Monday, December 17, 2012

Apple's Lost Value Is Bigger Than The Combined Market Caps Of 54 S&P 500 Companies




Apple's stock stock price has been getting clobbered since closing at $702.10 on September 19, 2012. In a new note to BI, Oppenheimer's chief market strategist John Stoltzfus puts Apple's decline in perspective.

Apple has "been a drag on not only the Information Technology sector [but] broad markets".  From September 19 to December 14, Apple's market cap fell from $658.15 billion to $479.56 billion, a loss of $178.59 billion, notes Stoltzfus:

"If we list all 500 companies in the S&P 500 index in order by smallest to largest market cap, the value erased by Apple’s decline exceeds the cumulative total value of the 54 smallest companies–more than 10% of the companies in the entire S&P 500 index."

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-market-cap-decline-in-perspective-2012-12#ixzz2FL0H2xE1

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