This is a first in the history of the stock market. This foray will have been short-lived, the space of a few seconds, a little bit before 20 hours.
Le Monde with AFP
Apple has crossed, Monday, January 3, the symbolic threshold of the $ 3 trillion (about € 2,655 billion) of capitalization. This is a first in the stock market history, which testifies to the success of a group whose value has almost increased since the departure of its co-founder and General Manager Steve Jobs, in August 2011.
This incursion will only have been short-lived, the space of a few seconds a little bit before 20 hours (Paris time), the title having lost a little ground thereafter. At around 8:10 pm, the action was up 2.6% at $ 182.19. AAPL, the initials of the title listed on the Nasdaq Electronic Exchange, represented, at this moment of the meeting, $ 2,9888 billion.
In early August 2018, the first company to pass the $ 1,000 billion, thirty-eight years after its IPO, Apple only needed two years to cross 2,000 billion, then sixteen months to go beyond 3 000 billion.
Nothing seems to be able to stop the progress of Apple’s course, which has disappointed the analysts during his last quarter, completed at the end of September and published at the end of October. Microsoft, the company co-founded by Bill Gates, is the only other company in the world whose market value exceeds $ 2,000 billion.
Silicon scarcity, essential component of electronic chip manufacturing, and disturbances related to the CVIV-19 pandemic in subcontracting plants in South-East Asia have been around Apple about $ 6 billion. sales. When presenting these results, the Director General, Tim Cook, had explained to expect the impact to be at least as important in the next quarter, which covers the end-of-year holidays.
A company driven by the sales of the iPhone
In spite of these difficulties, the company still planned to realize a record turnover during the quarter from October to December, the first of its exercise 2021-2022.
Some forty-five years after its foundation on the idea of the mainstream microcomputer, Apple is a company driven by the sales of the iPhone. Its flagship product, launched in 2007, generated some $ 191.9 billion in turnover during its 2020-2021 (October to September) exercise, by far a record.
Even the assaults of which it is the object in recent years from competitors or regulators, who criticizes his closed and exclusive ecosystem, do not seem to affect the popularity of the title with investors.
The Group is, in fact, under the European Union (EU) procedure for “distorting competition” via its App Store application store, which usually charges from 15 to 30% of Commission on application editors.
In September, a US federal judge forbidden Apple to impose on the publishers of using his payment system for their applications, while considering that the manufacturer of the iPhone was not in an illegal monopoly.
The group has recently made some concessions, to allow publishers to bypass, under certain conditions, this payment system.
