Shares of Apple Inc. today rose $11.80, or 6.77% to close at $186.16 on extremely heavy volume of 63,557,249 shares to set a new all-time closing high.
Apple’s previous 52-week high (intraday) stood at $174.90, set on October 22, 2007. Apple’s 52-week low stands at $76.77, set onDecember 27, 2006.
At market close, Apple’s market value stands at $161.89 billion.
For reference, some selected current market values:
• Microsoft (MSFT) – $289.70B
• Google (GOOG) – $210.93B
• Cisco (CSCO) – $192.11B
• Apple (AAPL) – $161.89B
• IBM (IBM) – $158.26B
• Intel (INTC) – $156.51B
• Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) – $133.70B
• Disney (DIS) – $67.72B
• Dell (DELL) – $64.37B
• Sony (SNE) – $46.16B
• Yahoo! (YHOO) – $41.04B
• Amazon (AMZN) – $41.68B
• Adobe (ADBE) – $27.40B
• RealNetworks (RNWK) – $997.45M
• Napster (NAPS) – $153.12M
AAPL quote via NASDAQ here.
MacDailyNews Note: “I am putting a sell on Apple, the company that created the iPhone,” Laura Goldman, investment advisor, LSG Capital, May 21, 2007. AAPL closed at $111.98 that day. Apple has risen over 66% since Goldman’s “sell” recommendation.
Poor Laura. And I mean that like the opposite of rich not to pity.
“I am putting a sell on LSG Capital, the company that hired Laura Goldman.”
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MDN: the listing of companies and Apple’s position with respect to their market cap is excellent! Keep doing it in the future! It just feels great to be bigger than IBM!!
What’s most impressive in this list is the names of companies below Apple. And most of them weren’t there just about a year ago!
I sold my Apple stock @ $22 before two stock splits ago.
And I was happy to get $22 too.
Don’t get me wrong, I am a mac apologist. But at that time, Apple was hovering in the low teens and everybody thought Apple was dead.
So I am happy for Apple, sad for my loss, but happy for Apple. What I sold for $22 a share is now worth over $752 a share because of two splits. Amazing.
One more comes to mind: Nokia ($151B). That one as well belongs in the (ever-increasing) bottom part as of yesterday!
MegaMe, I share your pain. I came *this* close to buying at $7 (split-adjusted) four short years ago. If only …
Hey look man, Real and Napster arn’t dead man. Their vitals are real low but they ain’t dead.
Hey man, I don’t wanna rain on your parade, but Apple isn’t gonna last seventeen hours! Those things from Napster and Real are gonna come in here just like they did before. And they’re gonna come in here…
…and they’re gonna come in here AND THEY’RE GONNA KILL US!
Take a look at Laura baby:
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What a pig!
Damn, Denny.
Looks like she needs to sell off some of her assets…..
Apple worth more than Sony, Dell and Disney COMBINED? I don’t see it, it’s impossible!
Can you say ADJUSTMENT?
@TowerTone
Look at this readers comment to here original article.
Laura Goldman had a series of jobs on Wall Street but was thrown out of the US after a failed blackmail attempt against Thomas H Lee (the last in a long line of similar cases she brought) and she now runs LSG Capital from a seedy 2-room apartment in Tel Aviv. “Insightful”?? Yeah, right!
Comment by Andrew Latterman from Baltimore — June 25, 2007 @ 3:51 am
Enough said – what fscking a fraud!
Denny,
Laura may have a lot of “inner beauty” (but I agree that you’d probably have to peel off several layers of tissue to get there).
Hudson,
“we’re all gonna die!” “hey, the little girl survived for months.” “well, PUT HER IN CHARGE!”
Owning AAPL is fun!!!
Let’s see two shares of AAPL purchased at $11.00 each (back in the day) is now worth let’s see, 3 splits at one for every 2 you own means you end up with 6 shares. Then multiply the 6 shares times todays close of $186.16. Would mean that the $22.00 investment is worth a net profit (before Capital Gains Taxes) of $1,094.96. Not bad for a $22.00 investment.
Sherman,
Set the Wayback machine for October 2001. I’m going back to buy me some AAPL stock.
You should add RIMM ($69.71 B) to that list as well. Let’s not just list the has-beens. =)
OK, Mr. Peabody
Hey, Stockboy is back! I remember him! Hi Stock Boy! You’ve been saying “adjustment” for like a year now. That was back before AAPL was even at $100. Now look at it. I sure am glad I didn’t listen to you. I remember that you were telling me that it was going to drop into the $70’s before it hit the $100’s. I disagreed. Hmm, who was right? ME!
Real and Napster are lunch money.
Another fun one is Motorola. Remember them?
MOT – 43.46B
To put Laura Goldman’s bad read into perspective even more, the GAIN Apple has had is nearly enough to cover Adobe AND Dell combined.
Amazing!
MW = “position” – Don’t short your Apple position.
Laura Goldman, bend over! You deserve this one! *WHACK*
MDN: Laura Goldman should now be forgotten forever and never ever be mentioned again. She really deserves it.
i don’t see why the AAPL stock would go down.
there is absolutely no reason for that at all !, but, it’s not going to make similar gains in the next 12 months, it’s just not that valuable, yet.
but, in the long term (5+ years), Apple could get a 30+ market share with the mac, and the iPhone.
if i owned stock i would either: sell it in januari, or keep it 4 or 5 years.
MW: theory, just like this message
Don’t praise the day before the night. Apple’s detractors are going to strike back. Watch out for the shorts.
Unless the US economy shoots itself in the foot, i believe the chances of Apple going further are between pretty good and very good.
Any chance i can use Time Machine to go back to the time when i bought my first AAPL in 2002?
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So how much is Steve worth now?
According to my calculations, 186 zillion dollars ($186 x zillion shares)
@MacSheikh
Any chance i can use Time Machine to go back to the time when i bought my first AAPL in 2002?
lol, Don’t we wish!!
I bought a measly 72 shares of Apple stock in 2001 @ $14 a share and sold it all in December of 2004 at ~$76 per. I thought I was Warren Buffett ;P
Two months later it split (Feb. 2005). CRRRAAAPPP!
And to top it all off, I sold the shares to buy SUN! WTF was I thinkin’
P.S. Sold the SUN junk and repurchased 50 shares of Apple about 6 months after the split. So, not a horrendous loss, but to think of what could have been…..aaargh!