Apple (AAPL) Stock: Price, Trend, Options & Financials
Apple's price regime, relative strength, unusual-options history, curated-manager ownership and filed fundamentals — joined into one dated stock intelligence page.
What the evidence says now
AAPL closed at $336.67 on Oct 7, 2026. The price is +4.5% from its 50-day average and +16.1% from its 200-day average, which places it in the rules-based “established uptrend” regime. The relative-strength check: over three months the stock returned +6.5%, beating SPY by 3.1%. It remains 2.5% below its 52-week high.
Sources, methodology & freshnessSplit-adjusted OHLCV, end-of-day options chains, SEC 13F filings and EDGAR XBRL company facts · Price/options daily; 13F quarterly; Financials each earnings seasonData as of 2026-10-07 · Open ↓Close ↑
The close is +4.5% from its 50-day average and +16.1% from its 200-day average. Over three months, AAPL returned +6.5% versus +3.4% for SPY.
- vs 50-day
- +4.5%
- vs 200-day
- +16.1%
- From 52W high
- -2.5%
Descriptive, not predictive. “Uptrend” is a rules-based reading of the close and moving averages; it is not a rating, price target or recommendation.
Price & regime
One year of daily price and volume
252 split-adjusted sessions · candles above, share volume below
Unusual options — attention, not intent
AAPL appeared in a UOA top-30 list on 33 of 93 archived scanner sessions: 21 call-side, 12 put-side and 0 on both lists. The latest session did not place it in either top 30. Its larger composite score was -0.21, below the 1.5 “strong” threshold. That is repeated options attention, not proof of bullish trade initiation.
| Recent flag | Call rank | Put rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | — | #7 |
| 2026-08-28 | — | #2 |
| 2026-08-25 | #11 | — |
| 2026-08-21 | #2 | — |
| 2026-08-20 | #15 | — |
| 2026-08-19 | — | #22 |
| 2026-08-18 | — | #10 |
| 2026-08-11 | #10 | — |
| 2026-08-10 | #10 | — |
| 2026-07-31 | #1 | — |
Latest chain snapshot
2026-10-06Strong-signature cutoff: 1.5. Current OTM volume/OI: 0.068 calls, 0.058 puts.
Researched catalyst context
2026-09-10Sep 10: Apple rose 3.5% to $326.57 on 68.5M shares (1.5x average) in the first full session after its Sep 9 event, where it unveiled the foldable iPhone Duo at $1,999 (available Oct 23) and the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max at $1,199 and $1,299 (available Sep 18). TD Cowen reiterated Buy with a $400 target the same morning.
Apple is the largest consumer hardware company and the iPhone is most of its revenue, so a new form factor priced below where analysts expected is a volume-versus-margin question rather than a clear positive. The stock had closed down 0.2% on event day itself and sits 4.0% below its Jul 28 closing high of $340.08. Pre-orders open Sep 12 for the 18 Pro line and Oct 16 for the Duo; the next hard data point is fiscal Q4 results in late October, where the $100 price increase on the Pro line and memory cost pressure will show up in hardware gross margin.
Source: Apple Newsroom, Sep 9, 2026: Apple unveils iPhone Duo ↗Curated-manager ownership
3 of the 20 managers in the project's curated 13F set reported a long Apple position in their latest filing, worth $66.0B in aggregate at each filing's reported value. This is a focused manager panel, not the complete institutional holder list.
| Fund / manager | Position value | Portfolio | Shares | Quarter change | Report date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Berkshire Hathaway Warren Buffett · AAPL | $66.0B | 22.04% | 227.92M | 0.0% unchanged | 2026-06-30 |
Himalaya Capital Li Lu · AAPL | $32M | 0.86% | 110,600 | 0.0% unchanged | 2026-06-30 |
Baron Capital Group Ron Baron · AAPL | $118,059 | 0.00% | 408 | — new | 2026-06-30 |
Filed fundamentals — latest snapshot
Go deeper into the filings
The dedicated Financials dashboard carries the complete quarterly and annual income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow history, with derived figures flagged and every XBRL concept disclosed.
Open AAPL Financials →How AAPL trades — the working manual
Apple combines a global installed base of devices with services revenue and a tightly controlled hardware, software and distribution ecosystem. For the stock, the recurring questions are whether device demand can sustain the installed base, whether services can improve the revenue mix, and how much of the per-share outcome comes from operations versus capital returns.
What can move the tape
- 01iPhone and device demand, upgrade cycles and the mix of premium products.
- 02Services growth, installed-base monetization and the resulting gross-margin mix.
- 03Operating cash flow, capital returns and the pace at which repurchases reduce the share count.
- 04Relative strength around product launches, earnings and changes in consumer demand expectations.
What can fool the read
- 01Long device replacement cycles can make growth depend on a small number of product launches.
- 02App-store, search-distribution and platform regulation can pressure high-margin economics.
- 03Supply-chain concentration and geopolitical exposure can affect production or regional demand.
- 04Buybacks support per-share results but do not substitute for durable revenue growth.
Apple triggered 1 issuer-level flag in the committed 2026-04-01–2026-10-07 archive. The latest was AAPL on 2026-09-10: 1.5× its 30-day average volume while the stock moved +3.1% that session.
Not published yet. The local archive has 1 reported AAPL events—too few for a defensible gap-and-drift study. This missing block is an explicit indexing blocker.
Source map & freshness
| Block | What it uses | Vintage | Raw data |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | SEC issuer + primary security mapping | 2026-10-05 | JSON ↓ |
| Price & trend | Split-adjusted daily OHLCV + SPY comparison | 2026-10-07 | CSV ↓ |
| Options | End-of-day chain anomaly ranks | 2026-10-06 | Premium → |
| Ownership | Latest filings from 20 curated 13F managers | 2026-10-07 | Tool → |
| Financials | SEC EDGAR XBRL company facts | 2026-08-27 | JSON ↓ |
| Joined profile | The exact contract rendered by this page | 2026-10-07 | JSON ↓ |
AAPL stock questions
Is AAPL stock in an uptrend?+
AAPL is classified in the “established uptrend” regime as of 2026-10-07: the close is +4.5% from its 50-day average and +16.1% from its 200-day average. This describes the current tape. It is not a forecast.
What does unusual options activity in AAPL mean?+
Apple's OTM option chain produced an outlier relative to the scanner universe on at least one archived session. Call-side and put-side labels identify which book produced the signature; end-of-day chain data does not identify buyers, sellers, institutions or spread legs.
Are the AAPL 13F holdings current?+
No. 13F filings are delayed quarter-end snapshots and cover only the curated managers in this project. They are useful for documented ownership changes, not real-time positioning or complete institutional ownership.
Where are AAPL's income statement and cash flow?+
The dedicated AAPL Financials page contains the full quarterly and annual income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow history parsed from SEC EDGAR XBRL. This stock page carries only the latest filed snapshot.
Why is there no AAPL earnings-move base rate yet?+
The committed earnings archive does not yet contain enough reported events for a defensible company-level reaction study. The page leaves that block unpublished instead of presenting a tiny sample as a reliable base rate.