Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is one the world's largest publicly traded companies, with a market cap of $3.7 trillion and it continues to attract investor attention as it slowly steps into new areas of innovation,

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has done its part to lift the holiday spirits of its shareholders as 2024 comes to an end. Indeed, Apple's 269% return in just the past five years has more than tripled the S&P 500 index's 82% gain over the same period.

Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) and Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) are very popular stocks among individual and institutional investors, but two highly successful hedge fund managers aggressively bought one and sold the other in the third quarter: Ken Griffin of Citadel Advisors purchased 4.