Apple Online StoreShares of Apple Inc. ran off the perfect week, rising today $1.10, or 0.49%, on lighter than average volume of 14,857,804 shares to set a new all-time closing high of $226.60. This is the sixth straight day of all-time closing and intraday highs, a run that started last Friday, March 05, 2010.

Apple’s previous closing high was $225.50. set yesterday, March 11, 2010. Apple’s all-time high (intraday) stands at $227.73, set during trading today. Apple’s 52-week low was $94.18, set on March 12, 2009.

At market close, Apple’s market value stands at $205.48 billion since financial sites all use the latest published share count for Apple: 906.8 million shares outstanding as of January 15. However, Apple’s actual diluted share count, as per its latest 10-Q, was 919.783 million shares, which means that the company actually has a market cap of $208.42 billion. For the lists below, we’ll use what the financial sites use.

Apple went public on December 12, 1980 and closed with a market cap of $1.431 billion. Apple’s all-time low market value was $630.9 million on July 8, 1982.

The top five U.S. publicly-traded companies:
1. Exxon Mobil (XOM) – $315.38B
2. Microsoft (MSFT) – $256.71B
3. Apple (AAPL) – $205.48B
4. Wal-Mart (WMT) – $205.09B
5. Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA) – $203.20B

Selected companies’ current market values:
• Google (GOOG) – $184.28B
• IBM (IBM) – $166.19B
• Cisco (CSCO) – $148.18B
• Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) – $123.46B
• Intel (INTC) – $117.50B
• Disney (DIS) – $65.34B
• Amazon (AMZN) – $58.60B
• Nokia (NOK) – $55.03B
• Research In Motion (RIMM) – $41.98B
• Sony (SNE) – $37.47B
• Dell (DELL) – $27.91B
• Yahoo! (YHOO) – $22.85B
• Adobe (ADBE) – $18.43B
• Motorola (MOT) – $16.21B
• Palm (PALM) – $926.79M
• RealNetworks (RNWK) – $709.27M

MacDailyNews Note: For some perspective: Apple is worth more than Palm, Motorola, Dell, Sony, Research In Motion, and Nokia combined. With another $25.95 billion to spare.

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