Apple (AAPL) closed Thursday at a record high $493.17, up a whopping $16.49 (3.46%) for the day. Fortune magazine started a list of Things Apple is Worth More Than:
- The gross domestic product of Sweden ($458 billion)
- All the gold in the Federal Reserve, and then some. ($350 billion)
- All the illegal drugs in the world, and then some ($321 billion)
- Six and a half years of global coffee consumption ($70 billion/year)
- More than six years of U.S. beef consumption ($74 billion/year)
- More than five U.S. Civil Wars ($74-$84 billion each)
- More than 2.5 Apollo space programs ($145-$170 billion apiece)
- Three times the entire U.S. clothing industry ($150 billion)
- Fourteen National Football Leagues ($33 billion for all the teams combined)
