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Apple Hits $4 Trillion Market Value, Joining Nvidia and Microsoft

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Apple's market capitalization briefly surpassed $4 trillion just after opening today, making it the third public company to reach that figure. Nvidia reached $4 trillion back in July and is creeping closer to $5 trillion, while Microsoft also hit $4 trillion that same month before dropping down to a $3.9 trillion valuation, but it too has passed $4 trillion again this morning.

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Market capitalization is based on the total value of all outstanding Apple shares. We won't have an updated share count until Apple provides its earnings for the fourth fiscal quarter of 2025, so it is worth noting that the current market cap is not quite accurate. Apple's next earnings report will be shared on Thursday, October 30.

Apple became the world's first $3 trillion company in January 2022, but it has not been able to keep up with Nvidia since then due to global demand for Nvidia's chips.

No other publicly traded companies are close to the $4 trillion mark aside from Nvidia, Apple, and Microsoft. Google parent company Alphabet has a market valuation of $3.25 trillion, Amazon is at $2.42 trillion, and Meta's market valuation is $1.90 trillion.

Apple stock has been climbing since the September launch of the iPhone 17 models thanks to strong demand for the new devices.

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PBG4 Dude said:
It’s hard to believe that my roughly $300 investment in 2019 is worth almost $2,300 today.
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I started in 2008 after seeing the iPhone and thinking this little gadget is a winner! Guess where I'm at now? LOL! Of course I have bought and sold many times, but it's the best financial investment I've ever made! More recently it got a little scary but I hung on.
Congrats to you!
 
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I don't one iota about any of this. Fix bugs Apple. Also start listening to your customers; you have outgrown too far to hang on to Steve's mantra 'we don't ask people what they want, we tell them what they need'. Or some variation thereof.

Also, don't give up on endeavours. Why can't we have an AirPort? A mini iPhone? You've released something like 5 iPod models at one time, surely you can squeeze in another iPhone model. Or will you give up on the thin model if you release a folding one?
 
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Hank001 said:
I don't one iota about any of this. Fix bugs Apple. Also start listening to your customers; you have outgrown too far to hang on to Steve's mantra 'we don't ask people what they want, we tell them what they need'. Or some variation thereof.

Also, don't give up on endeavours. Why can't we have an AirPort? A mini iPhone? You've released something like 5 iPod models at one time, surely you can squeeze in another iPhone model. Or will you give up on the thin model if you release a folding one?
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The Minis sold poorly and simply don't have enough demand. Beyond a loud internet minority.
 
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This isn't good news. If we want Apple to address some of their many shortcomings in recent years we need the stock price to be stalling not going up to force change. As it stands we're in more years yet of stagnating apps, substandard software, flawed new product categories and no overarching vision
 
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SactoGuy18 said:
What's helping are VERY strong sales of the regular iPhone 17 and the iPhone 17 Pro/Pro Models.
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Also they turn a profit and pay dividends. That's very important to those watching the AI space wondering if its a bubble or not. If I had shares in Nvidia I'd be cashing out about now as their value isn't exactly based on 120fps videogames and crypto mining.
 
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Hank001 said:
Also, don't give up on endeavours. Why can't we have an AirPort? A mini iPhone? You've released something like 5 iPod models at one time, surely you can squeeze in another iPhone model. Or will you give up on the thin model if you release a folding one?
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The AirPort was a failure from a commercial perspective. So was the iPhone mini. Apple tried both and both failed with consumers. So, like any well-run company, Apple chose to abandon those products and focus on other products that sell better.

If those products had sold well and were a good return on investment, you can bet Apple would have continued them. What MR readers need to remember is that MR readers are an insignificant part of the consumer pie from Apple's perspective. What an MR reader wants (another AirPort, another iPhone mini) is often not what 99.99% of the consuming public cares about.

Apple, like all well-run companies, will focus on what the majority of consumers want, as that is good business (ie: it brings in bigger revenue). It will try things (like the iPhone mini or iPhone Air) and if they don't perform well with a large majority of users, Apple will cut those products.

Also, many MR readers often say, "But Apple is so rich, they could afford to make the iPhone mini still...". That viewpoint lacks an understanding of how manufacturing works. Apple could afford to make a new iPhone mini to sell to a small group of MR readers, but that would take up valuable supply chain resources (and entire factories), which would take away from the company's manufacturing supply lines for other products. Just because Apple can afford to, doesn't mean that doing so wouldn't hurt the production of other, more popular products by reducing their manufacturing capabilities.
 
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tomtad said:
This isn't good news. If we want Apple to address some of their many shortcomings in recent years we the stock price to be stalling not going up to force change. As it stands we're in more years yet of stagnating apps, substandard software, flawed new product categories and no overarching vision
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Amen. It's great that Apple is a success but as you say, it's masking some serious issues.

In 10 years, it's perfectly possible that Apple will be in the same state as Intel is now. Seriously.
 
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Okay, that’s great for Tim Cook and Apple. What good does that do for me and the rest of the consumers? If anything, it makes Apple
Look even worse because they have incredible amounts of money but are too cheap to spend any of it on REAL groundbreaking, innovative products. It’s sad when a $300 android phone based company can put rear screens, etc on its phones and all we get is Tim Cook rehashing the same thing year after year while telling us it’s the best one yet, that we’re going to love it…then passes it off to Craig to tell us all about it. 🙄
 
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