Apple Inc. recently passed Google in market value on Aug 13th @$179/share for AAPL and @$500/share for GOOG.

• Microsoft (MSFT) - $255,648,204,000
• IBM (IBM) - $169,964,678,000
• Apple (AAPL) - $157,012,662,240
• Google (GOOG) - $156,392,862,560
• Cisco (CSCO) - $142,125,692,160
• Intel (INTC) - $135,658,860,000
• Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) - $111,866,423,760
• Nokia (NOK) - $97,746,699,520
• Research In Motion (RIMM) - $71,143,935,000
• Disney (DIS) - $59,257,501,500
• Dell (DELL) - $50,483,256,060

At the same time two years ago, Apple was trading around $63 a share, this is an amazing performance considering the crash at the end of 2000 when Apple was trading at $7.5 a share and stayed around that price for the next 3 years!

Let’s not forget that in December last year, Apple broke the $200 mark! So there this is not marginal and there is still a lot of potential for Apple especially whit the iPhone being released on new markets around the world in the next few weeks!

Like Mac Rumors says, it’s time to revive Michael Dell’s famous comment in 1997 when asked about what he would do to fix the then money-losing Apple:

“What would I do? I’d shut [Apple] down and give the money back to the shareholders,” Michael Dell said before a crowd of several thousand IT executives

Who’s your dady now Michael?!