Apple Stock Forecast, Price & News

34 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Apple in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 6 hold ratings and 26 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "buy" Apple stock.
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Apple saw a increase in short interest in the month of May. As of May 28th, there was short interest totaling 123,120,000 shares, an increase of 29.9% from the May 13th total of 94,750,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 88,390,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.4 days. Approximately 0.7% of the company's stock are short sold.
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Apple is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, July 29th 2021.
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Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) announced its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, April, 27th. The iPhone maker reported $1.40 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.99 by $0.41. The iPhone maker had revenue of $89.58 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $76.84 billion. Apple had a net margin of 23.45% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 111.80%. The firm's revenue was up 53.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $0.64 earnings per share.
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Apple's stock was trading at $68.8575 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, AAPL shares have increased by 91.4% and is now trading at $131.79.
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Apple announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, April 28th. Investors of record on Monday, May 10th will be given a dividend of $0.22 per share on Thursday, May 13th. This represents a $0.88 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.67%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, May 7th. This is a boost from Apple's previous quarterly dividend of $0.21.
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Apple pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.68%. Apple has been increasing its dividend for 8 consecutive years, indicating the company has a new, but growing committment to grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio of Apple is 26.83%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, Apple will have a dividend payout ratio of 16.48% next year. This indicates that Apple 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 created shares were issued to shareholders after the market closes on Friday, August 28th 2020. An investor that had 100 shares of Apple stock prior to the split would have 400 shares after the split.

34 analysts have issued 12 month price objectives for Apple's shares. Their forecasts range from $66.60 to $185.00. On average, they anticipate Apple's share price to reach $149.50 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 13.4% from the stock's current price.
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11,001 employees have rated Apple CEO Tim Cook on Glassdoor.com. Tim Cook has an approval rating of 94% among Apple's employees. This puts Tim Cook in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Some companies that are related to Apple include Dell Technologies (DELL), HP (HPQ), NCR (NCR), 3D Systems (DDD), Avid Technology (AVID), Stratasys (SSYS), Diebold Nixdorf (DBD) and Kopin (KOPN).
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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), The Walt Disney (DIS), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), AT&T (T) and The 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 Geode Capital Management LLC (1.50%), Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (1.20%), Northern Trust Corp (1.19%), Morgan Stanley (0.73%), UBS Asset Management Americas Inc. (0.42%) and Swiss National Bank (0.39%). Company insiders that own Apple stock include Arthur D Levinson, Chris Kondo, Deirdre O'brien, Jeffrey E Williams, Katherine L Adams, Luca Maestri and Timothy D Cook.
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AAPL stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Jennison Associates LLC, Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD, Ameriprise Financial Inc., APG Asset Management N.V., Morgan Stanley, Janus Henderson Group PLC, Northern Trust Corp, and Blair William & Co. IL. Company insiders that have sold Apple company stock in the last year include Chris Kondo, Deirdre O'brien, Jeffrey E Williams, Katherine L Adams, Luca Maestri, and Timothy D Cook.
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AAPL stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including H&H International Investment LLC, Altshuler Shaham Ltd, Oak Ridge Investments LLC, Factorial Partners LLC, Parnassus Investments CA, Employees Retirement System of Texas, Toronto Dominion Bank, and Mercer Global Advisors Inc. ADV.
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Shares of AAPL 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 $131.79.

Apple has a market capitalization of $2.20 trillion and generates $274.52 billion in revenue each year. The iPhone maker earns $57.41 billion in net income (profit) each year or $3.28 on an earnings per share basis.

Apple employs 147,000 workers across the globe.

The following companies are subsidiares of Apple: Acunu, Akonia Holographics, AlgoTrim, Anobit Technologies, Apple Canada Inc., Apple Computer Trading (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., Apple Distribution International Limited, Apple Europe Limited, Apple France, Apple GmbH, Apple Japan Inc., Apple Operations Europe Limited, Apple Operations International Limited, Apple Operations Limited, Apple Pty Limited, Apple Sales International Limited, Apple Value Services LLC, Asaii Inc, AuthenTec, Beats Electronics, Beddit, Booklamp, Braeburn Capital Inc., BroadMap, Buddybuild, Burstly, Camerai, Catch.com, Chomp, Color Labs, Concept.io, Cue, DataTiger, Dialog Semiconductor, Drive.ai, Dryft, Embark1, Emotient, Fleetsmith, Flyby Media, FoundationDB, IKinema LTD, InVisage Technologies, Inductiv, Intel's smartphone modem business, Intrinsity, Lala, Laserlike, LearnSprout, LegbaCore, Locationary, MOG, Mapsense, Matcha, Mobeewave, Next Issue Media, NextVR, Novauris, Particle, Placebase, Platoon, Polar Rose, Poly9, Pop Up Archive, PowerSchool, PowerbyProxi, PrimeSense, Privaris, Prss, PullString, Quattro Wireless, Raycer Graphics, Scout FM, Semetric, SensoMotoric Instruments (SMI), Shazam, Silk Labs, Siri, SnappyLabs, Spaces, Spectral Edge, Spektral, Spotsetter, Stamplay, Texture by Next Issue, The Dark Sky Company, Topsy Labs, Tueo Health, Turi, Union Bay Networks, Vilynx, VocalIQ, Voysis, Vrvana, WiFiSLAM, Xnor.ai, imsense, indoor.io, metaio, and tuplejump.

Apple was founded in 1976.

The official website for Apple is www.apple.com.

Apple is headquartered at ONE APPLE PARK WAY, CUPERTINO CA, 95014.

Apple's mailing address is ONE APPLE PARK WAY, CUPERTINO CA, 95014. The iPhone maker can be reached via phone at 408-996-1010 or via email at [email protected]