What Should You Know About Apple Before Investing?

Shares of Technology sector company Apple moved 0.4% today, and are now trading at a price of $171.49. The large-cap stock's daily volume was 9,084,247 compared to its average volume of 59,336,135. The S&P 500 index returned a 1.0% performance.

Apple Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets smartphones, personal computers, tablets, wearables, and accessories worldwide. The company is based in Cupertino and has 164,000 full time employees. Its market capitalization is $2,681,108,955,136. Apple currently offers its equity investors a dividend that yields 0.5% per year.

37 analysts are following Apple and have set target prices ranging from $140.52 to $226.34 per share. On average, they have given the company a rating of buy. At today's prices, AAPL is trading -8.65% away from its average analyst target price of $187.73 per share.

Over the last year, AAPL's share price has increased by 19.0%, which represents a difference of 6.0% when compared to the S&P 500. The stock's 52 week high is $198.23 per share whereas its 52 week low is $124.17. With average free cash flows of $83.63 Billion that have been growing at an average rate of 7.9% over the last 6 years, Apple is in a position to continue its strong stock performance trend.

Date Reported Cash Flow from Operations ($ k) Capital expenditures ($ k) Free Cash Flow ($ k) YoY Growth (%)
2023 113,072,000 12,085,000 100,987,000 -9.38
2022 122,151,000 10,708,000 111,443,000 19.89
2021 104,038,000 11,085,000 92,953,000 26.7
2020 80,674,000 7,309,000 73,365,000 24.57
2019 69,391,000 10,495,000 58,896,000 -8.15
2018 77,434,000 13,313,000 64,121,000
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