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On Monday, Apple’s stock market value rose briefly above $3 trillion for the first time ever, and it repeated that again on Tuesday before losing ground

Apple Inc’s stock market value peaked on Tuesday for a second day above $3 trillion, but the iPhone maker’s shares again failed to hold on to that gain by the session’s end.

Apple shares ended down 1.3% at $179.70, leaving its market capitalization at $2.95 trillion.

On Monday, Apple’s stock market value rose briefly above $3 trillion for the first time ever, and it repeated that again on Tuesday before losing ground. The world’s most valuable company has yet to end a session at that level.

Apple accounts for nearly 7% of S&P 500 index’s value, according to Refinitiv data, the highest for a single stock in the index at a time when the benchmark is perched at a peak.

Surging demand for iPhones, MacBooks and iPads during the pandemic helped push the Cupertino, California company’s market capitalization past $2 trillion in August 2020.

Apple has been one of the key pandemic trades for a lot of people and as we exit the pandemic. The iPhone maker is going to struggle a little bit, warned Edward Moya, senior market analyst at Oanda in New York.

Apple’s massive share repurchases in recent years have also fuelled its stock rally.

The company has bought back $348 billion worth of shares in the five years through the September quarter of 2021, reducing its share count by 23% over that period, according to Howard Silverblatt, senior index analyst at S&P Dow Jones Indices.

You know there’s going to be buying, Silverblatt said. From an investor point of view, it’s very important.

Notably, Apple is worth more than any of Europe’s main regional indexes including Britain’s FTSE 100, France’s CAC 40, Germany’s DAX, Spain’s IBEX 35 and Italy’s FTSE MIB.

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