Jan. 3 (Reuters) – Apple on Monday became the first US company to reach the symbolic mark of $ 3 trillion (2.655 billion euros) in market capitalization.
In the first session of 2022, the stock hit a mid-day record high of $ 182.88, putting Apple’s market value just above $ 3 trillion.
The group’s action ended the session up 2.5% to $ 182.01, with Apple’s market capitalization at the close of close to $ 3 trillion.
The world’s highest-valued company is the first to hit that threshold, with investors betting that consumers will continue to spend a lot of money on iPhones, MacBooks, and Apple-provided services like Apple Music or Apple TV.
Among the heavyweights of new technologies, Microsoft is the company that follows Apple more closely with a market capitalization of just over 2.5 trillion dollars, while Alphabet, parent company of Google, Amazon remain for the moment. below the $ 2,000 billion mark on the stock market. (Report Nivedita Balu, with Eva Mathews and Chavi Mehta; French version Camille Raynaud)