1. From 01/01/15 through today Apple's stock is the second-best performer in the group of stocks you listed.1) No idea why I started at 2015, just copy pasted from a previous article I wrote. But good point, I'll take a better look at the wider data at some point.
2) Yeah, stock price. That's what we are talking about right? We aren't talking about the price of cheese.
2. Companies can't control their stock price - they can only control how well they execute their business. On that measure Apple is the #1 company of the group you listed. The market-assigned P/E for an industry and/or company varies on lots of factors, most again of which are outside of a company's control.