Apple becomes world's first $1trn company

Shares passed $207

Laura Dew
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Apple has become the first company to reach a market cap of $1trn after shares passed $207 this afternoon.

The tech giant saw its shares pass $207.05, which makes the company's market cap $1trn.  It had previously been expected to reach this figure when shares passed $203.45 but Apple released an adjusted outstanding share count of 4,829,926,000.  The technology giant was founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne and is best known for the iPhone smartphone and iMac computers. It listed on the NASDAQ in December 1980 with shares priced at $22 each.  Gallery: US tech firms with biggest gains since IPO This is the first firm to reach $1trn; the next largest is Google...

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