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In 1997 Microsoft purchased $150 million of non-voting Apple shares.
Steve Jobs holds 5.426 million shares in Apple and 138 million shares in Disney.
There are 917 million Apple shares available for trading. Individuals and institutions can hold blocks of these shares so it is not known how many shareholders there are.
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Yes. The stock symbol for Apple Inc is AAPL.
Short Sighted - 2010 Floating the Apple 1-3 was released on: USA: 8 May 2010
Arthur D. Levinson
No, Microsoft invested 150 million dollars in Apple shares in 1997 as a result of a patent dispute. Those shares where sold 5 years later.
A company can issue shares, which is like slicing the ownership of the company up into thousands or millions of pieces. If you own 10 shares of Apple Corp (10 shares is worth about $1000 US, currently) you've got part ownership of Apple Corp. However, since Apple has several billion shares outstanding, you would only own a very small part of the company. It's up to the company to decide how many shares to sell. Of course the more shares they sell, the less each share is worth.
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In today's market, apple shares are actually almost $500 a share. Theoretically speaking, if shares were purchased in 1989 before apple truly became a house hold name, then you would have gotten your investment back with a profit.