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 $305.77 on Aug 21, 2026. The price is -28.4% from its 50-day average and -38.9% 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 -37.1%, trailing SPY by 40.2%. It remains 59.0% below its 52-week high.
Sources, methodology & freshnessLast updated 2026-08-21 · Open ↓Close ↑
The close is -28.4% from its 50-day average and -38.9% from its 200-day average. Over three months, APP returned -37.1% versus +3.1% for SPY.
- vs 50-day
- -28.4%
- vs 200-day
- -38.9%
- From 52W high
- -59.0%
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 2 of 62 archived scanner sessions: 2 call-side, 0 put-side and 0 on both lists. The latest session did not place it in either top 30. Its larger composite score was -0.02, below the 1.5 “strong” threshold. That is repeated options attention, not proof of bullish trade initiation.
| Recent flag | Call rank | Put rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-06 | #13 | — |
| 2026-06-09 | #26 | — |
Latest chain snapshot
2026-08-21Strong-signature cutoff: 1.5. Current OTM volume/OI: 0.125 calls, 0.192 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 2026-04-01–2026-08-21 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 | 2026-08-23 | JSON ↓ |
| Price & trend | Split-adjusted daily OHLCV + SPY comparison | 2026-08-21 | CSV ↓ |
| Options | End-of-day chain anomaly ranks | 2026-08-21 | Premium → |
| Ownership | Latest filings from 20 curated 13F managers | 2026-08-21 | Tool → |
| Financials | SEC EDGAR XBRL company facts | 2026-08-16 | JSON ↓ |
| Joined profile | The exact contract rendered by this page | 2026-08-23 | JSON ↓ |
APP stock questions
Is APP stock in an uptrend?+
APP is classified in the “established downtrend” regime as of 2026-08-21: the close is -28.4% from its 50-day average and -38.9% 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.