Shares of Apple Computer, Inc. rose $1.56, or %2.40%, today to hit a new all-time high of $66.52 on volume of 19.266,430 in NASDAQ trading today.
In after-hours action, Apple shares are up $0.25, or 0.38%, to $66.77.
Apple’s previous all-time high was $65.88 set on 11/17/2005. Apple’s 52 Week Low was $28.95 set on 11/22/2004.
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I love this company!!
apologies to Balmie
Booooo Boooooo
I should have bought back when it was $14
Here’s to earnings that are not short LIVED. Though being at an(other) all-time high is great for Apple, it’s the support the stock has – a dominant market position, multiple vendors in all verticals in long term contracts, multiple sales channels, and a proven executive team – that reduce the riskiness associate with owning a technology stock blazing new trails in an unproven market segment.
It is just a consequence of love, Mr Jobs motive is based on love, with that foundation it cannot help but prosper
The real “R” did.
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Consequence denotes something negative. It’s better to say “product of love.”
At the current rate of progress, Apple’s market cap will exceed that of Oracle at some point in the next six to eight weeks.
After that, Apple will probably be worth more than Dell sometime during April 2006, and Hewlett-Packard will probably be overtaken sometime around August/September – I do hope that we all resist the urge to e-mail Dell to suggest that they close down the company and return the funds to the shareholders because that would be childish.
The “real” R likes pie.
BooooooooooooooYahhhhhhhh!
MW=wall, as in wall street loves AAPL
No, R, you should have gotten a job at Apple when its share price was $7, and saved all your options.
I’m crying cause I bought at $14, pre-split, sold at $20. Then I bought at $22, pre-split, and sold at $28. I haven’t bought since, and I’m gnashing my teeth. Oh well. C’est la vie. I’m happy someone else made some money. Of course, I made some money too, but I could have made a whole lot more!
MCFFR said: “…I do hope that we all resist the urge to e-mail Dell to suggest that they close down the company and return the funds to the shareholders because that would be childish.
I for one intend to do just that. Goo, goo, ga ga.
Now I don’t feel so bad about buying my latest Powerbook.
Bought AAPL in 1998 at split adjusted $6.61/share. Up 906.35% as of today. Ahhhhhhh…..
MDN: Headline should read: Apple Computer shares hit new all-time high… again
Eric24601 – No, “consequence” does not necessarily denote something negative; simply means the effect/result of a condition/action.
KenC – There’s still time to make money with AAPL. It’ll keep on growing for at least the next two years.
Veronica – Right you are!
“: MCCFR
Nov 22, 05 – 05:56 pm
At the current rate of progress, Apple’s market cap will exceed that of Oracle at some point in the next six to eight weeks.
After that, Apple will probably be worth more than Dell sometime during April 2006, and Hewlett-Packard will probably be overtaken sometime around August/September”
From winmacguy
I did a weee bit of speculation just recently and worked out that based on Apple’s rising share value and doing a 2 for 1 share split each year- from their current valuation of approx $50 Billion US at $60+ per share, the first share split in January would put them at approx $120 Billion US and another share split in January of 2007 with another $60+ per share would put them slightly behind or on a par with Microsoft who are a $285 Billion US corporation.
Please note that my speculation is in not based on any accurate formulars or based on any inside company knowledge.
Winmacguy:
Stock splits do not change the valuation … the number of shares increases but the value of each share decreases.
When are people going to realize that splits don’t change market caps (by a significant amount). Stock holders at the time of the split (assuming a 2 for 1 split) get twice the number of shares of stocks at half the face value.. it’s only the market’s pre and post reaction to the split annoucments (mostly illogical and unpredictiable) that adjusts the the stock price and indirectly the capitalization.
sorry derrick..
you beat me to it
Bought at $7.50 (adjusted for splits) and still holdong on at $66 and change. Will pay of my mortgage soon. Keep doing it wrong, Microsoft….please.
Yes I am aware that stock splits don’t give you greater value in your shares they give you x amount of shares for each share you own which effectively halves or divides the share value by the amount it is split. What I meant in my speculation was that after the shares split in January valued @ say $80US a share and become twice as many (currently 1.8 Billion shares is my understanding) or 3.6 Billion shares @ $40 per share and then increase in share value over the course of the year to $80US a share and repeat share split(giving 7.2 Billion shares @ $40US a share), by my fuzzy speculation that will put Apple pretty close to Microsoft in market value. I would need to be able to come up with an advanced mathematical equation to figure that out which is WAY beyond my mathematical ability (I never got my head around algebra). I am actaully guessing that it will take about 4 years for Apple to equal Microsoft in market value since Microsoft is worth about $285 US Billion and only increasing in value by approx 9% per annum vs Apple’s 45% per annum.
I bought at pre-splits long ago $5.5 and sold a month later at 3.5. Those 10,000 shares would have multiplied and multiplied by now. Geesh.
Still… I’m happy to see others make money off of Apple.
I do currently own a few small share parcels in managed funds and a few local companies and have owned/traded shares since 1985 but lost a lot of my initial shares in the crash of ’87 which is refered to as Black Tuesday in NZ since we are a day ahead of the US.
@ Winmacguy:
I suspect that I’m one of the few “amateur observers” who actually keeps an accurate weekly record of the market caps of the companies I mentioned, which means that I know that Dell’s market cap is declining almost at the same rate that Apple’s is increasing (although Dell’s appears to have bottomed out for now).
Equallly, I’ve spotted that whilst HP’s value has climbed by well over 50% since September 04, it is no match for AAPL’s meteoric near 100% rise during 2005 and – with more iPod growth likely in calendar 2006 and new Windows-capable Intel-based Macintosh systems due in 2006 – it is unlikely to be able match Apple in the near future.
I’ll tell you what, before we get sniffy, let’s just see how things work out and you can call me an idiot in twelve months time…
No sniffy comments required from this end MCCFR. My comments actually relate to comments made by a poster recently over at osnews.com who spelled it out in a more informed manor than I can after a comment was made by another poster that at Apple’s current rate of market value and yearly percentage increase (not taking previously mentioned share splits etc into account) that Apple would surpass Microsoft in 16 years. One of the posters mentioned each companies value including Dell. I then sumarised that with Apple’s increasing value and therefore resulting share splits, Apple could theoretically pass Microsoft in about 3 1/2 to 4 years.
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Give it 1 year and see how they are going.
@ Winmacguy:
Then I apologize for my over-defensive response.
$85 billion is a realistic appraisal of what Apple should be worth in around 12 months, based on around 30 times profits (I’m currently thinking around $2.1 billion or some 12% of sales, which I’m theorizing will be around $17.5 billion to the end of FY2006) plus the value of the balance sheet (as it will probably be) plus some future speculation.
Margins will be improved by an increasing reliance on flash technology – which Apple appears to buying forward on – which a) is more reliable in warranty terms, b) more capable of being shipped in vast quantities (compare the volumetrics of an iPod mini pack to an iPod nano – the latter is lighter and a heck of a lot smaller) and c) more likely to attract a “miniaturization” price premium that Apple can exploit.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see a 6GB nano at some point in the next six months with the pricing for Holiday Season 2006 being $149/$174/$199 for the 2GB/4GB/6GB units respectively.
Mac CPUs will also benefit at the low-end from the “Intel-isation” process – if Apple can deliver iBooks and iMacs capable of running Windows either in a window or as dual-boot, we’re going to see a lot of people switching and existing Mac owners (second generation iMacs and owners of older iBooks) upgrading which will drive unit growth, whilst there also have to be some cost benefits to the move from Apple’s perspective. Also, I would expect this whole thing to muddy the education market so I’d look for Apple to score some major wins in that field, albeit at low margins.
Which means those lucky enough to have shares – which excludes me – are likely to be looking as another share split, or the price will be around the $100 mark.