Apple was the first company whose NASDAQ-listed shares carried the company above a US$1 trillion market capitalization.
Apple’s stock crossed the threshold on August 2, 2018. Apple trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker AAPL, placing it among the exchange’s best-known large technology companies. The market-cap calculation combined the quoted share price with the number of shares outstanding.
Apple’s NASDAQ history began after the company’s 1980 initial public offering. Its later scale was built through several product generations, especially the iPod, iPhone, iPad, and Mac, plus a growing services portfolio.
Exchange listing and company headquarters are separate facts. Apple is headquartered in Cupertino, California, while its shares trade on NASDAQ in the United States. Microsoft and Nvidia also trade on NASDAQ and have subsequently reached trillion-dollar valuations, but Apple reached the milestone first.