In NASDAQ trading today, Apple Inc. (AAPL) shares gained $7.03, or 1.31%, on above average volume to set a new all-time closing high of $542.44.
Appel previous all-time high was $535.41, set yesterday.
Apple’s new all-time intraday high is $547.61, also set today. Apple’s 52-week low stands at $310.50.
Apple’s market value currently stands at $505.75 billion.
The top five U.S. publicly-traded companies, based on market value:
1. Apple (AAPL) – $505.75B
2. Exxon Mobil (XOM) – $407.69B
3. Microsoft (MSFT) – $266.32B
4. IBM (IBM) – $228.21B
5. GE (GE) – $201.57B
Selected companies’ current market values:
• Wal-Mart (WMT) – $202.41B
• Google (GOOG) – $201.02B
• Intel (INTC) – $134.29B
• Cisco (CSCO) – $107.07B
• Amazon (AMZN) – $81.77B
• Disney (DIS) – $77.22B
• Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) – $50.14B
• Dell (DELL) – $30.76B
• Sony (SNE) – $21.47B
• Nokia (NOK) – $19.63B
• Yahoo! (YHOO) – $18.40B
• Adobe (ADBE) – $16.24B
• Motorola Mobility (MMI) – $11.98B
• Research In Motion (RIMM) – $7.30B
• Sirius XM (SIRI) – $8.49B
• Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) – $5.13B
• RealNetworks (RNWK) – $0.35B
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Naysayers?
just tune into CNBC…
Been watching all day. I consider CNBC = Google. Lies, lies & more lies. Plyoffs & Power though unethical practices.
CNBC = Crap and Nothing But Crap
But I guess that’s what you said already…
I would never naysay my precious but WTF is up with 3:15 the last few days? Is that a programmed time to sell?
Check 2:00 history. There’s always been a mysterious dip at that point. Never hot a good explanation.
Close to double up MST…
…and nearly $100m more than XOM.
…and that’s supposed to be with a B, not an M……. $100B!
… make it $100B
better turn that m into a b 🙂
Ha ha, look at DELL!
Appel is the best:
http://appel.nasa.gov
Hello Mr. Dull!
Has anyone else noticed the absence of naysayer Apple comments on other tech and investment sites? Those naysayers belittled and so arrogantly bashed our beloved computer toy maker so frequently. Now all there is deafening silence. Life is Good $$$$$$$$$$ in @ $42.00 and still rising.
That’s why I love MDN. You can count on MDN to remind those douchebags to STFU and bend over. Your about to get another arse kicking, again and again and again. Starting when Apple was a mere 7 bucks or so before SJ return.
I hear you on that. I remember sitting, uncomfortably, in a meeting whilst some asshole looked right at me and my lone Mac laptop and said, “And Apple, aren’t they out of business?”
And the low chuckle of knowing scorn that followed.
Best served cold……
Yeah, and being told to ‘get a real computer’.
Gawd almighty, I hate Windohs.
So true, 24january1984. I recall a similar incident while attending a meeting in a rented facility at HP’s head office sometime around 1996. I guess part of the rental deal was allowing an HP sales manager thingy to promote their future landfillware. He took time from his spiel to exclaim that ‘we don’t know what Apple’s future is but we’re sure it will be very different.’
He was so right, but not in the way he thought. Good luck to him and HP; they need it…
It’s why I dislike Windows and their IT/CIO dones. I was laughed at so many times during meetings. Laughed at in my little cubicle then Office as I continued to produced. Yet they refused to acknowledge I can do what I do because of the freedom the Mac gives me. Even when Windows 95, a complete ripoff the Mac, was giving those Windows 3 dorks a taste of the Mac, they still dissed me. They even refused to acknowledge how Windows completely copied the Mac with W95! Jerks!
Having been a Mac user since the early-90’s, I’ve certainly had to live with that kind of crap for a long time. Now even the diehard Windows people are asking me about Macs as they want a better mate for their iPhones and/or iPads. Times are good.
I could never have imagined this turnaround back in the late-90’s when Jobs came back with NeXT. I knew things would get better as things couldn’t possibly have gotten worse when Sculley, Spindler and Amelio were running Apple, but this has all exceeded my wildest expectations. We’re truly witnessing a momentous and epoch-definining history in the making.
As someone who was disappointed they didn’t buy Be, I’ve rarely been so happy to be so wrong.
I remember Be very well. It looked like a very attractive OS and, *at that time*, I would have been happy with the acquisition of Be as well. It was like, “Geez, *ANYTHING* but this Copland and Gershwin fiasco that was like a rock chained to Apple’s ankle dragging them down to the bottom of the sea!”
I was always very intrigued by NeXT. I loved the look of it although I didn’t know very much about the technical underpinnings like object-oriented OS, Unix/Mach kernel, protected memory, preemptive multi-tasking, etc. that defined a “modern” OS that Apple so desperately needed. I even bought a book about the NeXTStep OS although I knew I would never buy a NeXT computer or an Intel box with the OS installed. I just thought it looked beautiful.
Be looked great too and there was a lot of debate going on at the time on who Apple should acquire because it was clear that Copland had bombed. In some ways, Be looked even more attractive than NeXT in terms of features and what it can do. I preferred NeXT and really didn’t think SJ would come back to be the CEO. I remember not wanting him to be the CEO at the time because he seemed like a firecracker who wasn’t the right type of CEO when Apple was in such deep trouble.
Man, was I wrong in a major way. But based on NeXT’s history and the way he got dumped by Apple in ’85, it just didn’t seem he had the discipline nor a handle on operations. Personally, I still find that aspect of SJ’s management style more fascinating than the whole “Reality Distortion Field” aspect – the strict operational discipline and fiscally conservative side. I didn’t think he had those qualities at all to be a great CEO and lead Apple out of its seemingly hopeless mess.
Well, SJ proved me and a whole lot others wrong and the rest is history now. He sure had an eye for talent. What are the odds of finding a Tim Cook to run Apple’s operations back in ’98? Or recognizing Jonathan Ive within the old Apple fold and setting him free to design to his heart’s content? Beyond amazing…
When you consider this history, it’s quite obvious that SJ installed some great talent in his top management team and that Apple is in excellent hands. In fact, Apple should get even better now under the guidance of TC, JI, SF, PS, etc. SJ’s legacy will get even greater with how his handpicked team carried on after he died. $1T? It’s not a matter of if but when…
By Michael Rogers, Published in MSNB
Excerpted from “What’s Ahead for 2003?” – Jan 06, 2003
There are always certain stories on the horizon where I expect some plot turns, and this week I’ll suggest a few prospects for the 2003 watch-list. […] Apple Gets Married: There are only so many redesigns of the iMac left for Cupertino, and being the Bang and Olufsen of computers doesn’t look like a longtime niche. The company is moving toward the consumer electronics space, in everything from digital media boxes to handheld players — but that is even more vicious and margin-thin territory than the PC biz.
Even for Steve Jobs, going up against Sony has to look a bit scary. So does Apple license their cool media software for others to build into devices? The one time they tried licensing, Apple execs pulled the plug quickly. The elegant fusion of hardware and software is the DNA of Apple; seeing the Apple logo come up on the screen of some tinny consumer junk seems like sacrilege. Apple needs a long-term partnership, or even an outright sale, to someone who really knows how to play the game.
My candidate: Canon. Jobs has a long-term relationship with the company (they helped him both get into and out of his NeXT computer venture). And check out those new ads with an Apple on one page and a Canon camera on the other: when you give that much expensive space to someone they better be more than just a friend.
It just goes to show how little we can predict about who wins and who loses.
Apple is now worth about 9.5 times the value of Canon and over 23 times the value of Sony and could purchase both out of its own cash. But that’s a 20/20 hindsight call.
In January 2003, Apple reported that – for the quarter ending 12/28/02 – it made sales of $1.472 billion and an operating loss of $37 million. All in all, it had sold 743,000 Macintosh systems and it had not yet started breaking iPod sales into a separate item, listing them as part of $218 million of Peripherals & Other HW. It wasn’t until the following year that you discovered it was 219,000 iPods for $81 million.
Apple at the time probably had about $3.8 billion on hand and was worth under $7 billion.
It’s easy to criticise Rogers’ commentary now: Apple selling hundreds of millions of iOS devices gives us a comfortable vantage point from which to view events.
Anyone who says that they could have foreseen year-on-year Mac unit sales growth of over 20%. and annualised dollar sales growth of nearly 43% back in January 2003 is screwing with you.
The iPod was still a Firewire-only peripheral (no mini, no nano, no shuffle) and would be for another three months (coinciding with the opening of the iTunes store) and the full Windows version of iTunes was around 9 months away.
Next up for Apple in a few days: 2X Microsofts value!