Apple is less than $20 a share away from being the first $1 trillion company (AAPL)

Apple has been rising after posting a great quarterly earnings result earlier this month.
The company saw a year/year increase for its iPhone, Mac, and iPad segments in its most recent quarter.
If the company hits $193.60 per share, it will have a market cap of $1 trillion.

Apple is closer than ever to becoming the first-ever trillion dollar company in the US.

Shares of the company are up 0.45% on Wednesday to record highs. The company's fourth-quarter earnings result beat Wall Street's expectations and sent the stock over the $900 billion mark earlier this month, according to data from Markets Insider.

The jump that happened after the strong numbers means that Apple is only about $20 per share away from becoming the first $1 trillion company, as measured by market capitalization. The company needs to hit $193.60 per share, a 10.26% move higher from its current price of $175.58, to hit the fabled trillion dollar mark.

Apple reported GAAP earnings of $2.07 per share compared to Wall Street's expectations of $1.87 per share, on revenue of $52.6 billion compared to the $50.5 billion expected.

Apple sold 46.7 million iPhones in the fourth quarter, for an average selling price that wasn't boosted by the newer, higher-priced iPhones yet. It sold 11% more iPads than the same period last year, and 10% more Macs.

Apple is now worth more than $903 billion after the company's earnings report and has gained about 12.37% over the last month, data from Markets Insider show, meaning the $1 trillion mark could be right around the corner for the company. This calculation assumes that the number of outstanding shares stays at its current levels.

Apple recently released its highly-anticipated iPhone X. Customers stood in days-long lines for their chance to buy the new flagship phones, which were expected to be in limited supply due to production constraints.

" target="_blank"We'll see how things go" was CEO Tim Cook's response to one analyst asking about the perceived supply and demand mismatch for the iPhone X. The company issued guidance for the December quarter that was higher than analysts' expectations though, which seemed to hint that Apple is expecting big numbers from the new phone.

Apple is up 51.24% this year following its post-earnings bump.

Apple is less than $20 a share away from being the first $1 trillion company (AAPL)

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