NASDAQ:AAPL - Apple Stock Price, Price Target & More

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

Apple announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, May 1st. Shareholders of record on Monday, May 14th will be given a dividend of $0.73 per share on Thursday, May 17th. This represents a $2.92 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.57%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, May 11th. This is a positive change from Apple's previous quarterly dividend of $0.63. View Apple's Dividend History.

Apple shares split on the morning of Monday, June 9th 2014. The 7-1 split was announced on Wednesday, April 23rd 2014. The newly issued shares were issued to shareholders after the market closes on Friday, June 6th 2014. An investor that had 100 shares of Apple stock prior to the split would have 700 shares after the split.

Apple announced that its board has authorized a share buyback program on Tuesday, May 1st 2018, which allows the company to buyback $100,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization allows the company to buy up to 11.9% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback programs are usually a sign that the company's board believes its stock is undervalued.

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) posted its earnings results on Tuesday, May, 1st. The iPhone maker reported $2.73 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $2.69 by $0.04. The iPhone maker earned $61.14 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $60.94 billion. Apple had a net margin of 21.55% and a return on equity of 39.97%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 15.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned $2.10 earnings per share. View Apple's Earnings History.

Apple is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, August, 7th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Apple.

45 equities research analysts have issued twelve-month target prices for Apple's shares. Their forecasts range from $26.00 to $999.00. On average, they expect Apple's share price to reach $207.9333 in the next twelve months. View Analyst Ratings for Apple.

Apple saw a increase in short interest in May. As of May 31st, there was short interest totalling 45,958,599 shares, an increase of 0.9% from the May 15th total of 46,385,494 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 19,805,941 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.3 days. Approximately 0.9% of the shares of the company are short sold.

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Media coverage about AAPL stock has trended somewhat positive this week, Accern reports. Accern scores the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than twenty million news and blog sources in real-time. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Apple earned a media sentiment score of 0.03 on Accern's scale. They also gave media headlines about the iPhone maker an impact score of 44.92 out of 100, indicating that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near future.

Apple's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (6.31%), Northern Trust Corp (1.25%), Legal & General Group Plc (0.46%), Summit Trail Advisors LLC (0.40%), Schwab Charles Investment Management Inc. (0.39%) and Swiss National Bank (0.33%). Company insiders that own Apple stock include Albert Gore Jr, Angela J Ahrendts, Arthur D Levinson, Chris Kondo, Craig Federighi, D Bruce Sewell, Daniel J Riccio, Eduardo H Cue, Jeffrey E Williams, Johny Srouji, Luca Maestri, Philip W Schiller and Timothy D Cook. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Apple.

AAPL stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Magellan Asset Management Ltd, Boston Partners, Swiss National Bank, Northern Trust Corp, Prudential Financial Inc., Legal & General Group Plc, Epoch Investment Partners Inc. and Franklin Resources Inc.. Company insiders that have sold Apple company stock in the last year include Angela J Ahrendts, Arthur D Levinson, Chris Kondo, Craig Federighi, D Bruce Sewell, Daniel J Riccio, Eduardo H Cue, Jeffrey E Williams, Johny Srouji, Luca Maestri, Philip W Schiller and Timothy D Cook. View Insider Buying and Selling for Apple.

AAPL stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Summit Trail Advisors LLC, Russell Investments Group Ltd., SG Americas Securities LLC, Mackay Shields LLC, Harvard Management Co. Inc., Comerica Bank, Achmea Investment Management B.V. and ProShare Advisors LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for Apple.

Shares of AAPL can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of AAPL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $185.69.

Apple has a market capitalization of $958.18 billion and generates $229.23 billion in revenue each year. The iPhone maker earns $48.35 billion in net income (profit) each year or $9.21 on an earnings per share basis. Apple employs 123,000 workers across the globe.

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]