Apple Stock Forecast, Price & News

34 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Apple in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 7 hold ratings and 26 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "buy" Apple stock.
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Apple saw a increase in short interest during the month of April. As of April 15th, there was short interest totaling 127,940,000 shares, an increase of 26.1% from the March 31st total of 101,480,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 104,150,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 1.2 days.
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Apple is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, July 29th 2021.
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Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) released its earnings results on Tuesday, April, 27th. The iPhone maker reported $1.40 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.99 by $0.41. The iPhone maker earned $89.58 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $76.84 billion. Apple had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 75.15% and a net margin of 20.91%. The business's quarterly revenue was up 53.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the company earned $0.64 EPS.
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Apple's stock was trading at $68.8575 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, AAPL stock has increased by 88.4% and is now trading at $129.74.
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Apple announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, April 28th. Shareholders of record on Monday, May 10th will be given a dividend of $0.22 per share on Thursday, May 13th. This represents a $0.88 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.68%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, May 7th. This is a positive change from Apple's previous quarterly dividend of $0.21.
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Apple pays an annual dividend of $0.82 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.64%. Apple has been increasing its dividend for 8 consecutive years, indicating the company has a new, but growing committment to grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio of Apple is 25.00%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, Apple will have a dividend payout ratio of 18.72% next year. This indicates that Apple will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Shares of Apple split on Monday, August 31st 2020. The 4-1 split was announced on Thursday, July 30th 2020. The newly minted shares were payable to shareholders after the closing bell on Friday, August 28th 2020. An investor that had 100 shares of Apple stock prior to the split would have 400 shares after the split.

34 analysts have issued 1 year price objectives for Apple's shares. Their forecasts range from $66.60 to $185.00. On average, they anticipate Apple's stock price to reach $149.15 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 15.0% from the stock's current price.
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11,001 employees have rated Apple CEO Tim Cook on Glassdoor.com. Tim Cook has an approval rating of 94% among Apple's employees. This puts Tim Cook in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Some companies that are related to Apple include Dell Technologies (DELL), HP (HPQ), NCR (NCR), 3D Systems (DDD), Avid Technology (AVID), Diebold Nixdorf (DBD), Stratasys (SSYS) and Kopin (KOPN).
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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), Tesla (TSLA), Micron Technology (MU), Netflix (NFLX), General Electric (GE), The Walt Disney (DIS), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), AT&T (T) and The Boeing (BA).

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

Apple's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Fisher Asset Management LLC (0.37%), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.36%), Alliancebernstein L.P. (0.23%), Rhumbline Advisers (0.17%), The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company (0.15%) and New York State Teachers Retirement System (0.12%). Company insiders that own Apple stock include Arthur D Levinson, Chris Kondo, Deirdre O'brien, Jeffrey E Williams, Katherine L Adams, Luca Maestri and Timothy D Cook.
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AAPL stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Los Angeles Capital Management LLC, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc., Rhumbline Advisers, Alliancebernstein L.P., New York State Teachers Retirement System, The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company , Chevy Chase Trust Holdings Inc., and WELLCOME TRUST LTD THE as trustee of the WELLCOME TRUST. Company insiders that have sold Apple company stock in the last year include Chris Kondo, Deirdre O'brien, Jeffrey E Williams, Katherine L Adams, Luca Maestri, and Timothy D Cook.
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AAPL stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Oak Ridge Investments LLC, Parnassus Investments CA, Bank of Nova Scotia, Fisher Asset Management LLC, Wesbanco Bank Inc., MD Financial Management Inc., Wilkinson Global Asset Management LLC, and Artemis Investment Management LLP.
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Shares of AAPL can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of AAPL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $129.74.

Apple has a market capitalization of $2.17 trillion and generates $274.52 billion in revenue each year. The iPhone maker earns $57.41 billion in net income (profit) each year or $3.28 on an earnings per share basis.

Apple employs 147,000 workers across the globe.

The following companies are subsidiares of Apple: Acunu, Akonia Holographics, AlgoTrim, Anobit Technologies, Apple Canada Inc., Apple Computer Trading (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., Apple Distribution International Limited, Apple Europe Limited, Apple France, Apple GmbH, Apple Japan Inc., Apple Operations Europe Limited, Apple Operations International Limited, Apple Operations Limited, Apple Pty Limited, Apple Sales International Limited, Apple Value Services LLC, Asaii Inc, AuthenTec, Beats Electronics, Beddit, Booklamp, Braeburn Capital Inc., BroadMap, Buddybuild, Burstly, Camerai, Catch.com, Chomp, Color Labs, Concept.io, Cue, DataTiger, Dialog Semiconductor, Drive.ai, Dryft, Embark1, Emotient, Fleetsmith, Flyby Media, FoundationDB, IKinema LTD, InVisage Technologies, Inductiv, Intel's smartphone modem business, Intrinsity, Lala, Laserlike, LearnSprout, LegbaCore, Locationary, MOG, Mapsense, Matcha, Mobeewave, Next Issue Media, NextVR, Novauris, Particle, Placebase, Platoon, Polar Rose, Poly9, Pop Up Archive, PowerSchool, PowerbyProxi, PrimeSense, Privaris, Prss, PullString, Quattro Wireless, Raycer Graphics, Scout FM, Semetric, SensoMotoric Instruments (SMI), Shazam, Silk Labs, Siri, SnappyLabs, Spaces, Spectral Edge, Spektral, Spotsetter, Stamplay, Texture by Next Issue, The Dark Sky Company, Topsy Labs, Tueo Health, Turi, Union Bay Networks, Vilynx, VocalIQ, Voysis, Vrvana, WiFiSLAM, Xnor.ai, imsense, indoor.io, metaio, and tuplejump.

Apple was founded in 1976.

The official website for Apple is www.apple.com.

Apple is headquartered at ONE APPLE PARK WAY, CUPERTINO CA, 95014.

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]