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The year began with a historic moment on the US stock exchange: With Apple, a US corporation reached a market value of more than three trillion dollars for the first time on Monday - at least for a short time.
In the meantime, the market value has slipped back below the round mark.
Nevertheless, the development of Apple shares is downright breathtaking.
Within just four years, the iPhone manufacturer, which now has a share of 7 percent in the S&P 500 index, tripled its market value.
The increase since the IPO in December 1980 has been even more pronounced.
Anyone who started with $ 1,000 at the time and has not sold since then has Apple shares for more than $ 1.8 million in their depot today.
Here are some of the investors who currently hold the largest Apple bundles and should be most excited about the recent Wall Street record:
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The largest Apple shareholders are institutional investors. The US fund company
Vanguard
, for example, which specializes in listed index funds, holds, according to the US broadcaster CNN, at least around 1.2 billion Apple securities and thus around 7.3 percent of the company - more than any other investor. At the current price of Apple shares of around $ 182, these shares, which are spread across various Vanguard funds, have a total value of around $ 218.4 billion.
The world's largest asset manager Blackrock
, which ranks third among Apple investors, is
also on a large block of shares with a stake of at least around 4.8 percent .
As with Vanguard, further Apple shares held by corporate subsidiaries could also be added to Blackrock.
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Blackrock ranks behind
Berkshire Hathaway
.
The investment company of stock market legend
Warren Buffett
(91) - actually known as a rather technophobic - had invested in Apple in 2016 with great public sympathy and is now Apple's second largest shareholder with a stake of 5.4 percent.
Buffett has done another sensational deal with this: at the end of March 2016, when Berkshire joined Apple, the stock was still trading at less than $ 30.
The rate has now risen to around $ 182.
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Laurene
Powell Jobs
(58), the widow of Apple founder
Steve Jobs
, who died in 2011, is undoubtedly happy about Apple's bull market.
She inherited an extensive package of Apple and Disney shares from her husband that remains at the core of her wealth to this day.
Powell Jobs currently ranks 95th on Forbes' global rich list with a fortune of nearly $ 19 billion.
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Also Apple's major shareholder:
Tim Cook
(61), the company's CEO.
According to Investopedia, Cook last owned more than 837,000 shares in the company - as of the end of 2020 -, i.e. a stake of 0.02 percent.
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Cook is topped, however, by
Arthur Levinson
(71), chairman of the supervisory board of Apple and at the same time founder and head of the US biotech company Calico.
Levinson, pictured with his wife
Rita May Liff
, recently owned just under 4.5 million Apple shares, according to Investopedia, which at the current price level are worth around $ 819 million.
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According to Investopedia,
Jeff Williams
(59), the chief operating officer of the iPhone group, recently had around 490,000 Apple shares.
He is also one of Apple's largest private shareholders.
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