Apple hits landmark $1 trillion valuation

Apple’s share price just hit the magic number of $207.05 per share making Apple the first U.S. publicly-traded company to hit a landmark $1 trillion valuation.

On November 5, 2007, A shares of PetroChina on the first day of trading after its IPO on Shanghai Stock Exchange skyrocketed from the IPO price of 16.7 RMB to 43.96 RMB by the close (the opening price was even 48.6 RMB). That briefly gave PetroChina a market capitalization of about $1 trillion.

Market capitalization (market cap) is the market value of a publicly traded company’s outstanding shares. Market capitalization is equal to the share price multiplied by the number of shares outstanding. Apple currently has 4,829,926,000 shares outstanding.

While we expect it to oscillate back and forth across the trillion-dollar line for a while, on August 2, 2018, Apple Inc.’s market value first hit US$1 trillion!

 
Apple’s stock has risen more than 50,000% since it first listed in 1980. That compares with a (mere) 2,000% rise for the S&P 500 in the same period. — BBC News, August 2, 2018

Current AAPL quote here here.

MacDailyNews Take: The greatest company on earth is still wildly undervalued! The march to $2 trillion has begun!

Trillion, schmillion. Over time, Apple will go much higher than that. The company is currently horribly undervalued. – MacDailyNews, March 1, 2018

The next ten years are going to be absolutely amazing for Apple. The company has just started to really get going! — MacDailyNews, August 2, 2017

Congratulations, Apple Inc.!

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