Apple Inc (AAPL)

[BlueDjinn]

Market Cap looked at another way:

At a cap of $114 billion, Apple is now:

190 times larger than Gateway.

Over twice as larger as GM (20.8b), Ford (17.2b) and Chrysler (80% stake sold for $7.4 billion; call it perhaps $10 billion total) COMBINED.

(admittedly, this may say more about the sorry state of the U.S. auto industry than it does about Apple, but still...)

twice the size of Vivendi/Universal (37 billion Euros = about $50 billion). Maybe they should just buy Universal Music outright (like the rumor from 4 years ago...)

about 60% the size of Wal-Mart.

about 40% the size of Microsoft.

Holy Cats.

(and yes, I realize that market cap is just one of many ways of measuring a company, but it's still pretty damned eyebrow-raising).