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Apple Inc is a consumer electronics business based in the US. Apple shares (AAPL) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Apple employs 147,000 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$294.1 billion.
Since the stock market crash in March caused by coronavirus, Apple's share price has had significant negative movement.
Its last market close was USD$120.99, which is 61.35% down on its pre-crash value of USD$313.05 and 75.73% down on the lowest point reached during the March crash when the shares fell as low as USD$212.61.
If you had bought USD$1,000 worth of Apple shares at the start of February 2020, those shares would have been worth USD$726.96 at the bottom of the March crash, and if you held on to them, then as of the last market close they'd be worth USD$392.01.
Latest market close | USD$120.99 |
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52-week range | USD$52.7436 - USD$144.8735 |
50-day moving average | USD$132.5945 |
200-day moving average | USD$123.0726 |
Wall St. target price | USD$151.75 |
PE ratio | 33.9354 |
Dividend yield | USD$0.807 (0.63%) |
Earnings per share (TTM) | USD$3.687 |
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Historical closes compared with the last close of $120.99
1 week (2021-02-26) | -0.22% |
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1 month (2021-02-08) | -11.63% |
3 months (2020-12-07) | -2.23% |
6 months (2020-09-04) | 0.02% |
1 year (2020-03-06) | -58.14% |
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2 years (2019-03-07) | -29.86% |
3 years (2018-03-07) | -30.87% |
5 years (2016-03-07) | 18.77% |
Valuing Apple stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Apple's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Apple's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 34x. In other words, Apple shares trade at around 34x recent earnings.
That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.
Apple's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 2.6871. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Apple's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Apple's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$85.2 billion.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Apple's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
Revenue TTM | USD$294.1 billion |
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Operating margin TTM | 25.25% |
Gross profit TTM | USD$105 billion |
Return on assets TTM | 13.36% |
Return on equity TTM | 82.09% |
Profit margin | 21.74% |
Book value | $3.936 |
Market capitalisation | USD$2.1 trillion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
There are currently 88.3 million Apple shares held short by investors – that's known as Apple's "short interest". This figure is 3.8% down from 91.9 million last month.
There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Apple shares can be evaluated.
Apple's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Apple shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Apple shares traded daily (recently around 100.4 million). Apple's SIR currently stands at 0.88. In other words for every 100,000 Apple shares traded daily on the market, roughly 880 shares are currently held short.
However Apple's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Apple shares, or, against the total number of tradable Apple shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Apple's short interest could be expressed as 0.01% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Apple shares in existence, roughly 10 shares are currently held short) or 0.0053% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Apple shares, roughly 5 shares are currently held short).
Such a low SIR usually points to an optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Apple.
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