Apple shares hit new all-time closing high

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TiVo Premiere - Free ShippingShares of Apple Inc. today rose $2.52, or 1.07%, on slightly heavier than average volume of 24,310,828 shares to set a new all-time closing high of $238.49.

Apple’s previous closing high was $235.97 set on April 1, 2010. Apple’s all-time high (intraday) stands at $238.73, set during trading on April 1, 2010. Apple’s 52-week low is $109.78.

At market close, Apple’s market value stands at $216.26 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 $219.36 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) – $321.94B
2. Microsoft (MSFT) – $256.71B
3. Apple (AAPL) – $216.26B
4. Wal-Mart (WMT) – $208.59B
5. Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA) – $200.73B

Selected companies’ current market values:
• Google (GOOG) – $181.57B
• IBM (IBM) – $168.03B
• Cisco (CSCO) – $149.84B
• Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) – $126.33B
• Intel (INTC) – $124.79B
• Disney (DIS) – $68.31B
• Amazon (AMZN) – $58.45B
• Nokia (NOK) – $58.03B
• Research In Motion (RIMM) – $37.64B
• Sony (SNE) – $38.71B
• Dell (DELL) – $29.76B
• Yahoo! (YHOO) – $23.12B
• Adobe (ADBE) – $18.86B
• Motorola (MOT) – $16.56B
• RealNetworks (RNWK) – $664.88M
• Beleaguered Palm (PALM) – $657.93M

AAPL quote via NASDAQ here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Scopie” for the heads up about the intraday high.]

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  13. The rest of the quarter, the rest of the year: iPhone OS4, New iPad Brain and apps, New iPhone models, New Macbook Pros, New iAds Intro,Huge iPad sales, Back to school iPad special orders, can anyone ask for a better yearly forecast going into the Xmas season?

    Can anyone think of any surprises missing from this list?

    Apple sets the bar. A blowout quarter, a blowout year, record all time highs and the entire computing Industry reinvented – Way to go Apple

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  15. Actually < 37 Billion

    The two stocks are probably within two or three weeks (a decent run-up to the next set of quarterly results) of being within a 3% swing of each other, given that Apple is now worth 84.24% of MSFT’s market cap.

    I wouldn’t want to be a chair in Washington State for love nor money at any point in the next few months.

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  19. @ deepdish

    > Amazing how low Palm is. Not even a billion.

    Apple was even lower than Palm for market cap, not adjusting for inflation. And that wasn’t in 1998, when it dipped below $4 a share (adjusted for splits). Quite a run from that pre-Jobs-return low to the current $200 billion plus. And more than $40 billion of that current market cap is cash equivalents.

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