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 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.53%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, May 11th. This is a positive change from Apple's previous quarterly dividend of $0.63. View Apple's Dividend History.

Apple's stock split before market open on 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 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 plan on Tuesday, May 1st 2018, which permits the company to repurchase $100,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to reacquire up to 11.9% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase plans are often an indication that the company's leadership believes its shares are undervalued.

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) released its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, May, 1st. The iPhone maker reported $2.73 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the Zacks' consensus estimate of $2.69 by $0.04. The iPhone maker earned $61.14 billion during 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 revenue was up 15.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the firm earned $2.10 earnings per share. View Apple's Earnings History.

Apple is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, July, 31st 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Apple.

45 brokerages have issued 12-month price targets for Apple's stock. Their predictions range from $26.00 to $999.00. On average, they anticipate Apple's stock price to reach $208.8619 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 9.2% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Ratings for Apple.

45 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Apple in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 15 hold ratings, 27 buy ratings and 2 strong buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy."

Apple saw a drop in short interest in the month of June. As of June 29th, there was short interest totalling 38,080,068 shares, a drop of 15.9% from the June 15th total of 45,270,714 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 24,684,978 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1.5 days. Approximately 0.8% of the company's stock are short sold. View Apple's Current Options Chain.

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News articles about AAPL stock have trended positive recently, according to Accern Sentiment. The research firm identifies positive and negative media coverage by monitoring more than 20 million news and blog sources in real time. 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 news impact score of 0.43 on Accern's scale. They also assigned news stories about the iPhone maker an impact score of 45.66 out of 100, indicating 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 institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Fisher Asset Management LLC (0.24%), Swedbank (0.12%), Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.05%), NN Investment Partners Holdings N.V. (0.04%), Gulf International Bank UK Ltd (0.03%) and Hexavest Inc. (0.03%). 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 Swedbank, Columbia Partners L L C Investment Management, Gateway Investment Advisers LLC, Atalanta Sosnoff Capital LLC, NN Investment Partners Holdings N.V., Mckinley Capital Management LLC Delaware, Fjarde AP Fonden Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund and Polaris Greystone Financial Group LLC. 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 Fisher Asset Management LLC, Hexavest Inc., State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Addenda Capital Inc., Addenda Capital Inc., IFM Investors Pty Ltd, Stonebridge Capital Management Inc. and Hartwell J M Limited Partnership. 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 $191.33.

Apple has a market capitalization of $970.81 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]