Shares of Apple Inc. today rose $3.26, or 1.34%, on lighter-than-average volume of 13.51 million shares to set a new all-time closing high of $245.69.
Apple’s previous closing high was $242.43 set yesterday. Apple’s all-time high (intraday) stands at $245.81, set during trading today. Apple’s 52-week low is $115.76.
At market close, Apple’s market value stands at $222.79 billion.
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) – $323.93B
2. Microsoft (MSFT) – $270.31B
3. Apple (AAPL) – $222.79B
4. Wal-Mart (WMT) – $205.39B
5. Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA) – $200.00B
Selected companies’ current market values:
• Google (GOOG) – $187.29B
• IBM (IBM) – $170.49B
• Cisco (CSCO) – $153.91B
• Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) – $127.85B
• Intel (INTC) – $129.92B
• Disney (DIS) – $70.21B
• Amazon (AMZN) – $64.14B
• Nokia (NOK) – $57.37B
• Research In Motion (RIMM) – $41.11B
• Sony (SNE) – $37.13B
• Dell (DELL) – $32.42B
• Yahoo! (YHOO) – $25.73B
• Adobe (ADBE) – $18.44B
• Motorola (MOT) – $17.74B
• Beleaguered Palm (PALM) – $897.78M
• RealNetworks (RNWK) – $608.13M
AAPL quote via NASDAQ here.
Good gain today, but MSFT was up about the same and the overall Nasdaq was up more (in percentage). But Apple has “good news” events stacked up at least through June.
Up 3.14, hey that’s apple pie
And poor RIM.
http://247wallst.com/2010/04/14/hot-smart-phone-space-to-cool-off-rim/
These guys project that their stock price will soon be half of what it is day … which is half of what it was 2 years ago.
To be fair to RIM, Doug McIntyre who wrote that 24/7WallSt article is a nutter. He’s always panning Apple, with nonsensical reasons, so I can’t imagine that he has a well-reasoned argument against RIM.
Damn it, MS keeps pulling away even though it is truly beleaguered!
“What would I do? I’d shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders”
– Michael Dell, October 1997
DELL, $16.56, mkt cap $32.42B
Must …catch…Microsoft….
The reason MS is up is because of those lame-ass sidekick clones they just released. It’s giving MS stock a bit of ‘buzz’ right now.
As soon as people realize that that crap isn’t gonna sell (well, maybe it will sell about as well as the Zune), the stock price will settle back down.
Apple will meet and surpass MS market cap. Don’t worry.