What Are the Fundamentals Of AAPL?

By Naomi Wentworth • Thursday, January 02 15:11 • Permanent Link

Apple logged a -3.0% change during today's afternoon session, and is now trading at a price of $242.82 per share. The S&P 500 index moved -0.0%. AAPL's trading volume is 40,047,155 compared to the stock's average volume of 43,614,953.

Apple trades -1.63% away from its average analyst target price of $246.85 per share. The 42 analysts following the stock have set target prices ranging from $184.0 to $325.0, and on average have given Apple a rating of buy.

If you are considering an investment in AAPL, you'll want to know the following:

Apple's current price is 840.4% above its Graham number of $25.82, which implies that at its current valuation it does not offer a margin of safety
Apple has moved 37.7% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 25.4%
Based on its trailing earnings per share of 6.09, Apple has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 39.9 while the S&P 500 average is 29.3
AAPL has a forward P/E ratio of 29.2 based on its forward 12 month price to earnings (EPS) of $8.31 per share
Its Price to Book (P/B) ratio is 64.46 compared to its sector average of 3.91
Apple Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets smartphones, personal computers, tablets, wearables, and accessories worldwide.
Based in Cupertino, the company has 164,000 full time employees and a market cap of $3.67 Trillion. Apple currently returns an annual dividend yield of 0.4%.

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