Apple - AAPL Stock Forecast, Price & News

32 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Apple in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 4 hold ratings and 26 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "buy" AAPL shares.
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32 analysts have issued 12-month price targets for Apple's stock. Their AAPL share price forecasts range from $54.00 to $199.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $168.03 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 6.3% from the stock's current price.
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Apple's stock was trading at $129.93 at the beginning of 2023. Since then, AAPL stock has increased by 21.7% and is now trading at $158.08.
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Apple saw a increase in short interest in the month of February. As of February 28th, there was short interest totaling 110,770,000 shares, an increase of 6.2% from the February 13th total of 104,340,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 72,690,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.5 days.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, April 27th 2023.
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Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February, 2nd. The iPhone maker reported $1.88 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $1.93 by $0.05. The iPhone maker earned $117.15 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $121.67 billion. Apple had a net margin of 24.56% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 163.45%. The company's revenue was down 5.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $2.10 earnings per share.
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Apple announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, February 2nd. Investors of record on Monday, February 13th will be given a dividend of $0.23 per share on Thursday, February 16th. This represents a $0.92 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.58%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, February 10th. This is a boost from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.17.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) stock in their portfolio include Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLK), Vanguard Information Technology ETF (VGT), Fidelity MSCI Information Technology Index ETF (FTEC), iShares Global Tech ETF (IXN), iShares U.S. Technology ETF (IYW), Direxion AAPL Bull 1.5X Shares (AAPU), iShares Russell Top 200 Growth ETF (IWY) and Vanguard Mega Cap Growth ETF (MGK).

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) pays an annual dividend of $0.92 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.59%. 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 15.62%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, AAPL will have a dividend payout ratio of 13.77% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Apple's stock split on Monday, August 31st 2020. The 4-1 split was announced on Thursday, July 30th 2020. The newly minted shares were payable to shareholders after the market closes 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 initiated a share repurchase plan on Thursday, April 28th 2022, which authorizes the company to repurchase $90,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization authorizes the company to reacquire up to 3.5% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase plans are often an indication that the company's board of directors believes its shares are 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 a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Berkshire Hathaway Inc (5.66%), Moneta Group Investment Advisors LLC (3.60%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.79%), Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (1.43%), Morgan Stanley (1.32%) and Norges Bank (1.06%). 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 $158.08.

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) has a market capitalization of $2.50 trillion and generates $394.33 billion in revenue each year. The iPhone maker earns $99.80 billion in net income (profit) each year or $5.89 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.