Today in Nasdaq trading, shares of Apple Inc. (AAPL) rose $0.62, or 0.49%, to hit a new all-time closing high of $127.08. Apple’s previous all-time closing high was $126.48 set on February 12, 2015.
Also during trading today, AAPL set a new all-time intraday high of $127.28.
Apple’s 52-week low stands at $73.05.
Apple, the world’s most valuable company, currently has a market value of $740.21 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) – $740.21B
2. Exxon Mobil (XOM) – $392.25B
3. Google (GOOG) – $373.67B
4. Microsoft (MSFT) – $359.90B
5. Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A) – $356.09B
Selected companies’ current market values:
• Walmart (WMT) – $276.58B
• Facebook (FB) – $212.00B
• Amazon (AMZN) – $177.32B
• Disney (DIS) – $177.04B
• Intel (INTC) – $163.86B
• IBM (IBM) – $158.96B
• Cisco (CSCO) – $150.59B
• Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) – $70.72B
• Yahoo! (YHOO) – $42.76B
• Adobe (ADBE) – $38.13B
• Twitter (TWTR) – $30.52B
• Nokia (NOK) – $29.26B
• Sony (SNE) – $29.86B
• ARM Holdings (ARMH) – $23.37B
• Sirius XM (SIRI) – $21.38B
• BlackBerry (BBRY) – $5.27B
• Pandora (P) – $3.22B
• Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) – $2.42B
• RealNetworks (RNWK) – $253.80M
AAPL quote via NASDAQ here.
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