NASDAQ:AAPL - Apple Stock Price, Forecast & News

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

Apple declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, October 30th. Shareholders of record on Monday, November 11th will be given a dividend of $0.77 per share on Thursday, November 14th. This represents a $3.08 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.96%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, November 7th. View Apple's Dividend History.

Shares of Apple split before market open on Monday, June 9th 2014. The 7-1 split was announced on Wednesday, April 23rd 2014. The newly issued shares were payable 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 of Directors has authorized a share repurchase program on Tuesday, April 30th 2019, which allows the company to buyback $75,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization allows the company to repurchase up to 7.6% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are usually an indication that the company's management believes its shares are undervalued.

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) issued its earnings results on Wednesday, October, 30th. The iPhone maker reported $3.03 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $2.84 by $0.19. The iPhone maker had revenue of $64.04 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $62.86 billion. Apple had a net margin of 21.24% and a return on equity of 53.82%. The business's revenue was up 1.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the company earned $2.91 earnings per share. View Apple's Earnings History.

Apple is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, January 28th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Apple.

Apple will be holding an earnings conference call on Tuesday, January 28th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

40 brokerages have issued 12-month price targets for Apple's stock. Their forecasts range from $150.00 to $375.00. On average, they expect Apple's share price to reach $278.39 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 12.8%. View Analyst Price Targets for Apple.

40 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Apple in the last year. There are currently 5 sell ratings, 11 hold ratings and 24 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Apple.

Press coverage about AAPL stock has trended negative this week, InfoTrie reports. InfoTrie scores the sentiment of media coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Apple earned a media sentiment score of -2.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media stories about the iPhone maker a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Apple.

Apple saw a decrease in short interest in December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 45,510,000 shares, a decrease of 10.3% from the December 15th total of 50,750,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 26,330,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1.7 days. Currently, 1.0% of the shares of the company are sold short. View Apple's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Apple include Dell (DELL), HP (HPQ), NCR (NCR), Super Micro Computer (SMCI), Cray (CRAY), 3D Systems (DDD), Stratasys (SSYS), Diebold Nixdorf (DBD), Avid Technology (AVID) and Kopin (KOPN).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Apple investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), Alibaba Group (BABA), Micron Technology (MU), General Electric (GE), Netflix (NFLX), Canopy Growth (CGC), Tesla (TSLA), Walt Disney (DIS), Bank of America (BAC) and Alphabet (GOOG).

Apple's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Johanson Financial Advisors Inc. (0.39%), WELLCOME TRUST LTD THE as trustee of the WELLCOME TRUST (0.07%), Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.04%), Nisa Investment Advisors LLC (0.04%), Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank (0.03%) and Calamos Advisors LLC (0.03%). Company insiders that own Apple stock include Angela J Ahrendts, Arthur D Levinson, Chris Kondo, Craig Federighi, Daniel J Riccio, Deirdre O'brien, 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 PGGM Investments, Tocqueville Asset Management L.P., Meag Munich Ergo Kapitalanlagegesellschaft MBH, Calamos Advisors LLC, Gateway Investment Advisers LLC, Hexavest Inc., Nisa Investment Advisors LLC and DNB Asset Management AS. Company insiders that have sold Apple company stock in the last year include Arthur D Levinson, Chris Kondo, Deirdre O'brien, Jeffrey E Williams, Luca Maestri 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 Johanson Financial Advisors Inc., Artemis Investment Management LLP, Wedge Capital Management L L P NC, Sloy Dahl & Holst LLC, Centre Asset Management LLC, Sonora Investment Management LLC, Hoey Investments Inc. and Vishria Bird Financial Group 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, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of AAPL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $319.24.

Apple has a market capitalization of $1.40 trillion and generates $260.17 billion in revenue each year. The iPhone maker earns $55.26 billion in net income (profit) each year or $11.89 on an earnings per share basis. Apple employs 137,000 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Apple.

The official website for Apple is http://www.apple.com/.

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]