Apple’s previous all-time closing high was $274.16 set on June 18, 2010. Apple’s all-time high (intraday) stands at $279.01, set on June 21, 2010. Apple’s 52-week low is $177.88.
At market close, Apple’s market value stands at $252.66 billion.
The top five U.S. publicly-traded companies, based on full market values, are:
1. Exxon Mobil (XOM) – $310.45B
2. Apple (AAPL) – $252.66B
3. Microsoft (MSFT) – $219.19B
4. Berkshire-Hathaway (BRKA) – 206.70B
4. Wal-Mart (WMT) – $193.28B
Selected companies’ current market values:
• IBM (IBM) – $163.55B
• Google (GOOG) – $153.32B
• Cisco (CSCO) – $125.25B
• Intel (INTC) – $105.62B
• Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) – $91.50B
• Amazon (AMZN) – $66.34B
• Disney (DIS) – $65.35B
• Nokia (NOK) – $37.50B
• Sony (SNE) – $31.08B
• Research In Motion (RIMM) – $25.69B
• Dell (DELL) – $24.15B
• Motorola (MOT) – $19.63B
• Yahoo! (YHOO) – $19.13B
• Adobe (ADBE) – $17.25B
• Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) – $4.15B
• RealNetworks (RNWK) – $391.86M
AAPL quote via NASDAQ here.
As of about 30 seconds ago, it’s up another $1.15 after hours.
Great news. It’s been too long since I’ve seen that headline.
Fun to see this again. I’m glad I picked up more shares in early May.
Go Apple, Go! This is really good new for us.
up, up and away!
Man, what’s happening?! As a stock holder I’m thrilled but is it just all of the positive news lately and upbeat future earnings and sales projections? I’m so used to people NOT believing and constantly underestimating Apple. Maybe they’ve finally learned their lesson? Hope so.
MSFT disappears in the wake like sewage spilt from a garbage scow.
Flight to quality.
I think Real Networks can be dropped from the list.
coincidentally (or not?) today 9/16 is the 13 yr anniversary of Steve Jobs’ return to Apple (and 25 yrs to the day when he first left)
http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2010/09/0916jobs-out-in-apple/
The epic Time magazine cover is coming soon. Will Steve be on the big screen this time looking down at Bill?
I miss the days when Apple were the ‘underdogs’. It’s like supporting your local band and then they become too famous and it lost the ‘cool’ factor.
Apple is almost equal in market cap to the combined total of IBM and HP.
The Apple naysayers on the street are caught in a short squeeze as many had bet Apple would not break past $270. Now they are having to buy Apple shares to cover their shorts, which is driving the stock higher faster than in a normal market. Let the price settle and then buy.
I put a hold on my automatic investment in Apple after it started back up above $240 and am parking my investment $ in a money market account until the shorts have cleared. I’m a log term hold on Apple, but as a constant dollar investor don’t want to overpay.
Apple is now within 25% of Exxon-Mobile. In other words, if XOM remains stagnant, AAPL needs to grow by about 25% and it will exceed XOM’s market cap.
Sometime in late February, AAPL was just about in the same position against MSFT. It needed to grow some 25% (with MSFT remaining flat) to eclipse it. It took three months for that to happen.
We are now entering the holiday quarter of the year. Apple continues to fire on all cylinders, while US economy continues to be ambivalent, and XOM seems to continue its running in place.
How many here would like to wager that Apple will be the most valuable company in the world before this year ends?
$277.70 as I type this. I feel so much better now than i did back on August 24th. I was down a lot of money then. Now I’ve made enough to pay for all of the Apple toys I’ve recently purchased.
YEAH. whoop whoop whoop! go go go!!! :p
“We are in the $ Money!”
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Go Apple go Up!!! Higher baby!!!!!
401k = Yes! Baby.
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Sweet
Buy AAPL
$301 soon!
2011 = $401!!!!!!!!!
I hear my bank account going “Ca-Ching!” : )
Nearly 12 times the value of Dell. I bet Dell isn’t even on Steve’s radar anymore. Texas, don’t mess with Karma!
Today’s jump is a short squeeze, so don’t think Apple is in a go-go cycle. Our nation, Apple’s best market, is in a deep financial hole and until after the election cycle will be kinda on hold. That’s not finger pointing or political- the market and consumers won’t make big changes in behavior until they know what kind of policy is coming out of D.C.
November is going to be a very important election regardless of your politics and all that can vote should. Just vote based on knowledge and facts, not punditry and spin from anyone.
…”Just vote based on knowledge and facts, not punditry and spin from anyone.”
Judging by political diarrhoea that frequently soils MDN pages, there is absolutely no chance of that happening anytime soon…
Apple is one oil spill away from topping Exxon Mobile.
When Apple passed Microsoft in market cap, I expected the positions to swap a few times before Apple finally took the lead… it didn’t happen, Apple has just streaked ahead.
Man, I’d hate to be the MSFT team having to front up at the annual meeting to try to explain their 10 year desert-flat stock price, compared to the relentless rise and rise of AAPL…
84 Mac Guy, that’s actually very funny.
I think it’s safe to say that Apple has reached critical mass, passed the tipping point, or however that might be expressed. Maybe it’s even reached escape velocity from the recession. It’s the ever-expanding Apple universe!
I didn’t see anyone suggesting hypotheses last week when AAPL was taking a nosedive as to the whys and the wherefores. What’s going on this week is a correction. Wouldn’t surprise me a bit to see the price fall tomorrow. I’m not an analyst mind you, but the money yowled make buying in the trough and selling on the peak is staggering.
Apple is at the top of it’s recent range and a short squeeze is going on. Literally millions of shorts have to cover their bets that Apple wouldn’t punch above $270, so now they have to buy a stock
they do not want. This is great if
you are looking to cash out of
Apple, I made my last purchase of
stock at about 240 a couple of
weeks ago. However, after the run up, it will probably drop back some. Then I will buy some more.
Recently I got audited by IRS and one of the things they specifically questioned was the ballooning value of my IRA (which is all AAPL, bought pre-iTunes). Though they denied it, I think that’s what flagged me.
It was weird, they were skeptical like I was dealing coke or something.
One of the top three reasons I recently quit my job was so I could roll my 401k over to E*trade and put it all on AAPL baby!
(not counting the 14% put into an emerging markets infrastructure mutual fund for safety!)
Apple always made good product, and i am totally trust on apple.
http://leanspaacai.org
Exxon Mobil seems almost out of reach for Apple. Apple is going to have to sell about 12 million iPads before year’s end to pump up Apple’s stock in the right direction. Right now the stock seems to be creeping up ever so slowly and it might reach $300 by the end of the year if the economy doesn’t go into a tailspin again.