Apple Stock Forecast, Price & News

32 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Apple in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating, 5 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 is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, November 4th 2021.
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Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) announced its earnings results on Monday, July, 26th. The iPhone maker reported $1.30 EPS for the quarter, topping the Zacks' consensus estimate of $1.01 by $0.29. The iPhone maker had revenue of $81.40 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $73.48 billion. Apple had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 131.01% and a net margin of 25.00%. The business's quarterly revenue was up 36.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $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. Since then, AAPL stock has increased by 112.1% and is now trading at $146.06.
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Apple announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, July 27th. Investors of record on Monday, August 9th will be paid a dividend of $0.22 per share on Thursday, August 12th. This represents a $0.88 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.60%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, August 6th.
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Apple pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.59%. The dividend payout ratio of Apple is 26.83%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, Apple will have a dividend payout ratio of 15.41% next year. This indicates that Apple will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Apple's stock split on Monday, August 31st 2020. The 4-1 split was announced on Thursday, July 30th 2020. The newly issued shares were issued to shareholders after the market closes 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.

32 brokers have issued 1 year target prices for Apple's shares. Their forecasts range from $90.00 to $185.00. On average, they expect Apple's stock price to reach $161.75 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 10.7% 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), Stratasys (SSYS), Avid Technology (AVID), Diebold Nixdorf (DBD) 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 many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Vanguard Group Inc. (7.65%), State Street Corp (3.77%), FMR LLC (2.12%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.54%), Northern Trust Corp (1.17%) and Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (1.17%). Company insiders that own Apple stock include Arthur D Levinson, Chris Kondo, Deirdre O'brien, Jeffrey E Williams, Jeffrey E Williams, Katherine L Adams, 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 Susquehanna International Group LLP, Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD, Bank of Montreal Can, Jennison Associates LLC, Northern Trust Corp, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc., Credit Suisse AG, and SG Americas Securities LLC. 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 bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Amundi, Vanguard Group Inc., Liberty Wealth Management LLC, Macquarie Group Ltd., Simplex Trading LLC, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Jefferies Group LLC, and FMR LLC.
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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 $146.06.

Apple has a market capitalization of $2.41 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, SourceDNA, 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].