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Apple Inc. (AAPL) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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The desk on AAPL

What this diary said about Apple Inc., what it holds and what would change its view — in its own words, dated. Investment diary, not advice.

What we hold

BookPositionSinceResult
AI Cycle 2030 (wikifolio) ↗ 8 shares · average entry €295.31 — —

Model books as of the latest close; wikifolio positions from the official wikifolio data, entries in euros. Results are unrealised, before any exit. A record of what the diary does, not a recommendation to do the same.

Our record on AAPL

Every scored call, pick and trade this diary has made on Apple Inc., with the outcome where it is known.

Charts from the desk on AAPL

The charts this diary drew or picked on Apple Inc., as published — each dated and linked to the piece that explains it.

Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for AAPL, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Versus its index Agentic Winners 40 — the name, its sleeve and the index over day, week and month

Versus its index

The name against its Closelooknet index and its own sleeve — equal-weight, nightly closes.

Agentic Winners 40 · as of 2026-10-05

DayWeekMonth3 months
AAPL−0.2%−1.6%+1.4%+7.2%
Megacap Gateway+1.0%+2.1%+4.7%—
Agentic Winners 40+2.6%+2.9%−3.6%—

Against the index: 4.5 pts behind on the week, 5.0 pts ahead on the month; against its Megacap Gateway sleeve 3.3 pts behind on the month.

Returns from the index workers’ nightly closes; equal-weight sleeves. A relative reading from the research diary, not advice.

Mentioned on Closelooknet 30 pieces · newest: Midday 10, “S&P 500 — record high as Marvell jumps 7.6% on its investor day; chip-machine makers slide” (2026-10-06)

Mentioned on Closelooknet

Where AAPL appears in the diary — 30 pieces, newest first. Every link is our own writing.

Go deeper

Long reads

  • The Agentic Winners 25Dossier · $49 · 31 Mar 2026Apple controls the on-device inference environment — the hardware runtime on which personal agents will execute.
  • NVIDIA 2030Dossier · $49 · 24 Mar 2026The historical analogy chain — Microsoft (Windows monopoly) → Apple (consumer computing platform) → AWS (global cloud utility) → NVIDIA (global intelligence utility) — frames the scale of what is happening.
  • Magnificent Seven — The Seven at the ShelfWeekly Signal · 30 Aug 20262 · The four long trends — and the one most behind The four long trends, three years each: MSFT +59%, AMZN +97%, GOOG +152%, AAPL +72%.

Dailies

Weather around the name 4 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sector × region …

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 57/100 · S&P 500 fund at 60, bullish alignedEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-10-02
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 99th percentile of the window, +7.5% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-10-05
  • Sector × region Technology in US: +1.8% week · +9.0% month · +9.0% quarter · +45.4% yearThe Sector Engine cell this name lives in, from XLK.US; the 11 × 4 matrix shows where its sector is being bought and where it is being sold. Sector Engine → 2026-10-04
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.96 · up 0.53 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-10-05
How it trades on rate days beta 0.27 to TLT · on the worst bond days it held up better than the market

How it trades on rate days

How AAPL has moved when long-dated Treasury yields rise — measured against TLT, the 20+ year Treasury fund.

  • Beta to long bonds, 1 year 0.27 — shows only a loose link to bond moves for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), Apple Inc. moved 0.27% on average · correlation 0.10 · higher than 26% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months 0.74 more rate-sensitive lately than over the year
  • On the 10 worst bond days +0.29% on average against −0.74% for the S&P 500 the 10 sessions of the past year in which TLT fell most, i.e. long yields rose most
  • Latest of those days −0.33% TLT −1.29% that day 2026-09-24

Daily total returns from the adjusted price series; a TLT down day is a day long yields rose. Beta = the average move of the name for a 1% move in TLT. Past sensitivity, not a forecast. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Who it is priced against Devices and consumer platforms · 5 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Devices and consumer platforms

Curated competitor set — who the market prices this name against, not just who shares its sector.

Compared against AAPL on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Company snapshot — Apple Inc.

AAPL in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Apple designs and sells iPhone, Mac, iPad and wearables, and runs services such as the App Store, Apple Music and Apple Pay. It serves consumers, businesses, education, enterprise and government customers worldwide, selling through its own stores, a direct sales force and third-party carriers.
Where it sits in the stack
Apple holds no seat in Rubin, our AI build-out index. Within the diary's universe it sits in the Technology sector, in the consumer electronics industry, as a devices and platform name rather than a build-out constituent.
Who it is priced against
Closelooknet's peer group prices Apple against devices and consumer-platform names — Samsung Electronics, Alphabet, Microsoft, Dell and HP — reflecting shared hardware and services markets rather than shared sector labels alone.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
Apple sits in Closelooknet's Agentic Winners 40, the Nasdaq-100 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and carries a Closelooknet score in which the quality module reads strongest and the valuation module reads weakest. The diary has quoted it in dossiers on agentic winners and on the Nvidia analogy chain, and in a Weekly Signal on the Magnificent Seven.
What the diary watches
The diary watches whether Apple's grip on the on-device runtime, the environment personal agents would execute on, keeps mattering as agentic software spreads across phones and computers.

Apple Inc. (AAPL) trades on US exchanges, classified under Technology. Constituent of Agentic Winners 40.

The Closelooknet company score reads 56/100 composite (momentum 79, quality 85, valuation 25) across 7 modules — the full breakdown, chart structure and analog history load live above.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: AAPL news on the tape · index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

The Street on this name 3 analyst actions on the wire · latest: price target by Morgan Stanley, 2026-10-01

The Street on this name

Analyst actions and the latest print for AAPL from the Closelooknet wires — third-party opinions on the record, not our readings.

  • Price target Morgan Stanley — target 355 from 360 Target cut to $355 from $360 (+7.5% to spot) 2026-10-01
  • Upgrade Morgan Stanley — Underweight → Overweight Upgraded to Overweight from Underweight 2026-09-04
  • Initiation BMO Capital — at Outperform Initiated to Outperform from Buy 2026-08-21

3 actions on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 1 upgrade, 1 initiation, 1 target change. Analyst wire → · Earnings wire →

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 0.32%, quarterly · buybacks 90.7 bn USD in FY2025

Dividends and capital return

What AAPL pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 1.06 USD per share · a 0.32% yield on the 2026-10-05 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-10-05
  • Change on the year +3.9% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 1.02 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.27 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-08-10
  • By calendar year 2023: 0.24 USD (partial) · 2024: 0.99 USD · 2025: 1.03 USD · 2026: 0.80 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2023-11-10
  • Dividends paid, FY2025 15.4 bn USD 12% of earnings
  • Buybacks, FY2025 90.7 bn USD 1.9% of today's market value
  • Share count −2.6% in FY2025 12.9 bn USD of stock-based compensation in the year
  • Capital returned 106.1 bn USD · 107% of free cash flow dividends and buybacks together, against the year’s free cash flow

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-10-06

Quick answers

What is Apple Inc. (AAPL)?

Apple Inc. trades as AAPL on the US exchange (US) and is classified under Technology in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-10-06.

Is AAPL in a Closelooknet index?

Yes — Apple Inc. is a constituent of Agentic Winners 40, as of 2026-10-06.

What is Apple Inc.'s Closelooknet composite score?

56 out of 100, with momentum 79, quality 85 and valuation 25 sub-scores, as of 2026-10-06. Scores are Closelooknet's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

What is Apple Inc.'s earnings print record?

Across the 10 prints Closelooknet covers, Apple Inc. beat EPS estimates 10 times and revenue estimates 10 times; the three-day reactions split 3 up, 5 flat and 2 down (moves beyond ±3%), as of the 2026-07-29 card. The full print-record card carries the per-print history.

Where does AAPL trade against its moving averages?

Trending: Above its 20-, 50- and 200-day; consensus target sits +2.4% higher. As of 2026-10-02 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How is AAPL doing against its Closelooknet index?

Over the past month Apple Inc. is +1.4% against −3.6% for the Agentic Winners 40 — 5.0 points ahead of its index, as of 2026-10-05. Its Megacap Gateway sleeve is +4.7% over the same month. The “Versus its index” table on this page carries the day, the week and the month for the name, its sleeve and the index.

How does Apple Inc. compare with its peers?

Against its peer group (Devices and consumer platforms), Apple Inc. (AAPL) sits 3.4% below its 52-week high, 3.5% above its 50-day average; Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) is 26.3% below, Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL) is 15.9% below, Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) is 6.1% below. Put any of them next to AAPL in the chart grid (2×1 or 2×2) and the page lays the companies side by side: performance, trend, valuation, margins and our money-flow reading.

How does Apple Inc. trade when bond yields rise?

Over the past year Apple Inc. had a beta of 0.27 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it shows only a loose link to bond moves, higher than 26% of US names. On the 10 sessions in which long bonds fell most it moved +0.29% on average, against −0.74% for the S&P 500. The "How it trades on rate days" block on this page carries the lines.

Where has Closelooknet written about Apple Inc.?

Apple Inc. appears in 30 Closelooknet pieces, most recently Midday 10: S&P 500 — record high as Marvell jumps 7.6% on its investor day; chip-machine makers slide (2026-10-06); Midday 10: Jobs-day rally fades — weak payrolls lift stocks at the open, then yields turn up and the Dow goes flat (2026-10-02); Morning 10: Markets — Nasdaq +1.5% before the open even as TLT breaks 78; Tokyo +3.3% on Micron's record quarter (2026-10-01). What Closelooknet said most recently: Megacaps mixed: Amazon +1.5% to $255.27, Alphabet +0.5%, Tesla +0.4%; Apple and Meta flat (Midday 10, 2026-10-06). The "Mentioned on Closelooknet" block on this page lists the long reads, the reference entries and the dailies that name it.

Does Closelooknet hold Apple Inc.?

Yes — AI Cycle 2030 (wikifolio): 8 shares · average entry €295.31. A record of what the diary does, not a recommendation to do the same.

What does Apple Inc. do?

Apple designs and sells iPhone, Mac, iPad and wearables, and runs services such as the App Store, Apple Music and Apple Pay. It serves consumers, businesses, education, enterprise and government customers worldwide, selling through its own stores, a direct sales force and third-party carriers. Closelooknet's peer group prices Apple against devices and consumer-platform names — Samsung Electronics, Alphabet, Microsoft, Dell and HP — reflecting shared hardware and services markets rather than shared sector labels alone.

Where does Apple Inc. sit in the AI build-out?

Apple holds no seat in Rubin, our AI build-out index. Within the diary's universe it sits in the Technology sector, in the consumer electronics industry, as a devices and platform name rather than a build-out constituent. Apple sits in Closelooknet's Agentic Winners 40, the Nasdaq-100 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and carries a Closelooknet score in which the quality module reads strongest and the valuation module reads weakest. The diary has quoted it in dossiers on agentic winners and on the Nvidia analogy chain, and in a Weekly Signal on the Magnificent Seven.

Does Apple Inc. pay a dividend?

Apple Inc. has paid 1.06 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 0.32% on the 2026-10-05 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.27 USD on 2026-08-10. In fiscal 2025 the company paid 15.4 bn USD in dividends and bought back 90.7 bn USD of its own shares, 107% of that year’s free cash flow. The share count fell 2.6% over the fiscal year. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What has Wall Street done on Apple Inc. recently?

The most recent analyst action on Apple Inc. on the Closelooknet wire is a price target by Morgan Stanley on 2026-10-01 (target 355 from 360). 3 actions on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 1 upgrade, 1 initiation, 1 target change. Analyst actions are third-party opinions recorded by the wire, not Closelooknet readings. The “The Street on this name” block on this page lists the moves; the full feeds are the analyst wire and the earnings wire.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for AAPL, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelooknet structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelooknet universe

same Closelooknet index seat first, then Consumer Electronics. Scored names rank on their Closelooknet score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.