In NASDAQ trading today, Apple Inc. (AAPL) shares today gained $4.56, or 1.00%, on below-average volume of 10,135,539 shares to set a new all-time closing high of $459.68.
Apple also set a new all-time intraday high today of $460.00.
Apple’s previous all-time closing high was $456.48 set on January 31, 2012. Apple’s 52-week low stands at $310.50.
Apple’s market value currently stands at $428.59 billion.
The top five U.S. publicly-traded companies, based on market value:
1. Apple (AAPL) – $428.59B
2. Exxon Mobil (XOM) – $407.04B
3. Microsoft (MSFT) – $253.74B
4. IBM (IBM) – $224.62B
5. Wal-Mart (WMT) – $212.43B
Selected companies’ current market values:
• GE (GE) – $200.97B
• Google (GOOG) – $193.89B
• Intel (INTC) – $135.55B
• Cisco (CSCO) – $108.00B
• Amazon (AMZN) – $85.35B
• Disney (DIS) – $71.86B
• Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) – $57.68B
• Dell (DELL) – $31.73B
• Yahoo! (YHOO) – $19.76B
• Sony (SNE) – $19.28B
• Nokia (NOK) – $19.00B
• Adobe (ADBE) – $15.73B
• Motorola Mobility (MMI) – $11.70B
• Research In Motion (RIMM) – $8.71B
• Sirius XM (SIRI) – $8.04B
• Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) – $5.18B
• RealNetworks (RNWK) – $0.38B
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Smack Down in CuperTown.
You know, maybe it is time to spend some cash and buy Adobe (to simplify Acrobat), RIM (to use their security patents), Nintendo (for gaming) and Dell (to shut it down and give the money…you know the rest).
Microsoft appears to be inching it’s way up to catch Apple. It’s rise is barely perceptible, but it’s definitely climbing. They’re just waiting for that Windows 8 tablet breakout.
Some notes I kept:
Q2-2010 financial results
Analysts’ consensus estimates currently call for Apple to report $2.46 EPS on $12.04 billion in revenue. On January 25, 2010, Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer guided for “revenue in the range of about $11.0 billion to $11.4 billion” and “diluted earnings per share in the range of about $2.06 to $2.18.”
I would love to see a chart or the numbers based off Apple’s recent increases in cash extrapolated into the future to give a countdown until Apple has enough cash in hand to buy Microsoft outright : P
Apple should earn another $35B this fiscal year. And $65B for the 2013FY, would put Apple in the $200B neighborhood. Microsoft will be back to under $200B by then, when Win8 does a belly flop.
If Apple would just create a few more shares, calculating the Company value from the share price would be so much easier!