Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) on Friday, plunged -0.68% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $280.7. Within the past 52 weeks, AAPL’s price has moved between $169.21 and $288.62.
Technology Sector giant saw their annual sales surged by 17.91% over the last five years. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 10.48%. With a float of $14.76 billion, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $14.77 billion.
Apple Inc (AAPL) Insider Activity
Observing investor behavior towards Consumer Electronics industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Apple Inc is 0.10%, while institutional ownership is 64.88%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Nov 07 ’25, was worth 1,017,655. In this transaction Principal Accounting Officer of this company sold 3,752 shares at a rate of $271.23, taking the stock ownership to the 15,098 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Oct 16 ’25, when Company’s Senior Vice President, CFO sold 4,199 for $247.39, making the entire transaction worth $1,038,787. This insider now owns 8,765 shares in total.
Apple Inc (AAPL) Earnings and Forecasts
As on 12/31/2024, Multinational firm has announced its last quarter scores, in which it reported 2.4 earnings per share (EPS) for the period topping the consensus outlook (set at 2.34) by 0.06. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 1.84 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 10.48% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 10.34% during the next five years compared to 17.91% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) Trading Performance Indicators
Apple Inc (AAPL) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. A quick ratio of 0.86 was reported for the most recent quarter. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 9.90. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 41.71.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 7.46, a number that is poised to hit 2.67 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 9.11 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Apple Inc (AAPL)
Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [Apple Inc, AAPL], we can find that recorded value of 47.01 million was lower than the volume posted last year of 55.17 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 63.49%.
During the past 100 days, Apple Inc’s (AAPL) raw stochastic average was set at 88.71%, which indicates a significant increase from 57.77% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 5.56 in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 4.69 volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $265.59, while its 200-day Moving Average is $228.15. Now, the first resistance to watch is $280.60. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $282.41. The third major resistance level sits at $283.69. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $277.51, it is likely to go to the next support level at $276.23. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $274.42.
Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 4119.35 billion based on 14,776,353K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 416,161 M and income totals 112,010 M. The company made 102,466 M in profit during its latest quarter, and 27,466 M in sales during its previous quarter.
