NASDAQ:AAPLApple Stock Price, Forecast & News

Apple's stock was trading at $275.43 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus (COVID-19) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, AAPL shares have increased by 39.0% and is now trading at $382.73. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

43 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Apple in the last year. There are currently 3 sell ratings, 12 hold ratings and 28 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View analyst ratings for Apple.

Apple is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, July 30th 2020. View our earnings forecast for Apple.

Apple will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, July 30th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, April, 30th. The iPhone maker reported $2.55 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $2.26 by $0.29. The iPhone maker had revenue of $58.31 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $54.64 billion. Apple had a return on equity of 64.49% and a net margin of 21.35%. The business's revenue was up .5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $2.46 EPS. View Apple's earnings history.

Apple declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, April 30th. Stockholders of record on Monday, May 11th will be given a dividend of $0.82 per share on Thursday, May 14th. This represents a $3.28 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.86%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, May 8th. This is an increase from Apple's previous quarterly dividend of $0.77. View Apple's dividend history.

Shares of Apple split on the morning of Monday, June 9th 2014. The 7-1 split was announced on Wednesday, April 23rd 2014. The newly created shares were issued to shareholders after the closing bell 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 declared that its Board of Directors has initiated a stock buyback plan on Tuesday, April 30th 2019, which authorizes the company to buyback $75,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization authorizes the company to repurchase up to 7.6% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback plans are often an indication that the company's leadership believes its stock is undervalued.

43 brokers have issued 1-year target prices for Apple's stock. Their forecasts range from $155.00 to $425.00. On average, they anticipate Apple's stock price to reach $328.32 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 14.2%. View analysts' price targets for Apple.

Media coverage about AAPL stock has trended negative recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. InfoTrie rates the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Apple earned a news sentiment score of -2.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media headlines about the iPhone maker a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next several days. View the latest news about Apple.

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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), Micron Technology (MU), General Electric (GE), Netflix (NFLX), Tesla (TSLA), Walt Disney (DIS), Canopy Growth (CGC), AT&T (T) and Alphabet (GOOG).

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

Apple's stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Envestnet Asset Management Inc. (0.04%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.02%), DNB Asset Management AS (0.01%), Independent Investors Inc. (0.01%), Park National Corp OH (0.01%) and Mount Yale Investment Advisors LLC (0.00%). Company insiders that own Apple stock include Angela J Ahrendts, Arthur D Levinson, Chris Kondo, Craig Federighi, Deirdre O'brien, Jeffrey E Williams, Johny Srouji, Luca Maestri 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 HNP Capital LLC, Municipal Employees Retirement System of Michigan, Cacti Asset Management LLC, Thomasville National Bank, Legacy Capital Partners Inc., 6 Meridian, Cullinan Associates Inc., and Nexus Investment Management ULC. 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 activity for Apple.

AAPL stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including DNB Asset Management AS, Envestnet Asset Management Inc., Canandaigua National Corp, Platte River Wealth Advisors LLC, N.E.W. Advisory Services LLC, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Mount Yale Investment Advisors LLC, and Legacy Private Trust Co.. View insider buying and selling activity 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 $382.73.

Apple has a market capitalization of $1.66 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.

The official website for Apple is 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]