In NASDAQ trading today, Apple Inc. (AAPL) shares today rose $5.73, or 1.24%, on average volume of 13,141,187 shares to set a new all-time closing high of $453.01.
Apple’s all-time intraday high stands at $454.45, set on January 25, 2012.
Apple’s previous all-time closing high was $447.28 set last Friday, January 27, 2012. Apple’s 52-week low is $310.50.
Apple’s market value currently stands at $422.04 billion.
The top five U.S. publicly-traded companies, based on market value:
1. Apple (AAPL) – $422.04B
2. Exxon Mobil (XOM) – $409.24B
3. Microsoft (MSFT) – $248.12B
4. IBM (IBM) – $223.14B
5. Wal-Mart (WMT) – $209.93B
Selected companies’ current market values:
• GE (GE) – $199.49B
• Google (GOOG) – $187.66B
• Intel (INTC) – $135.49B
• Cisco (CSCO) – $105.10B
• Amazon (AMZN) – $87.42B
• Disney (DIS) – $70.05B
• Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) – $55.31B
• Dell (DELL) – $30.50B
• Yahoo! (YHOO) – $19.30B
• Nokia (NOK) – $18.76B
• Sony (SNE) – $18.16B
• Adobe (ADBE) – $15.24B
• Motorola Mobility (MMI) – $11.67B
• Research In Motion (RIMM) – $8.78B
• Sirius XM (SIRI) – $7.61B
• Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) – $4.93B
• RealNetworks (RNWK) – $0.34B
AAPL quote via NASDAQ here.
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KA POW!
Nowhere to go but down from here.
Apple is seriously undervalued with a P/E ratio of 12.9 right now, Amazon is seriously overvalued at P/E = 101.23. R2 is in good company with the market which knows that Amazon has nowhere to go but up while Apple must inevitably decline. One thing we do know is that R2 is not an accountant who understands numbers, eg. sales, gross profit and net profit trends. Not to mention as yet un-penetrated major markets e.g. China, Brazil and India.
You almost wonder what would happen to Apple’s PE ratio if they bought Amazon? Would it average out? Would Apple’s PE drive Amazon’s part down to reality? Would Amazon’s PE drive Apple’s part up to reality? Who knows?
I hate to say it, but I feel you. Up $53.00 since the year started. If the stock can jump on no news, it can certainly go down on no news. Or, it can just stay flat. Look At Intel and Microsoft. They havn’t budged in ten years.
If you seriously can’t see a major difference between Apple and MS then you shouldn’t be buying stock. Intel and every Winbox maker are dependent on MS for innovation. MS has done anything in 10 years. Are you somehow surprised that their stock prices have gone nowhere?
…MS has NOT done anything…
Not surprised at all really. Im just saying trees dont grow to the sky.
No, but some become Sequoias.
Just set up a stop loss and be willing to sell if a major shake happens. Like the Eu inevitably collapses. The buy the dip. Right.
Between early 2009 (just three years ago) and now, AAPL went from below $100 to above $450. Averaging out the short-term ups and downs, it’s been a very steady climb (look at the 5-year chart).
AAPL is (probably) not going from $450 to $2000 (equivalent to $100 to $450) during the NEXT three years, but $800 should be an easy reach.
The primary near-term risk with Apple is a general financial crisis (like 2008). Apple’s large (and well-publicized) “pile of cash” should help in that type of environment.
Interesting how MSFT is growing all of a sudden after years of flat-lining.
Apple is doomed! Etc.
MS’s stock is moving up on three hopes. One is that the Kinect will somehow become a major draw to MS’s ecosystem, even though the money being made from it now are small. The second is that it’s hoped that Nokia will give a needed lift to WP7. The third is that Win8 will sell well and give them a viable tablet entry.
If any of those three doesn’t happen, the stock will tank again. Right now, it’s about where it was ten years ago, but with inflation, it’s actually lower in today’s dollars. The dividend only makes it less so.
Hope floats and shit sinks right?
With Microsoft it’s shit rises to the top while hope is a stain on Ballmer’s undershorts.
Listening to the constant chatter about the law of large numbers is infuriating . The empty talking heads completely misinterpret what the law is all about. This law is only appropriate if you completely dominate the market that a company is in. Back in the other eras Cisco and Microsoft achieved this in their respective markets. Apple is in at least five or six markets with less than twenty percent penetration. Consequently one must calculate that the asymptotic number for the law of large numbers to apply is at least twenty-five times bigger than it is now. For the law to apply to Apple their market cap will have to approach ten trillion dollars ($10,000,000,000,000). For those that believe enjoy the ride.
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Imagine that – numeral uno with $10b+ to spare and growing. I have a good feeling this time it’s going to be for good. With two mothers of all upgrades (iPad 3 and iPhone 5) coming and a wide open market in China for the take, Apple rules for years to come.
The fake journalist from C/NUT and ZDNUT along with NYT are all pissed! Their hit piece and blitz attack on Apple isn’t working so well. LOL!
Good! The lies, BS, stupidity and ignorance of the hypocritical backlash against Apple is giving me an ulcer I’m so furious!
“Boycott Apple?” Your loss, morons. Interesting how politics is so fragmented you even hate your own.
So what should Apple do with all their cash? Well they could purchase the country of Greece perhaps. (They could do this actually, but why bother. That they have that much cash is the point.)