Apple’s previous closing high was $239.54 set yesterday. Apple’s all-time high (intraday) stands at $241.92, set during trading today. Apple’s 52-week low is $114.19.
At market close, Apple’s market value stands at $218.17 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 $221.30 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) – $317.93B
2. Microsoft (MSFT) – $257.41B
3. Apple (AAPL) – $218.17B
4. Wal-Mart (WMT) – $207.80B
5. Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA) – $197.60B
Selected companies’ current market values:
• Google (GOOG) – $179.19B
• IBM (IBM) – $166.90B
• Cisco (CSCO) – $150.81B
• Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) – $124.97B
• Intel (INTC) – $124.01B
• Disney (DIS) – $68.50B
• Amazon (AMZN) – $59.96B
• Nokia (NOK) – $57.44B
• Research In Motion (RIMM) – $38.92B
• Sony (SNE) – $37.00B
• Dell (DELL) – $30.72B
• Yahoo! (YHOO) – $23.62B
• Adobe (ADBE) – $18.38B
• Motorola (MOT) – $16.72B
• Beleaguered Palm (PALM) – $779.40M
• RealNetworks (RNWK) – $625.69M
AAPL quote via NASDAQ here.
Tommy
We don’t need to know what you ask your girlfriend to do.
If it doesn’t happen in the next few months it will happen when Apple announces hooking up with Verison I predict.
For those of us who kept the faith through the ugly beige boxes, and our Steve-less John Scully era, these times are especially sweet.