Apple Now Worth More Than Microsoft, Google Combined

In mid-day trading Friday, Apple shares were up 0.6% t0 $496.14, bringing the company’s market capitalization — or the number of outstanding shares times its stock price — to a staggering $462 billion, or nearly half a trillion dollars. That’s greater than the sum of Microsoft’s market cap — $257 billion — and Google’s market cap — $197 billion.

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amusing list of things that Apple is now worth more than:

– The gross domestic product of Sweden ($458 billion)
– All the gold in the Federal Reserve, and then some. ($350 billion)
– All the illegal drugs in the world, and then some ($321 billion)
– Six and a half years of global coffee consumption ($70 billion/year)
– More than six years of U.S. beef consumption ($74 billion/year)
– More than 2.5 Apollo space programs ($145-$170 billion apiece)
– Three times the entire U.S. clothing industry ($150 billion)