Apple hits $3tn stock market valuation

Apple yesterday became the first enterprise to hit a stock market valuation of $3tn (£2.2tn), the BBC reports. Fuelled by increased spending on tech throughput the last 21 months of the pandemic, Apple’s share price topped the $3tn mark before slipping slightly to end the day’s trading at $2.99tn.

Apple became the first company to hit a stock market valuation of $1tn in August 2018. It’s valuation his $2tn in August 2020, and $3tn just 16 months later. When it launched on the stock market in 1980, it was valued at a (mere) $1.8bn.

“Hitting $3 trillion is another historical moment for Apple as the company continues to prove the doubters wrong,” Dan Ives, an analyst from Wedbush told the BBC. “The linchpin to Apples valuation re-rating remains its Services business which we believe is worth $1.5 trillion.”