9.08% percent quarterly performance for Apple Inc (AAPL) is not indicative of the underlying story

On Friday, Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) was 1.27% up from the session before settling in for the closing price of $241.53. A 52-week range for AAPL has been $164.07 – $260.10.

Over the past five-year period, the growth rate of yearbook sales for the company of the Technology sector was 9.18%. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at 20.48%. With a float of $15.00 billion, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $15.04 billion.

Considering the fact that the conglomerate employs 164000 people, you should pay attention to its efficiency factor. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 46.52%, operating margin of 31.76%, and the pretax margin is 31.77%.

Apple Inc (AAPL) Insider Activity

Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward Apple Inc stocks. The insider ownership of Apple Inc is 0.11%, while institutional ownership is 63.59%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Feb 03 ’25, was worth 343,147. In this transaction Director of this company sold 1,516 shares at a rate of $226.35, taking the stock ownership to the 4,159,576 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Feb 03 ’25, when Company’s Director proposed sale 1,516 for $226.35, making the entire transaction worth $343,147.

Apple Inc (AAPL) Earnings and Forecasts

Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 1.5 per share during the current fiscal year.

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 20.48% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 13.95% during the next five years compared to 15.41% growth over the previous five years of trading.

Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) Trading Performance Indicators

You can see what Apple Inc (AAPL) is doing with its current performance indicators. In the most recent quarter, the stock posted a quick ratio of 0.88. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 9.28. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 37.38.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 6.30, a number that is poised to hit 1.62 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 8.20 in one year’s time.

Technical Analysis of Apple Inc (AAPL)

Compared to the last year’s volume of 55.14 million, its volume of 45.32 million showed lagged in the last five days. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 80.69%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 6.09.

During the past 100 days, Apple Inc’s (AAPL) raw stochastic average was set at 61.94%, which indicates a significant decrease from 87.95% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 28.91% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 22.09% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $240.51, while its 200-day Moving Average is $222.96. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $246.44 in the near term. At $248.27, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $251.00. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $241.88, it is likely to go to the next support level at $239.15. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $237.32.

Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) Key Stats

There are 15,022,073K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 3674.41 billion. As of now, sales total 391,035 M while income totals 93,736 M. Its latest quarter income was 124,300 M while its last quarter net income were 36,330 M.