Apple - The Most Valuable Company in the World

Apple The most valuable company in the world The recent run of Apple's stock price has extended the company's lead as the MOST VALUABLE public company in the world. Market capitalization of the world's largest public companies billion U.S. dollars Apple $615b Exxon Mobil $404b Corporation Microsoft $258b Corporation Wal-Mart Stores $242b PetroChina Company $235b 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 as of August 21, 2012 APPLE is now worth MORE THAN TWICE as much as America's largest media conglomerates COMBINED. Market capitalization of Apple and selected American corporations billion U.S. dollars Apple $615b 4 e 10 8. $ 219b $ 41b Hewlett-Packard $ 39b $ 18b $ 3b $3b $ 59b $ 22b $ 4b $ 108b $91b Time Warner $ 40b $ 26b $ 56b $ 89b Google Comcast Facebook 3. Viacom Yahoo! News Corp. AOL Disney Groupon eBay Total $ 303b Dell RIM Apple $615b 10 Amazon Total $ 516b as of August 21, 2012 And this is the incredible run that got Apple to where it is. In the past 10 years, Apple's stock price increased by more than 8,000 percent! 10-year stock performance of selected tech companies Apple Microsoft IBM Yahoo! Amazon Google 9,000% 8,000% 7,000% 6,000% 5,000% 4,000% 3,000% 2,000% 1,000% 0% -1,000% August 21, 2002 August 20, 2012 statista ©Eommons creative Source: Yahoo! Finance The Statistics Portal b.