Shares of Apple Inc. today rose $1.82, or 0.82%, on volume of 20,428,109 shares to set a new all-time closing high of $224.84.
Apple’s previous closing high was $223.02 set yesterday, March 9, 2010. Apple’s all-time high (intraday) stands at $225.48, set during trading today. Apple’s 52-week low was $84.36, set on March 10, 2009.
At market close, Apple’s market value stands at $203.88 billion since financial sites all use the latest published share count for Apple: 906.8 million shares outstanding as of January 15. However, Apple’s actual diluted share count, as per its latest 10-Q, was 919.783 million shares, which means that the company actually has a market cap of $206.80 billion. For the lists below, we’ll use what the financial sites use.
Apple went public on December 12, 1980 and closed with a market cap of $1.431 billion. Apple’s all-time low market value was $630.9 million on July 8, 1982.
The top five U.S. publicly-traded companies:
1. Exxon Mobil (XOM) – $317.36B
2. Microsoft (MSFT) – $254.08B
3. Wal-Mart (WMT) – $204.06B
4. Apple (AAPL) – $203.88B
5. Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA) – $203.29B
Selected companies’ current market values:
• Google (GOOG) – $183.30B
• IBM (IBM) – $163.18B
• Cisco (CSCO) – $148.13B
• Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) – $122.10B
• Intel (INTC) – $117.05B
• Disney (DIS) – $64.64B
• Amazon (AMZN) – $58.02B
• Nokia (NOK) – $53.99B
• Research In Motion (RIMM) – $41.81B
• Sony (SNE) – $37.78B
• Dell (DELL) – $28.00B
• Yahoo! (YHOO) – $23.51B
• Adobe (ADBE) – $18.42B
• Motorola (MOT) – $16.44B
• Palm (PALM) – $956.96M
• RealNetworks (RNWK) – $717.36M
AAPL quote via NASDAQ here.
Bye bye wal-mart
Lovely keep heading upwards
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CHA -CHING!!!!!
The cream rises, given enough time. Apple crossing Wal*Mart represents a cultural shift.
What is so cool about Apple, among many things, is that of the folks in the rankings, they actually make a product. A real product — with substance. Exxon pumps decay out of the ground. Microsoft is decay. Wal-mart sells nothing they designed or made. BH makes its money off of money manipulation – they make nothing. Even though the product is made off-shore, Apple actually sells something tangible – just like the big companies of old.
http://www.experienceproject.com/question-answer/Would-You-Trust-A-Man-Whose-Eyes-Were-Too-Close-Together/24293
See Michael Dell.
Soon it will be just Microsoft and Exxon left. And the day of reckoning is upon us.
Is this really going to keep being news item every day? Apple is doing well, we get it. You don’t need to make a news article about it every time it reaches a new high.
Guy
Wrong! We need to hear it. Ben at $70 and didn’t like it.
@guy:
You just don’t get it do you? MDN is chronicleing the exact day and time that Apple’s market value exceeds Micro$oft’s over the next few weeks (days?) as the iPad gets ready to launch. Sweet revenge!
A lovely chart is on Seeking Alpha. It shows M$ at 40% of their market cap from a decade ago and Apple “surging past”. he article says “it’s when, not if”… YeeHaw!
Forgot to mention: AAPL’s market cap is nearly5.4 times DELL’s. Poor Mikey; karma’s a bite…
I told ya!
We’re coming after you, you’re in our sights.
This may have been aimed at Michael Dell in the first instance.
But Steve Ballmer needs to be bitch-slapped.
@Hm
Apple is 7.28 times larger than Dell.
Apple 203.88 B$
Dell 28.00 B$
Apple passed Dell on January 13, 2006.
Please show these figures to whomever says Apple needs to enter the Netbook Market.
@ TimD
Correct you are…
I just hope Jobs let’s them make it . . .
@Amazin1
You’re right. Apple is innovating – the rest are imitating.
Hmm. scary situation tonight…. leave my iPhone on my table at a bar for 3 minutes. Come back and it’s gone. Thinking someone nabbed it. only to find the bussers found the phone and put it in the safe.
Didn’t panic, but was still trying to work out how to explain to the missus that I needed a new phone.
BTW the manager was supercool. Wanted to help. We tracked the phone via “find my phone” using dotmac on my friends iPhone. Knew it was still in the building and got it back within 5 mins.
That’s tech for you – scary shit.