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. Stockholders of record on Monday, May 14th will be paid a dividend of $0.73 per share on Thursday, May 17th. This represents a $2.92 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.55%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, May 11th. This is an increase from Apple's previous quarterly dividend of $0.63. View Apple's Dividend History.

Apple's stock 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 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 has initiated a stock repurchase program on Tuesday, May 1st 2018, which permits the company to repurchase $100,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to repurchase up to 11.9% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are generally a sign that the company's leadership believes its stock is undervalued.

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) released its earnings results on Tuesday, May, 1st. The iPhone maker reported $2.73 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Zacks' 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 return on equity of 39.97% and a net margin of 21.55%. The business's revenue was up 15.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the firm posted $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.

46 brokerages have issued 1 year price objectives for Apple's stock. Their predictions range from $26.00 to $999.00. On average, they expect Apple's stock price to reach $205.9349 in the next twelve months. View Analyst Ratings for Apple.

Apple saw a decline in short interest in May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totalling 46,385,494 shares, a decline of 8.9% from the April 30th total of 50,912,078 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 36,664,932 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 1.3 days. Approximately 0.9% of the company's stock are short sold.

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Media coverage about AAPL stock has trended positive this week, according to Accern Sentiment Analysis. Accern rates the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than 20 million blog and news sources in real time. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Apple earned a news impact score of 0.46 on Accern's scale. They also assigned press coverage about the iPhone maker an impact score of 46.14 out of 100, meaning that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near future.

Apple's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail 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 bought 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 $188.58.

Apple has a market capitalization of $956.86 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]