Apple Stock Forecast, Price & News

38 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Apple in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 8 hold ratings and 28 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "buy" Apple stock.
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Apple is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, April 28th 2021.
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Apple will be holding an earnings conference call on Wednesday, April 28th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) released its earnings results on Tuesday, January, 26th. The iPhone maker reported $1.68 EPS for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.41 by $0.27. The iPhone maker had revenue of $111.40 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $103.24 billion. Apple had a net margin of 20.91% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 75.15%. Apple's revenue for the quarter was up 21.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the business earned $1.25 earnings per share.
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Apple's stock was trading at $68.8575 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 (Coronavirus) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, AAPL stock has increased by 91.8% and is now trading at $132.07.
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Apple declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, January 27th. Shareholders of record on Monday, February 8th will be paid a dividend of $0.205 per share on Thursday, February 11th. This represents a $0.82 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.62%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, February 5th.
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Apple pays an annual dividend of $0.82 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.62%. 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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Apple shares split on the morning of Monday, August 31st 2020. The 4-1 split was announced on Thursday, July 30th 2020. The newly issued 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.

Apple announced that its Board of Directors has initiated a share buyback plan on Tuesday, April 30th 2019, which permits the company to buyback $75,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization permits the company to repurchase up to 7.6% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback plans are typically an indication that the company's board believes its stock is undervalued.

38 brokers have issued 1 year target prices for Apple's shares. Their forecasts range from $62.50 to $175.00. On average, they anticipate Apple's stock price to reach $137.19 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 3.9% 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), Diebold Nixdorf (DBD), Avid Technology (AVID) 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 retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Calamos Advisors LLC (0.03%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.02%), Huntington National Bank (0.01%), Pacer Advisors Inc. (0.01%), Park National Corp OH (0.01%) and Neville Rodie & Shaw Inc. (0.00%). 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 Thomasville National Bank, Pacer Advisors Inc., State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Hexavest Inc., Huntington National Bank, M&R Capital Management Inc., Wedge Capital Management L L P NC, and Neville Rodie & Shaw Inc.. 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 Everence Capital Management Inc., TrimTabs Asset Management LLC, Fulton Breakefield Broenniman LLC, Parcion Private Wealth LLC, Paragon Wealth Strategies LLC, Calamos Wealth Management LLC, Calamos Advisors LLC, and KMG Fiduciary Partners 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 $132.07.

Apple has a market capitalization of $2.22 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]