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. Investors 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 1.56%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend 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 on the morning of Monday, June 9th 2014. The 7-1 split was announced on Wednesday, April 23rd 2014. The newly minted 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 has authorized a stock buyback program 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 repurchase up to 11.9% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback programs are typically a sign that the company's management believes its shares are undervalued.

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) issued its earnings results on Tuesday, May, 1st. The iPhone maker reported $2.73 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $2.69 by $0.04. The iPhone maker had revenue of $61.14 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $60.94 billion. Apple had a net margin of 21.55% and a return on equity of 39.97%. Apple's revenue was up 15.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the firm posted $2.10 EPS. 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.

47 equities research analysts have issued twelve-month target prices for Apple's shares. Their predictions range from $26.00 to $999.00. On average, they expect Apple's stock price to reach $204.80 in the next year. View Analyst Ratings for Apple.

Apple saw a drop in short interest in April. As of April 30th, there was short interest totalling 50,912,078 shares, a drop of 9.4% from the April 13th total of 56,206,108 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 33,978,567 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.5 days. Currently, 1.0% of the shares of the stock are short sold.

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Headlines about AAPL stock have trended somewhat positive this week, according to Accern Sentiment. The research group rates the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than twenty million news and blog sources in real time. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Apple earned a media sentiment score of 0.05 on Accern's scale. They also gave news headlines about the iPhone maker an impact score of 46.02 out of 100, indicating that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the immediate future.

Apple's stock is owned by a number of 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 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 $187.63.

Apple has a market capitalization of $945.34 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]