Apple's record hunt on Wall Street continues: As the first company in the world, the iPhone giant reached a market value of three trillion dollars on Monday.

The historic milestone is the result of a course rally that lasted for years, which even picked up pace during the Corona crisis.

Even global chip bottlenecks, problems in the supply chains and pandemic-related production downtimes could not change that.

At the beginning of the week, Apple reached a price increase of around three percent to $ 182.88 to crack the next trillion mark.

The share could not hold the price, however, at the end of trading, the market capitalization was again just under three trillion dollars.

Apple only passed the $ 2 trillion mark in August 2020.

Two years earlier, in August 2018, the company made history as the first US corporation with a thirteen-digit valuation.

Several other public companies later made it into this exclusive club.

The software giant Microsoft - which had even overtaken Apple in the meantime in the meantime - as well as the Google parent Alphabet, the world's largest online retailer Amazon and the rapidly growing electric car manufacturer Tesla were able to come up with trillion-dollar reviews on the US stock exchanges.

Apple is currently clearly at the top.

Apple is in the black

Driven by a flood of cheap money from the central banks, the financial markets have generally tended to airy exchange rates in recent years.

But unlike highly traded start-ups, Apple is continuously making billions in profits thanks to the great demand for iPhones and other tech products.

Although the last quarter suffered from a shortage of chips and global supply chain problems, Apple earned an enormous 94.7 billion dollars in the fiscal year that ended in September, increasing earnings by around 65 percent year-on-year.

The strong numbers are well received on Wall Street: In the past year, Apple's shares rose by almost 34 percent.

This made the stocks the eighth-best value in the US leading index, the Dow Jones.

Course sixfold in five years

The long-term success of Apple shares, which have been listed on the stock exchange since 1980, is shown by a look at the medium and long-term development: In the past five years, shareholders who have held the shares since then have more than sixfold their investment.

Since the beginning of 2002, the technology group, founded in 1976, has increased its share price by around 43,000 percent.

Anyone who invested $ 1,000 in Apple 20 years ago is worth around $ 430,000 today.

The increase since the IPO has been even more pronounced.

Anyone who started with $ 1,000 at the time and didn't sell them now has Apple shares for more than $ 1.8 million in their depot.