Apple - AAPL Stock Forecast, Price & News

32 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Apple in the last twelve months. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 6 hold ratings, 23 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "buy" AAPL shares.
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32 equities research analysts have issued twelve-month price objectives for Apple's shares. Their AAPL share price forecasts range from $136.00 to $210.00. On average, they expect the company's share price to reach $176.30 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 23.4% from the stock's current price.
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Apple's stock was trading at $177.57 at the beginning of the year. Since then, AAPL shares have decreased by 19.5% and is now trading at $142.91.
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Apple saw a increase in short interest in November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totaling 114,430,000 shares, an increase of 10.9% from the October 31st total of 103,180,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 89,260,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 1.3 days.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, January 26th 2023.
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Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) released its earnings results on Thursday, October, 27th. The iPhone maker reported $1.29 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $1.26 by $0.03. The iPhone maker earned $90.15 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $88.77 billion. Apple had a net margin of 25.31% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 160.90%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 7.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $1.24 EPS.
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Apple announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, October 27th. Investors of record on Monday, November 7th will be paid a dividend of $0.23 per share on Thursday, November 10th. This represents a $0.92 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.64%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, November 4th.
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Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) pays an annual dividend of $0.92 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.63%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 11 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 15.06%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, AAPL will have a dividend payout ratio of 13.61% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Apple shares split before market open on Monday, August 31st 2020. The 4-1 split was announced on Thursday, July 30th 2020. The newly created shares were payable to shareholders after the closing bell on Friday, August 28th 2020. An investor that had 100 shares of stock prior to the split would have 400 shares after the split.

Apple announced that its Board of Directors has approved a stock repurchase program on Thursday, April 28th 2022, which permits the company to buyback $90,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization permits the company to purchase up to 3.5% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are typically a sign that the company's management believes its stock is undervalued.

11,001 employees have rated Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook on Glassdoor.com. Tim Cook has an approval rating of 94% among the company's employees. This puts Tim Cook in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Apple investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), Alibaba Group (BABA), Tesla (TSLA), Micron Technology (MU), Netflix (NFLX), General Electric (GE), Walt Disney (DIS), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), AT&T (T) and Boeing (BA).

Apple trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "AAPL."

Apple's stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Vanguard Group Inc. (8.00%), State Street Corp (3.72%), Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (1.41%), UBS Asset Management Americas Inc. (0.42%), Fisher Asset Management LLC (0.37%) and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.30%). Insiders that own company stock include Arthur D Levinson, Chris Kondo, Deirdre O'brien, Jeffrey E Williams, Jeffrey E Williams, Katherine L Adams, Katherine L Adams, Luca Maestri and Timothy D Cook.
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Shares of AAPL stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of AAPL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $142.91.

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) has a market capitalization of $2.27 trillion and generates $394.33 billion in revenue each year. The iPhone maker earns $99.80 billion in net income (profit) each year or $6.11 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 164,000 workers across the globe.

Apple's mailing address is ONE APPLE PARK WAY, CUPERTINO CA, 95014. The official website for the company is www.apple.com. The iPhone maker can be reached via phone at (408) 996-1010, via email at tgala@apple.com, or via fax at 408-974-2483.