Today in Nasdaq trading, shares of Apple Inc. (AAPL) rose $1.60, or 1.28%, to hit a new all-time closing high of $126.48. Apple’s previous all-time closing high was $124.88 set on February 11, 2015.
Also during trading today, AAPL set a new all-time intraday high of $127.48.
Apple’s 52-week low stands at $73.05.
Apple, the world’s most valuable company, currently has a market value of $736.42 billion. Apple is the first U.S. company to close above the $700 billion mark. The prior record had been held by Microsoft set on December 30, 1999 with a market capitalization of $618.9 billion. Adjusting for inflation to 2015, Microsoft’s market capitalization would be at $876 billion. At that time, MSFT’s P/E stood at 77x. AAPL’s P/E today stands at only 10x.
The top five U.S. publicly-traded companies, based on market value:
1. Apple (AAPL) – $736.42B
2. Exxon Mobil (XOM) – $388.05B
3. Google (GOOG) – $369.54B
4. Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A) – $359.14B
5. Microsoft (MSFT) – $353.42B
Selected companies’ current market values:
• Walmart (WMT) – $276.8B
• Facebook (FB) – $213.31B
• Amazon (AMZN) – $175.14B
• Disney (DIS) – $176.04B
• Intel (INTC) – $162.58B
• IBM (IBM) – $157.09B
• Cisco (CSCO) – $150.44B
• Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) – $70.37B
• Yahoo! (YHOO) – $42.28B
• Adobe (ADBE) – $37.17B
• Twitter (TWTR) – $30.18B
• Nokia (NOK) – $29.08B
• Sony (SNE) – $29.65B
• ARM Holdings (ARMH) – $23.61B
• Sirius XM (SIRI) – $21.77B
• BlackBerry (BBRY) – $5.15B
• Pandora (P) – $3.12B
• Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) – $2.38B
• RealNetworks (RNWK) – $254.52M
AAPL quote via NASDAQ here.
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