After a not-so-enterprising first-half of the year, Apple Inc. shares began picking up steam in the second-half. An analyst at Wedbush said Sunday, Cupertino is inching closer to a milestone. Apple on Doorstep of $3 Trillion Market-Cap Apple is on pace to become the first $3 trillion market-cap company this week, as investors begin to better appreciate the company’s robust fundamental story into 2022, analyst Daniel Ives, and a prominent Apple bull said in a note. “Hitting $3 trillion is another watershed moment for Apple as the company continues to prove the doubters wrong with the renaissance of growth story playing out in Cupertino,” the analyst said in the note. The “linchpin” to Apple’s valuation rerating, according to the analyst, is the company’s Services business, valued at about $1.5 trillion by the Street, and its flagship hardware ecosystem, which is in the midst of its strongest product cycle in over …