Here's a Quick Look Into the Fundamentals of Apple Stock

By Harris Dyer • Tuesday, November 14 12:31 • Permanent Link

Apple marked a 1.2% change today, compared to 2.0% for the S&P 500. Is it a good value at today's price of $187.03? Only an in-depth analysis can answer that question, but here are some facts that can give you an idea:

Apple Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets smartphones, personal computers, tablets, wearables, and accessories worldwide.
Apple belongs to the Technology sector, which has an average price to earnings (P/E) ratio of 27.16 and an average price to book (P/B) of 6.23
The company's P/B ratio is 46.79
Apple has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 30.5 based on its trailing 12 month price to earnings (EPS) of $6.14 per share
Its forward P/E ratio is 26.1, based on its forward earnings per share (EPS) of $7.16
AAPL has a Price to Earnings Growth (PEG) ratio of 4.58, which shows the company is overvalued when we factor growth into the price to earnings calculus.
Over the last four years, Apple has averaged free cash flows of $83.63 Billion, which on average grew 7.9%
AAPL's gross profit margins have averaged 40.5 % over the last four years and during this time they had a growth rate of 2.4 % and a coefficient of variability of 10.7 %.
Apple has moved 25.0% over the last year compared to 13.0% for the S&P 500 -- a difference of 12.0%
AAPL has an average analyst rating of buy and is -5.45% away from its mean target price of $197.8 per share

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