Apple's Ride to $1 Trillion: The Magic Number That Gets It There

HIGHLIGHTS

• Apple updated its latest share count on Wednesday
• Company said to SEC that its share count was 4,829,926,000 on July 20
• Apple bought back $43 billion of its own shares between January and June

Apple updated its latest share count on Wednesday, putting the magic stock price at 

$207.04 (Rs. 14,142) that would make the iPhone maker the first publicly listed 

US company valued at $1 trillion (roughly Rs. 68.3 lakh crores).


Apple said in a quarterly filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, that its 

share count was 4,829,926,000 on July 20, less than the 4,842,917,000 it reported on 

Tuesday for the end of the June quarter.


Apple's stock rose 5.89 percent to a record-high close of $201.50 (roughly Rs. 13,770) on 

Wednesday following the company's better-than-expected quarterly results.


That would put Apple's stock market value at $973 billion (roughly Rs. 66.5 lakh crores), 

based on its newly disclosed number of shares


With a mountain of overseas cash freed up by last year's sweeping US corporate tax cuts, 

Apple bought back a record $43 billion of its own shares in the first six months of 2018, and 

its report to the SEC suggested it has continued that programme in recent weeks.


A lower share count means Apple's stock must reach a higher price to reach a $1 trillion 

market capitalisation.