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 paid a dividend of $0.73 per share on Thursday, May 17th. This represents a $2.92 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.55%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, May 11th. This is a boost 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 created shares were distributed 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 has approved a stock buyback plan on Tuesday, May 1st 2018, which authorizes the company to buyback $100,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization authorizes the company to purchase up to 11.9% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback plans are usually an indication that the company's board of directors believes its shares are undervalued.

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) released its earnings results on Tuesday, May, 1st. The iPhone maker reported $2.73 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $2.69 by $0.04. The iPhone maker had revenue of $61.14 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $60.94 billion. Apple had a net margin of 21.55% and a return on equity of 39.97%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 15.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the company 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 brokers have issued 1 year target prices for Apple's shares. Their predictions range from $26.00 to $999.00. On average, they anticipate Apple's share price to reach $205.9349 in the next year. View Analyst Ratings for Apple.

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

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Media coverage about AAPL stock has been trending somewhat positive this week, according to Accern Sentiment. The research group identifies positive and negative media coverage by analyzing more than 20 million news and blog sources. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Apple earned a coverage optimism score of 0.16 on Accern's scale. They also assigned news articles about the iPhone maker an impact score of 45.66 out of 100, meaning that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next few days.

Apple's stock is owned by many different 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 purchased 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 $954.68 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]