Apple’s previous closing high was $226.60. set on March 12, 2010. Apple’s all-time high (intraday) stands at $228.78, set during trading today. Apple’s 52-week low was $101.75, set on March 23, 2009.
At market close, Apple’s market value stands at $207.08 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 $210.04 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) – $316.09B
2. Microsoft (MSFT) – $262.06B
3. Wal-Mart (WMT) – $212.66B
4. Apple (AAPL) – $207.08B
5. Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA) – $203.58B
Selected companies’ current market values:
• Google (GOOG) – $174.57B
• IBM (IBM) – $168.05B
• Cisco (CSCO) – $152.53B
• Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) – $124.64B
• Intel (INTC) – $125.24B
• Disney (DIS) – $65.96B
• Amazon (AMZN) – $57.46B
• Nokia (NOK) – $56.59B
• Research In Motion (RIMM) – $42.02B
• Sony (SNE) – $40.58B
• Dell (DELL) – $29.79B
• Yahoo! (YHOO) – $22.45B
• Adobe (ADBE) – $18.46B
• Motorola (MOT) – $17.00B
• RealNetworks (RNWK) – $694.44M
• Beleaguered Palm (PALM) – $677.08M
AAPL quote via NASDAQ here.
MDN here’s something to consider. A graph for the last few months (or 1 year) of MSFT against AAPL.
Here you go, Sid:
Wolfram Alpha: AAPL vs. MSFT market cap
This is killing me. About a month ago I accedently closed three long call options I had on apple. Waiting for a pull back to buy new ones.
Actually, the graph of MSFT for the past TEN years has been essentially flat. MSFT does, however, pay a dividend.
Here’s just the 5 year chart: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=AAPL&t=5y&l=off&z=m&q=l&c=MSFT
However, not sure if this chart shows what having MSFT’s market share results in or whether the IPO’s of each differed wildly: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=AAPL&t=my&l=off&z=m&q=l&c=MSFT
The right nickname.
i accidentally bought 2 long call options on aapl today and it’s definitely paying off. 250 by the end of April!
Thanks MDN. My suggestion is to include the graph of AAPL and MSFT everytime you post an article of a new AAPL high.
I told ya.
(It was kind of nice to have a few days off.)
MSFT seems to be stuck now, after its stock rose from around $25 to around $30. AAPL is on the rise again, with more good news likely in the next 30 to 90 days. If AAPL goes above $290, and MSFT stays in its current range, Apple’s market cap will exceed Microsoft’s. That would be a remarkable achievement.
$55 Billion to go….
Remember this: Wed, Jan 21, 2009 -AAPL: 78.20.
We’ve come a long way baby!
What is more impressive is Berkshire Hathaway. They don’t produce or sell anything.
Does anyone know why Google was down 8.50 today?
@silverhawk
Because Google stopped filtering Chinese searches. Pretty much admitting they are leaving.
Right now, MSFT is trading at the high-end of its normal range for the last 9 years. And, given the volatility in the past year, where MSFT traded as low as $16.88 or about $148B, there is hope that Apple could conceivably catch them, though they will need help from MSFT. It’s very possible given that the euphoria from MSFT traders thinking that W7 is driving real sales, when in fact, it’s more likely a one-time bump from pent-up demand. Even last quarter, $1.9B of MSFT sales were due to deferred revenues from W7 sales booked in previous quarters, a one-time bump.
The share count vs. share price is off for the other companies on the list as well. The others are more valuable than shown, not just AAPL.
Here’s to Apple going up to $295, just to bust Microsoft’s hump. The pundits will say something about how can a high-tech toy company be worth more than the almighty Microsoft that powers all the world’s businesses with Windows desktop OS and MS Office.
Google was down because I think investors feel that Google is going to get kicked out of China for trying to circumvent Communist China’s government policies. Imperialism at its worst.