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Comparative Price Performance Over Time

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
AAPL Apple	$232.14 -0.2%	$215.79	$169.21 ▼ $260.10	$3.45T	1.16	58.94 million shs	39.38 million shs
MSFT Microsoft	$506.69 -0.6%	$508.77	$344.79 ▼ $555.45	$3.77T	1.06	21.70 million shs	20.95 million shs
XLK Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund	$262.45 -1.5%	$259.63	$172.45 ▼ $270.05	$83.91B	1.14	5.84 million shs	8.74 million shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
AAPL Apple	0.00%	+1.92%	+11.84%	+16.65%	+2.49%
MSFT Microsoft	0.00%	-0.11%	-5.03%	+10.45%	+23.40%
XLK Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund	0.00%	+0.01%	-0.11%	+14.31%	+19.61%

Compare MarketRank™

Company	Overall Score	Analyst's Opinion	Short Interest Score	Dividend Strength	ESG Score	News and Social Media Sentiment	Company Ownership	Earnings & Valuation
AAPL Apple	4.6369 of 5 stars	2.3	3.0	3.3	2.8	3.3	2.5	2.5
MSFT Microsoft	4.9608 of 5 stars	3.5	4.0	3.3	2.9	3.9	2.5	2.5
XLK Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Compare Analyst Forecasts

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
AAPL Apple	2.57	Moderate Buy	$237.37	2.25% Upside
MSFT Microsoft	2.97	Moderate Buy	$612.54	20.89% Upside
XLK Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund	2.76	Moderate Buy	$262.45	N/A

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest XLK, MSFT, and AAPL Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
8/29/2025	MSFT Microsoft	Barclays Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Overweight ➝ Overweight	$625.00
8/26/2025	AAPL Apple	The Goldman Sachs Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Buy ➝ Buy	$266.00 ➝ $266.00
8/25/2025	AAPL Apple	Bank of America Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Buy ➝ Buy	$250.00
8/21/2025	AAPL Apple	Loop Capital Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Hold ➝ Hold	$230.00 ➝ $226.00
8/18/2025	MSFT Microsoft	Truist Financial Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$650.00 ➝ $675.00
8/18/2025	MSFT Microsoft	Truist Financial Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Buy ➝ Strong-Buy	$650.00 ➝ $675.00
8/13/2025	AAPL Apple	BMO Capital Markets Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Buy ➝ Buy
8/13/2025	AAPL Apple	Evercore ISI Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Outperform ➝ Outperform	$250.00
8/7/2025	AAPL Apple	Wedbush Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Outperform ➝ Outperform	$270.00
8/7/2025	AAPL Apple	Bank of America Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$240.00 ➝ $250.00
8/1/2025	AAPL Apple	DA Davidson Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Buy ➝ Buy	$250.00

(Data available from 8/31/2022 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Compare Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
AAPL Apple	$391.04B	8.81	$7.64 per share	30.40	$4.44 per share	52.28
MSFT Microsoft	$281.72B	13.37	$18.29 per share	27.70	$46.21 per share	10.96
XLK Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Compare Profitability & Earnings

Company	Net Income	EPS	Trailing P/E Ratio	Forward P/E Ratio	P/E Growth	Net Margins	Return on Equity (ROE)	Return on Assets (ROA)	Next Earnings Date
AAPL Apple	$93.74B	$6.59	35.23	28.31	2.42	24.30%	170.91%	31.94%	10/30/2025 (Estimated)
MSFT Microsoft	$101.83B	$13.64	37.15	34.47	2.21	36.15%	32.44%	18.20%	10/29/2025 (Estimated)
XLK Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund	N/A	N/A	35.59	∞	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Latest XLK, MSFT, and AAPL Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue	Details
7/31/2025	Q3 2025	AAPL Apple	$1.43	$1.57	+$0.14	$1.57	$88.64 billion	$94.04 billion
7/30/2025	Q4 2025	MSFT Microsoft	$3.35	$3.65	+$0.30	$3.65	$73.79 billion	$76.44 billion

Compare Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	3-Year Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
AAPL Apple	$1.04	0.45%	N/A	15.78%	14 Years
MSFT Microsoft	$3.32	0.66%	N/A	24.34%	23 Years
XLK Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund	$1.55	0.59%	N/A	N/A	N/A

Latest XLK, MSFT, and AAPL Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
6/10/2025	MSFT Microsoft	quarterly	$0.83	0.71%	8/21/2025	8/21/2025	9/11/2025
7/31/2025	AAPL Apple	quarterly	$0.26	0.5%	8/11/2025	8/11/2025	8/14/2025

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Compare Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
AAPL Apple	1.25	0.87	0.83
MSFT Microsoft	0.12	1.35	1.35
XLK Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A

Compare Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
AAPL Apple	67.73%
MSFT Microsoft	71.13%
XLK Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund	N/A

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
AAPL Apple	0.06%
MSFT Microsoft	0.03%
XLK Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund	N/A

Compare Miscellaneous Stats

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
AAPL Apple	164,000	14.84 billion	14.83 billion	Optionable
MSFT Microsoft	228,000	7.43 billion	7.43 billion	Optionable
XLK Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund	N/A	319.71 million	N/A	Not Optionable

XLK, MSFT, and AAPL Headlines

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XLK, MSFT, and AAPL Company Descriptions

Apple NASDAQ:AAPL

$232.14 -0.42 (-0.18%)

Closing price 08/29/2025 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$232.04 -0.10 (-0.04%)

As of 08/29/2025 08:00 PM Eastern

Apple Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets smartphones, personal computers, tablets, wearables, and accessories worldwide. The company offers iPhone, a line of smartphones; Mac, a line of personal computers; iPad, a line of multi-purpose tablets; and wearables, home, and accessories comprising AirPods, Apple TV, Apple Watch, Beats products, and HomePod. It also provides AppleCare support and cloud services; and operates various platforms, including the App Store that allow customers to discover and download applications and digital content, such as books, music, video, games, and podcasts. In addition, the company offers various services, such as Apple Arcade, a game subscription service; Apple Fitness+, a personalized fitness service; Apple Music, which offers users a curated listening experience with on-demand radio stations; Apple News+, a subscription news and magazine service; Apple TV+, which offers exclusive original content; Apple Card, a co-branded credit card; and Apple Pay, a cashless payment service, as well as licenses its intellectual property. The company serves consumers, and small and mid-sized businesses; and the education, enterprise, and government markets. It distributes third-party applications for its products through the App Store. The company also sells its products through its retail and online stores, and direct sales force; and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and resellers. Apple Inc. was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

Microsoft NASDAQ:MSFT

$506.69 -2.95 (-0.58%)

Closing price 08/29/2025 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$506.72 +0.02 (+0.00%)

As of 08/29/2025 07:59 PM Eastern

Microsoft Corporation develops and supports software, services, devices and solutions worldwide. The Productivity and Business Processes segment offers office, exchange, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, office 365 Security and Compliance, Microsoft viva, and Microsoft 365 copilot; and office consumer services, such as Microsoft 365 consumer subscriptions, Office licensed on-premises, and other office services. This segment also provides LinkedIn; and dynamics business solutions, including Dynamics 365, a set of intelligent, cloud-based applications across ERP, CRM, power apps, and power automate; and on-premises ERP and CRM applications. The Intelligent Cloud segment offers server products and cloud services, such as azure and other cloud services; SQL and windows server, visual studio, system center, and related client access licenses, as well as nuance and GitHub; and enterprise services including enterprise support services, industry solutions, and nuance professional services. The More Personal Computing segment offers Windows, including windows OEM licensing and other non-volume licensing of the Windows operating system; Windows commercial comprising volume licensing of the Windows operating system, windows cloud services, and other Windows commercial offerings; patent licensing; and windows Internet of Things; and devices, such as surface, HoloLens, and PC accessories. Additionally, this segment provides gaming, which includes Xbox hardware and content, and first- and third-party content; Xbox game pass and other subscriptions, cloud gaming, advertising, third-party disc royalties, and other cloud services; and search and news advertising, which includes Bing, Microsoft News and Edge, and third-party affiliates. The company sells its products through OEMs, distributors, and resellers; and directly through digital marketplaces, online, and retail stores. The company was founded in 1975 and is headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund NYSEARCA:XLK

$262.45 -4.09 (-1.53%)

Closing price 08/29/2025 04:10 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$262.31 -0.14 (-0.05%)

As of 08/29/2025 07:59 PM Eastern

Sector SPDR Trust SBI Interest, formerly Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund, seeks to provide investment results that correspond to the price and yield performance of the Technology Select Sector of the S&P 500 Index (the Index). The Index includes companies primarily involved in industries, such as information technology (IT) consulting, semiconductor equipment and products, computers and peripherals, diversified telecommunication services and wireless telecommunication services.It utilizes a passive or indexing investment approach to invest in a portfolio of stocks that seek to replicate the Index. Sector SPDR Trust SBI Interest's investment advisor is SSgA Funds Management, Inc.

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