The
share value of
Apple, whose shares have increased more than 3 times since 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic began, gained close to 3 percent as of Monday.
On the first trading day of this year, the company's
share price went up to $182.88.
The company's market capitalization reached $3 trillion during the day. Thus,
Apple became "the first company to reach a market value of 3 trillion dollars."
Apple was followed by Microsoft, with a market capitalization of $2.5 trillion, and Alphabet, the parent company of Google, with a market value of $1.9 trillion.
Apple, whose market value first reached $1 trillion on August 2, 2018, reached a market value of $2 trillion on August 19, 2020.