AppLovin (APP) Stock: Price, Trend, Options & Financials
AppLovin's price regime, relative strength, unusual-options and unusual-volume history, curated-manager ownership and filed fundamentals — joined into one dated stock intelligence page.
What the evidence says now
APP closed at $280.12 on Oct 8, 2026. The price is -12.7% from its 50-day average and -37.5% from its 200-day average, which places it in the rules-based “established downtrend” regime. The relative-strength check: over three months the stock returned -44.8%, trailing SPY by 47.3%. It remains 62.0% 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 2026-10-08 · Open ↓Close ↑
The close is -12.7% from its 50-day average and -37.5% from its 200-day average. Over three months, APP returned -44.8% versus +2.5% for SPY.
- vs 50-day
- -12.7%
- vs 200-day
- -37.5%
- From 52W high
- -62.0%
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
APP appeared in a UOA top-30 list on 3 of 94 archived scanner sessions: 2 call-side, 1 put-side and 0 on both lists. The latest session did not place it in either top 30. Its larger composite score was 0.14, below the 1.5 “strong” threshold. That is repeated options attention, not proof of bullish trade initiation.
| Recent flag | Call rank | Put rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-25 | — | #28 |
| 2026-08-06 | #13 | — |
| 2026-06-09 | #26 | — |
Latest chain snapshot
2026-10-07Strong-signature cutoff: 1.5. Current OTM volume/OI: 0.093 calls, 0.087 puts.
Curated-manager ownership
3 of the 20 managers in the project's curated 13F set reported a long AppLovin position in their latest filing, worth $896M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Lone Pine Capital Steve Mandel · APP | $537M | 3.28% | 1.04M | -28.9% reduced | 2026-06-30 |
Fundsmith Terry Smith · APP | $359M | 2.63% | 696,568 | — new | 2026-06-30 |
Baron Capital Group Ron Baron · APP | $142,203 | 0.00% | 276 | +54.2% increased | 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 APP Financials →How APP trades — the working manual
AppLovin provides software that matches advertisers with mobile-app inventory and uses machine learning to optimize campaign returns. For the stock, rapid software-platform growth must be separated from advertising cyclicality, platform-policy exposure and changes in product or asset mix that can make reported comparisons unusually volatile.
What can move the tape
- 01Advertising-software revenue growth and the performance of the company's machine-learning models.
- 02Advertiser return on spend, publisher supply and expansion beyond mobile gaming categories.
- 03Platform take rate, adjusted margin and the conversion of earnings into operating cash flow.
- 04Capital allocation, debt reduction and changes in owned-app or other non-core assets.
What can fool the read
- 01Mobile-platform privacy or attribution changes can disrupt targeting, measurement and inventory access.
- 02Advertising demand can turn quickly with economic conditions and customer-acquisition budgets.
- 03Model performance and auction liquidity can weaken if advertisers or publishers shift platforms.
- 04Rapid growth and a high valuation can produce large drawdowns when guidance resets.
AppLovin triggered 2 issuer-level flags in the committed 2026-04-01–2026-10-08 archive. The latest was APP on 2026-05-27: 1.8× its 30-day average volume while the stock moved +9.0% that session.
Not published yet. The local archive has 1 reported APP 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 | 2026-10-08 | JSON ↓ |
| Price & trend | Split-adjusted daily OHLCV + SPY comparison | 2026-10-08 | CSV ↓ |
| Options | End-of-day chain anomaly ranks | 2026-10-07 | Premium → |
| Ownership | Latest filings from 20 curated 13F managers | 2026-10-08 | Tool → |
| Financials | SEC EDGAR XBRL company facts | 2026-08-27 | JSON ↓ |
| Joined profile | The exact contract rendered by this page | 2026-10-08 | JSON ↓ |
APP stock questions
Is APP stock in an uptrend?+
APP is classified in the “established downtrend” regime as of 2026-10-08: the close is -12.7% from its 50-day average and -37.5% from its 200-day average. This describes the current tape. It is not a forecast.
What does unusual options activity in APP mean?+
AppLovin'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 APP 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 APP's income statement and cash flow?+
The dedicated APP 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 APP 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.