of a company with a stock market valuation of more than $250 billion, Ballmer is arguably the leading businessman on the planet.
Under rule 157, there is a hierarchy of valuation techniques.
Two movements of valuation are studied.
