In NASDAQ trading today, Apple Inc. (AAPL) shares gained $21.48, or 3.78%, on well above average volume of 50,045,831 to set a new all-time closing high of $589.58.
Apple’s previous all-time closing high was $568.10, set yesterday.
Apple’s all-time intraday high is $594.73, also set today. Apple’s 52-week low stands at $310.50.
Apple’s market value currently stands at $548.95 billion.
The top five U.S. publicly-traded companies, based on market value:
1. Apple (AAPL) – $548.95B
2. Exxon Mobil (XOM) – $405.01B
3. Microsoft (MSFT) – $274.42B
4. IBM (IBM) – $237.40B
5. GE (GE) – $209.56B
Selected companies’ current market values:
• Wal-Mart (WMT) – $209.29B
• Google (GOOG) – $200.01B
• Intel (INTC) – $137.02B
• Cisco (CSCO) – $108.66B
• Amazon (AMZN) – $82.75B
• Disney (DIS) – $79.97B
• Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) – $48.19B
• Dell (DELL) – $30.92B
• Sony (SNE) – $21.66B
• Nokia (NOK) – $18.29B
• Yahoo! (YHOO) – $17.73B
• Adobe (ADBE) – $16.65B
• Motorola Mobility (MMI) – $11.98B
• Research In Motion (RIMM) – $6.77B
• Sirius XM (SIRI) – $8.58B
• Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) – $5.43B
• RealNetworks (RNWK) – $0.35B
AAPL quote via NASDAQ here.
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AAPL is up over 55% in the last 3 months and the P/E is only at 16. That’s insane!
Basically, AAPL is climbing like crazy and is still very cheap. Especially for a company positioned to grow revenue 100%+ y/y for the next couple years.
Why would you buy any other stock? I just wish I had more money to put into it. I’ll have to check my couch cushions.
No point to be made of AAPL being 2x the cap value of MSFT?
The point was made earlier in the day, you blind bastard:
You SOB! don’t call him a bastard! 😉
Just kidding. Anyone want to open this 2003 Merlot Bordeaux with me? 😉
Be glad to!
SOB, yeah it was made earlier but like others I want to say that over and over and over.
I’ll bet chairs are flying in Redmond. haha
Awesome *pops virtual cork*
and yeah… Ballmer must be in an epic rage right now.
He swears that Windows 8 will change all that and put Microsoft back in its rightful place. He vows to take back all the desktop PC market share lost to Apple, while somehow forgetting that the desktop PC has lost its relevancy.
And yet, reality tells him “no.”
SOB,
The point, which apparently you did not see, is that the 2x was true only briefly, lost in the afternoon decline (in which Apple lost twelve points off the peak), and regained shortly before closing.
Glasses, anyone?
Sure thing *clinK*
Not me, I pounded too many beers last night with some of the engineers. I’ll drive.
They didn’t happen to leave behind an iPhone 5 in the bar, did they? 😉
and just 52B to be 3X Google.
By the end of this week Apple would zoom past Google in share price. It’s just another $26! How unbelievable is it when hardly less than 1 year ago Google was $670 and Apple was $280. When Apple reaches $1,000 Google would have retreated to $500. Google would rue the day when it became greedy and decided to do rough justice by stabbing its best friend in the back.
Google is getting its comeuppance. It has many fierce enemies, both big and small. If it has not betray Apple, life for Google might be a lot more bearable.
This is a really good time to be an Apple shareholder!
Still twice M$!
Hello Mr. Dull. The new XPOS review doesn’t help your POS stock either. lol
So tomorrow a profit taking day?
God I hope so.
How long before Apple exceeds Exxon and Microsoft combined?
got to happen soon. My bet is Friday or Monday after the iPad is released.
It’s not just that they’re 2x the value of MSFT now, but keep in mind that MSFT is still the 3rd most valuable company in America! That just shows how enormously valuable AAPL has become!
There was around 29-30 billion dollars or more traded on AAPL today.
The closing price the previous day is not the same price that the stock opens at the next day. There is also after hours trading and pre-open trading too. All of that plus rumors affect the next day opening price.
$600 ceiling about to be SMASHED. Watch out for falling glass.
I found reasons not to buy at $7 (split-adjusted), $50 and $80 (twice). I am an idiot.
Johnny: We’ve all felt that. I’m just glad I bought that first share, and then a bunch more.
The first was the most difficult.
Yep, I’m just happy for all you guys who got in – often against the professional advice of your brokers!
Here’s a happy thought: Just think of all the shares Ballmer, Mikey, and the RIMM boys DIDN’T BUY!
I had to sell @ $250 for the downpayment to my house.
Needless to say, the house isn’t doing quite as well.
Mail man going to need TWO hands to lift my brokerage statement at the end of the month.
If you look at the average money daily moved for stocks, then Microsoft became really only a rounding error against Apple, less than 5%.
Bought a bunch when it was $15 a share and hung on…through the Apple is dead bullshit, and more…
Now..would one of please park my Bentley?
Apple is reaching the financial geniuses golden rule of “What goes up, must come down.” I think there is some connection between share prices and market gravity. So it’s high time to sell Apple. Actually, every day there is some financial genius somewhere crying out, “Sell Apple today because it absolutely can’t go any higher tomorrow.” Does anyone know if Apple has breached the law of large numbers yet?
How sweet it is.
Why is Goople even at 600 in the first place?
AAPL now has a market cap that is greater than the combined market caps of MSFT, Google, Sony, Nokia, Research In Motion and Motorola Mobility.