Apple Adds $1.5 Trillion in 1 Year, Lifting Value to $4.54 Trillion

2 articles · Updated · Yahoo Finance · Aug 9

$4.54 trillion is Apple’s market value after a 51% jump in the past year, adding more than $1.5 trillion—over 2.5 times the company’s entire $580 billion value in August 2016.
$10,000 invested a decade ago at about $27 a split-adjusted share would now be worth roughly $126,000 with dividends reinvested, with most of the gain coming from price appreciation rather than income.
$8.72 in trailing-12-month earnings per share versus $2.08 in fiscal 2016 shows profit growth did much of the work, helped by a high-margin services business that lifted gross margin to 50.1% last quarter.
About one-third fewer shares outstanding—down from nearly 22 billion to 14.6 billion over the decade—also amplified per-share gains, helping the stock rise 11.5-fold even as Apple’s total market value grew about eightfold.

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