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
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