Apple passed ExxonMobil as the most-valuable publicly traded company several times yesterday, but ExxonMobil ended the day ahead of Apple. Both companies' stock prices were down today, but XOM fell quite a bit farther, making Apple the most valuable public company in the world. br/ br/ img src="http://images.macrumors.com/article-new/2011/08/aaplvsxom1.jpg" alt="" title="aaplvsxom" width="491" height="314" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-320537" / br/ Apple a href="http://google.com/finance?client=obq=NASDAQ:AAPL"closed/a the day at #36;363.49, with a market cap of #36;337.17 billion. Exxon Mobil a href="http://google.com/finance?client=obq=NYSE:XOM"ended/a at #36;68.03, with the company valued at #36;330.88 billion. br/ br/ Apple might be worth more than Exxon Mobil, but XOM remains a much bigger company. Exxon made #36;10.7 billion in profit on #36;121.4 billion in revenue in the June quarter with 83,600 employees. br/ br/ Apple made #36;7.3 billion on #36;28.6 billion in revenue with 46,600 employees last quarter.br/ br/ br/ bRecent Mac and iOS Blog Stories/bbr/ bull; a href="http://macrumors.com/2011/08/09/cablevision-releases-optimum-app-for-iphone-and-ipod-touch/"Cablevision Releases Optimum App For iPhone and iPod Touch/abr/ bull; a href="http://macrumors.com/2011/08/09/apples-ownership-of-pvrapple-com-confirmed/"Apple#039;s Ownership of PVRApple.com Confirmed/abr/ bull; a href="http://macrumors.com/2011/08/09/apple-store-liverpool-one-empty-ahead-of-unrest/"Apple Store Liverpool ONE Empty Ahead of Unrest [Updated]/abr/ bull; a href="http://macrumors.com/2011/08/08/cut-the-rope-experiments-delivers-more-candy-for-om-nom/"#039;Cut the Rope: Experiments#039; Delivers More Candy For Om Nom/abr/ bull; a href="http://macrumors.com/2011/08/08/logic-9-1-5-updates-bring-bug-fixes-and-apogee-duet-2-compatibility-improvements/"Logic 9.1.5 Updates Bring Bug Fixes and Apogee Duet 2 Compatibility Improvements/abr/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/fQNaiWnAHlG1ZWLLDbmvI-vqDUU/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/fQNaiWnAHlG1ZWLLDbmvI-vqDUU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/fQNaiWnAHlG1ZWLLDbmvI-vqDUU/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/fQNaiWnAHlG1ZWLLDbmvI-vqDUU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=6o85hrHYzKI:iZJH5SFCMLE:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=6o85hrHYzKI:iZJH5SFCMLE:6W8y8wAjSf4"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=6W8y8wAjSf4" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=6o85hrHYzKI:iZJH5SFCMLE:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MacRumors-Front/~4/6o85hrHYzKI" height="1" width="1"/

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