Apple’s previous closing high was $240.60 set yesterday. Apple’s all-time high (intraday) stands at $241.92, set during trading yesterday. Apple’s 52-week low is $115.76.
At market close, Apple’s market value stands at $219.25 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 $222.39 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) – $324.63B
2. Microsoft (MSFT) – $266.10B
3. Apple (AAPL) – $219.25B
4. Wal-Mart (WMT) – $207.01B
5. Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA) – $199.66B
Selected companies’ current market values:
• Google (GOOG) – $180.05B
• IBM (IBM) – $167.26B
• Cisco (CSCO) – $152.30B
• Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) – $126.33B
• Intel (INTC) – $124.57B
• Disney (DIS) – $70.25B
• Amazon (AMZN) – $62.26B
• Nokia (NOK) – $55.66B
• Research In Motion (RIMM) – $39.00B
• Sony (SNE) – $36.94B
• Dell (DELL) – $30.99B
• Yahoo! (YHOO) – $24.53B
• Adobe (ADBE) – $18.59B
• Motorola (MOT) – $17.09B
• Beleaguered Palm (PALM) – $870.78M
• RealNetworks (RNWK) – $601.37M
AAPL quote via NASDAQ here.
MS is pulling away — making gap bigger.
Solid
Umm, today’s intra-day high was actually another record: $242.13 (1,420 shares at 16:10; and 150 shares traded at $242.00 at 07:02).
Beleaguered Palm – never gets old.
I like these steady 0.5% to 1.0% increases. I guess the next big news will be the report for last quarter, unless some new MacBooks and/of Mac Pros are released early next week. Either way, things look very positive, in terms of upcoming “Apple news.”
i think the previous closing high was two days ago, yesterday i think the stock went down about 64¢.
Where are the ANALyst when you need them? those ANALyst that were saying that Steve Jobs lost a Billion when apple’s shares fell during the economic crisis? any one? where are those who are wiiling to give advise to Steve Jobs on how he must sell his apple’s shares, or want to comvice him to sell netbooks?
BTW, Laura? where are you?
I expected the iAd announcement to drive the stock somewhat higher today. As usual, it takes Wall Street a while to calculate the implications.
@ Amazin1, Microsoft’s market cap keeps bouncing around, Apple’s is bouncing in only one direction. Up.
Wonder what Susan Goldman’s investors are doing right about now?
Correction… Laura Goldman
Apple will push past M$ once revenue from iAds starts flowing in.
@ Amazin1
MS is pulling away — making gap bigger.
On what time frame??
Apple’s $219 B market value is 82% of MSFT’s $266 B.
It ended 2009 at $171 B, or 64% of MSFT’s $267 B.
It ended 2008 at $77 B, or 45% of MSFT’s $170 B.
Or shall we keep going back, say, to 2002, which ended with Apple at $13 B, just 3% of MSFT’s then 453 B ?
Microsoft’s trajectory is not promising.
One of my favorite things about MDN is how neither MDN or the regular posters ever forget the past articles/quotes by people… Laura Goldman, Give the money back to the shareholders, etc., etc..
Was just looking at another MDN article staring the brilliant Laura Goldman: http://www.macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/16312/
Regarding selling AAPL she says “It was one of the worst stock recommendations of my career”.
One of the worst? So she’s made recommendations that bad, and possibly even worse in the past??
MDN Word: People
Laura Goldman worked for M. Lynch and UBS W. She must be a real expert… and probably got lots of (tax?) money for her advice…
Steve Jobs doen’t forget either