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
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