Shares of Apple Inc. today rose $0.66, or 0.29%, on lighter than average volume of 14,433,361 shares to set a new all-time closing high of $225.50.
Apple’s previous closing high was $224.84 set yesterday, March 10, 2010. Apple’s all-time high (intraday) stands at $225.50, set during trading today. Apple’s 52-week low was $89.58, set on March 11, 2009.
At market close, Apple’s market value stands at $204.48 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 $207.41 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) – $255.92B
3. Wal-Mart (WMT) – $205.36B
4. Apple (AAPL) – $204.48B
5. Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA) – $203.62B
Selected companies’ current market values:
• Google (GOOG) – $184.79B
• IBM (IBM) – $165.75B
• Cisco (CSCO) – $148.69B
• Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) – $122.66B
• Intel (INTC) – $117.39B
• Disney (DIS) – $65.58B
• Amazon (AMZN) – $59.38B
• Nokia (NOK) – $53.73B
• Research In Motion (RIMM) – $42.31B
• Sony (SNE) – $38.30B
• Dell (DELL) – $27.81B
• Yahoo! (YHOO) – $23.15B
• Adobe (ADBE) – $18.46B
• Motorola (MOT) – $16.26B
• Palm (PALM) – $933.49M
• RealNetworks (RNWK) – $720.06M
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AAPL moved up to within $1B of Walmart today. It’ll soon be 3rd in U.S. and just behind M$.
Powerhouse. Apple is the perfect example of what an American company should be. Driven, environmentally concious, customer and employee focused, all without any government control or support. And here they are, rising to the top.
Title correction:
Apple shares hit new all-time intraday, closing HYPE!!!
Are you telling me it’s moving closer to Exxon, Microsoft or GE?
You know, these 3 companies don’t need us to love them to make $.
On the other hand, Apple does. Therefore something is still missing.
Relying on hit profucts is no long term strategy. Perhaps they need less Jobs now.
I will never tire of this headline
it’s hard to love a company that sells dead dinosaur remains.
p.s. i am not talking about exxon!
Since the market cap is off as MDN keeps pointing out… Is the market cap off on the other companies as well?
I just calculated, Walmart value minus Apple value divided by outstanding shares and came up with $0.97.
ie if Apple shares go up 97 Cents, Apple value will equal Walmart.
Would someone check my math.
…”Relying on hit profucts is no long term strategy. “
Are you high on something???
Sometime in 2003, iPod became a hit product. Yet, a year later, Apple begun work on the iPhone. in 2007, Apple released an iPhone. It became a hit product. Yet, they begun work, and three years later, delivered another, most likely soon to become, a hit product. In the meantime, the company continued to innovate, delivering other “hit products” (MacBook Air, which other PC makers unsuccessfully tried to emulate), AppleTV (millions sold, adding several $billion to the bottom line), not to mention PPC to Intel transition, as well as multiple significant updates to the desktop OS.
So, tell me again, how is Apple relying on a single ‘hit product’??? Oh, yeah, hype, riiight…..
As all analysts that differ on everything else related to Apple have agreed, Apple is the lone technology company that has clearly defined long-term strategy, and is executing it to perfection.
@Predrag
He should rephrase it.
“Relying on monopolizing a market is a good long term strategy”
MDN, Please headline when AAPL surpasses WalMart…very few
know this and many will be surprised…ears will perk.
@ cptnkirk
the only problem with your theory is that Apple today is where WalMart was yesterday.
Apple isn’t the only one with rising share prices.
@qka
The only problem with your theory is that Apple is growing faster than Walmart!
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as of 10:45 friday Apple share is up to 226.453. Times share number, Apple is worth 205.35billion (rounded). But what did Walmart do?
I told ya.