Apple Inc. market value hits $100 billion

In intraday NASDAQ trading today, Apple Inc. hit $100 billion in market value for the first time in company history.

Apple traded as high as $116.06 per share today, with 861,875,000 shares outstanding, to hit a market value of $100,029,212,500.

Apple gave bakc some of the earlier gains and is currently trading at $115.10, up $0.75, or 0.66% with a market value of $99,201,812,500.

To put this into perspective, some other market values of selected companies include:
• Microsoft: $301,505,348,060
• Intel: $126,758,660,000
• HP: $121,245,725,547
• Dell: $59,334,557,680
• Sony: $57,039,927,560

AAPL quote via NASDAQ here.