shares of apple inc aapl bulled up 20 into record territory in afternoon trading monday enough to pace the dow jones industrial averages djia gainers the technology behemoths stock has now run up 59 amid a fourday win streak and was currently headed for a close above the dec 10 record of 17945 a record close on monday would be the stocks 24th record close in 2021 meanwhile the dow was up 265 points or 07 but was still just below its nov 8 record close of 3643222 apples stock rally has extended apples lead as the most valuable us company with a market capitalization of 295 trillion shares of secondplace microsoft corp msft are up 19 in afternoon trading to give the software giant a market cap of 256 trillion the record close was 34311 on nov 19