Today in Nasdaq trading, shares of Apple Inc. (AAPL) rose $1.60, or 1.28%, to hit a new all-time closing high of $126.48. Apple’s previous all-time closing high was $124.88 set on February 11, 2015.
Also during trading today, AAPL set a new all-time intraday high of $127.48.
Apple’s 52-week low stands at $73.05.
Apple, the world’s most valuable company, currently has a market value of $736.42 billion. Apple is the first U.S. company to close above the $700 billion mark. The prior record had been held by Microsoft set on December 30, 1999 with a market capitalization of $618.9 billion. Adjusting for inflation to 2015, Microsoft’s market capitalization would be at $876 billion. At that time, MSFT’s P/E stood at 77x. AAPL’s P/E today stands at only 10x.
The top five U.S. publicly-traded companies, based on market value:
1. Apple (AAPL) – $736.42B
2. Exxon Mobil (XOM) – $388.05B
3. Google (GOOG) – $369.54B
4. Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A) – $359.14B
5. Microsoft (MSFT) – $353.42B
Selected companies’ current market values:
• Walmart (WMT) – $276.8B
• Facebook (FB) – $213.31B
• Amazon (AMZN) – $175.14B
• Disney (DIS) – $176.04B
• Intel (INTC) – $162.58B
• IBM (IBM) – $157.09B
• Cisco (CSCO) – $150.44B
• Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) – $70.37B
• Yahoo! (YHOO) – $42.28B
• Adobe (ADBE) – $37.17B
• Twitter (TWTR) – $30.18B
• Nokia (NOK) – $29.08B
• Sony (SNE) – $29.65B
• ARM Holdings (ARMH) – $23.61B
• Sirius XM (SIRI) – $21.77B
• BlackBerry (BBRY) – $5.15B
• Pandora (P) – $3.12B
• Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) – $2.38B
• RealNetworks (RNWK) – $254.52M
AAPL quote via NASDAQ here.
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And going and going and going
Imagine if AAPL were valued at a P/E of 77 rather than 10…
Market cap of nearly $5.7T.
I’d settle for at least a P/E of 17 which would at least be on par with Microsoft. However, it just doesn’t seem likely because there are no set metrics for company value and Apple will never be given a premium value as a tech company.
I’m surprised we can’t reach a P/E of 13 or 14, given obvious EGG coefficients next quarter +- BUN on either BACN OR SAMN graphs.
Yea, MDN, why don’t you post the PE next to the Market Cap on each of those companies?
Honey, I’m home!
Daddy, daddy, what’s in your pocket.
Why $10 billion dollars son.
Wow dad, Mikey next door will be so upset.
Why son? Who’s Mikey anyway?
You know, Mikey Dell, the kill who hit me in the face, in 4th grade.
That little twerp. Well son, here’s some pocket change, go put it in your little piggy bank.
Daddy, you’re so silly, you know that won’t fit.
Sorry, kill should be kid. – edit log
wow. remember, back in the good old days, what a big deal it was to pass exxon and it switched back and forth several times? and before that how we celebrated every integer multiple of dell’s value when they occurred? and now we get to celebrate the integer multiples of value over microsoft! wow.
And now we can count happily count how many of the top tech firms that Apple is worth more than combined. For example – its worth more than all three of its old nemeses combined: IBM, Intel, and Microsoft! Its also worth more than its newer internet frenemies combined: Google, Amazon, and Facebook… well, almost – just another $20B to go for this one. And of course we can tag Blackberry on to the end of any of these lists).
That wasn’t such a long time ago. I remember the thrill I got when Apple passed Microsoft in market cap value. Unbelievably, Apple left all those other companies in the dust. I would never have imagined something like this would happen. I never expected dividends, either. Now I’m waiting for Apple to double Google’s market cap. It’s very, very close to happening. As soon as Apple announces Google is no longer the default search engine for Safari, I feel certain Google’s share price will take a nice hit.
I’m breathless!
Memo to Apple: Thanks for the 2 15″ MBPs my wife and I purchased last year with long term capital gains on a the sale of few shares of AAPL stock, and thanks in advance for the Apple Watches you’re going to buy us this year.
AMD is looking ripe for a pocket change purchase… Why not lock up ARM, too?
I still like the idea of Apple obtaining a big piece of Nintendo and getting Mario and company on iOS.
Worth more than Microsoft and Google combined
appppppppppppppple is dooooooomed…………………………………..
oh wait…………
I miss “monkey boy Ballmer”………..NOT!!!!