Apple shares hit new all-time intraday, closing highs

Apple Online StoreShares of Apple Inc. today rose $4.25, or 1.88%, on average volume of 22,857,404 shares to set a new all-time closing high of $230.90.

Apple’s previous closing high was $229.37 set on March 24, 2010. Apple’s all-time high (intraday) stands at $231.95, set during trading today. Apple’s 52-week low was $102.61, set on March 26, 2009.

At market close, Apple’s market value stands at $209.31 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 $212.38 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) – $314.15B
2. Microsoft (MSFT) – $260.13B
3. Wal-Mart (WMT) – $211.22B
4. Apple (AAPL) – $209.31B
5. Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA) – $201.16B

Selected companies’ current market values:
• Google (GOOG) – $178.92B
• IBM (IBM) – $167.91B
• Cisco (CSCO) – $151.55B
• Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) – $125.27B
• Intel (INTC) – $122.85B
• Disney (DIS) – $68.48B
• Amazon (AMZN) – $60.04B
• Nokia (NOK) – $57.33B
• Research In Motion (RIMM) – $41.83B
• Sony (SNE) – $38.35B
• Dell (DELL) – $29.34B
• Yahoo! (YHOO) – $23.16B
• Adobe (ADBE) – $18.61B
• Motorola (MOT) – $16.58B
• Beleaguered Palm (PALM) – $656.25M
• RealNetworks (RNWK) – $652.72M

AAPL quote via NASDAQ here.

23 Comments

  1. “Another day like today and Apple is larger than Wal-Mart!
    Is there really enough room for it to continue to grow?”

    Room for Walmart to grow? Not much.
    Room for Apple to grow? TONS! That’s the beauty of it.

  2. Something tells me I’m going to get sick of all the articles titled ‘Apple shares hit new all-time intraday, closing highs” that I’ll be seeing over the next six months or so.

  3. Apple seems to have their annual PR “good news” cycle very well-tuned for 2010. There does not seem to be a “slow” month. First, it was smashing expectations in January for the previous quarter, thanks in part to using the new accounting rules for iPhone plus excellent Mac sales. Then, it’s all the current fanfare from introducing and releasing iPad. Then, it’s time once again for iPhone and iPhone OS upgrade speculation in May and June. Then, it’s whatever comes out of WWDC and introduction of new Macs just before back-to-school time. Then, it’s time for new iPods and some other new Macs, to gear up for the holiday quarter.

    Rinse and repeat. The only question is, what will be the “iPad” for 2011?

    Does any company play the popular and tech media as well as Apple? I don’t think so…

  4. Where’s the SIDAGTMBTTS story?

    By my calculations (using Spotlight):

    Apple = 7.13 x Dell

    I saw the “Septuple” story a week or so ago but it was a bit premature.

  5. @Predrag
    “Is there really enough room for it to continue to grow?”

    That’s the exciting part there’s tonnes of room for Apple to grow!

    With 10 to 20% of the computer market in North America (probably a lot less in the rest of the world?), Apple has pretty much the entire world’s population to expand into.
    And as long-time Apple users know, even when one already owns Apple products, one continues to purchase the upgrades and new products.

    So, Apple has not yet even begun to grow!

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