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Company Dossier · Information Technology

Apple Inc.

AAPLNasdaqTech HardwareGlendale, US-CA, USMega capWebsite ↗
  • S&P 500
  • S&P 100
  • Nasdaq-100
  • Dow 30
  • Russell 1000

What Apple Inc. is doing, read from its filings, its own words and the news, with every figure dated and sourced. Not investment advice: no ratings, no price targets.

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The latest read

Computed from the data on Oct 22, 2026. Every figure links back to its source in the sections below.

  • Revenue over the four quarters to June 27, 2026: $467 billion, up 14% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capital expenditure) over the four quarters to June 27, 2026: $137 billion, up 42% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Capital expenditure over the four quarters to June 27, 2026: $10.0 billion, down 19% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Share buybacks in the fiscal year to September 27, 2025: $90.7 billion.SEC EDGAR filings (10-K)
  • Long-term debt issued in the fiscal year to September 27, 2025: $4.48 billion.SEC EDGAR filings (10-K)
  • Latest earnings call or results release (July 30, 2026): sentiment 0.60 on a −1 to +1 scale (mixed), confidence 0.70 of 1.Palanor Discourse
  • Latest annual report (filed October 31, 2025): 0 risk factors added, 1 removed.Risk Factor Changes (10-K Item 1A)
  • Insiders were net sellers in Q3 2026: $4.3 million on the open market.SEC Form 4
  • 6,161 institutional managers reported a position at June 30, 2026 (+28 on the quarter before).SEC Form 13F
  • H-1B filings certified in Q2 2026: 1,710 (1,520 a year earlier).U.S. Department of Labor (OFLC)
  • Headlines in the last 30 days: 16, of which 3 read positive and 1 negative.Palanor headline tone

Risk events (12 months): 2 — latest OSHA inspection, Jan 29, 2026 →

Company Posture

How Company Posture is measured →

What Apple Inc. is doing, on three axes, from its filings and its own words, as of 2026-10-22. A description, not a rating: Company Posture never says whether to buy.

Retrenching · Confident

Expanding ↔ Retrenching

Retrenching

RetrenchingExpanding

Confident ↔ Hedging

Confident

HedgingConfident

Pressure

Components only: Not yet shown as a score: in the back-test it did not add to a naive reader's forecast of impairment, debt acceleration or bankruptcy filings (8-K 2.06, 2.04, 1.03) (not enough events (17 in half 1; needs 20)).

Credit

How these are built →

Apple Inc.'s borrowing from its SEC filings: the bonds it priced and the debt on its latest balance sheet. A description, not a rating.

Debt on the balance sheet

$84.3B

  • Due within a year $13.0B
  • Longer term $71.3B
  • Default point $48.7B (short + ½ long)

Finance leases included · Jun 27, 2026 filing

Bonds priced, last 12 months

None

U.S. dollar tranches with a term sheet on EDGAR. Deals sold under Rule 144A file none and are not counted.

PricedAmountCouponMaturesSpreadYield
May 5, 2025$1.5B4.000%2028 (3y)+25bp4.070%
May 5, 2025$1B4.200%2030 (5y)+30bp4.238%
May 5, 2025$1B4.500%2032 (7y)+40bp4.527%
May 5, 2025$1B4.750%2035 (10y)+50bp4.834%

From the pricing term sheets Apple Inc. filed with the SEC. Spread is to the benchmark Treasury (or Bund, Gilt) at pricing.

Charts

Live charts: each one redraws from today’s data and has an image link to paste into a document or slide.

Cash flow

Business

Apple Inc.: free cash flow, trailing twelve months

Operating cash flow minus capital expenditure, $ billions, from SEC filings

$136.7BData to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Apple Inc.: operating cash flow and capital expenditure

Trailing twelve months, $ billions, from SEC filings

Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Apple Inc.: revenue, trailing twelve months

$ billions, from SEC filings

$466.8BData to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

Capital returned and raised

Business

Apple Inc.: share buybacks by fiscal year

Cash paid to repurchase common stock, $ billions, from the 10-K

$90.7BData to Sep 2025
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Apple Inc.: debt issued and repaid by fiscal year

Long-term debt, $ billions, from the 10-K

Data to Sep 2025
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Apple Inc.: debt maturity schedule, latest annual report

Scheduled repayments of long-term debt principal by year from the fiscal year end, $ billions, from the 10-K

Data to Sep 2025
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Apple Inc.: debt due within a year and cash

At each balance-sheet date, $ billions, from SEC filings

Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Apple Inc.: interest coverage

Operating income ÷ interest expense, trailing twelve months, from SEC filings

29.1Data to Sep 2023
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

What the company says

Business

Apple Inc.: earnings call sentiment

Palanor Discourse score per call, −1 to +1

0.60Data to Jul 2026
ImageDataPalanor calculation
Business

Apple Inc.: earnings call confidence

Palanor Discourse score per call, 0 to 1

0.70Data to Jul 2026
ImageDataPalanor calculation
Business

Apple Inc.: risk factors added per annual report

New Item 1A risk factors in each 10-K

0.0Data to Oct 2025
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

Hiring and ownership

Business

Apple Inc.: H-1B filings certified

Labor Condition Applications by quarter received

1,710Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification disclosure data, dol.gov
Business

Apple Inc.: insider net buying

Open-market purchases minus sales by officers and directors, $ millions, by quarter

−$4.3MData 22 days ago
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Apple Inc.: institutional holders

Managers reporting a position on Form 13F, by quarter

6,161Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

News

Business

Apple Inc.: headline tone

Net share of positive headlines, trailing 28 days, −1 to +1

0.1Data 5 days ago
ImagePalanor calculation from news headlines (tone words only)

In the news

Headlines that name Apple Inc., with the publisher and a link. The tone is read from each headline’s own words, never from a summary of the article.

30 days
16 headlines
19% positive · 6% negative
90 days
25 headlines
12% positive · 16% negative

Filings and records

The last two years of notable 8-Ks, offerings, annual reports, federal awards, lobbying reports, patents and other public records, newest first.

  1. Oct 21, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (FEDERAL STREET STRATEGIES, LLC)third_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
  2. Oct 21, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (APPLE INC.)third_quarter 2026 · $3.1 million
  3. Oct 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (THOLOS GOVERNMENT RELATIONS)third_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
  4. Oct 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (INVARIANT LLC)third_quarter 2026 · $0.2 million
  5. Oct 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (FGS GLOBAL (US) LLC (FKA FGH HOLDINGS LLC))third_quarter 2026 · $0.0 million
  6. Oct 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (MILLER STRATEGIES, LLC)third_quarter 2026 · $0.3 million
  7. Oct 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (FIERCE GOVERNMENT RELATIONS)third_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
  8. Oct 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (SALT POINT STRATEGIES)third_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
  9. Oct 20, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: MEMORY TRANSACTION TIMING COMPENSATIONUS 12769451
  10. Oct 20, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: CONTENTION-BASED DISCOVERY AND SECURE RANGING TECHNIQUES FOR CONGESTED ENVIRONMENTSUS 12771547
  11. Oct 20, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Enhancement via Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU)-Supported Super-Resolution ImagingUS 12770421
  12. Oct 20, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: MAGNETICS CONFIGURATIONS FOR WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER AND COMMUNICATIONS IN ELECTRONIC DEVICEUS 12771174
  13. Oct 20, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: ENHANCED MEMS SENSOR EMBEDDED HEATERUS 12767524
  14. Sep 1, 20268-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  15. Apr 20, 20268-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  16. Feb 24, 20268-K
    Shareholder vote resultsItem 5.07
  17. Jan 29, 2026Risk event
    OSHA accident inspection: APPLE INC.OSHA
  18. Jan 2, 20268-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  19. Dec 5, 20258-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  20. Oct 31, 202510-K
    Annual report (10-K)0 risk factors added, 1 removed
  21. Oct 27, 2025Risk event
    EPA administrative case: Apple Inc CAFO$0.3 million
  22. Sep 22, 2025Risk event
    OSHA accident inspection: APPLE, INC.OSHA
  23. Jul 25, 20258-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  24. Jul 9, 20258-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  25. Feb 25, 20258-K
    Shareholder vote resultsItem 5.07
  26. Jan 9, 2025Risk event
    OSHA referral inspection: APPLE INC.OSHA
  27. Jan 3, 20258-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  28. Nov 1, 202410-K
    Annual report (10-K)0 risk factors added, 0 removed
  29. Nov 3, 202310-K
    Annual report (10-K)0 risk factors added, 1 removed

Peers

Companies in the same sector in the S&P 500, Russell 1000 or MidCap 400, closest in revenue first. Trailing twelve months, from SEC filings.

CompanyRevenueFree cash flowThrough
Alphabet Inc. (Class A) GOOGL$446B$53.3BJun 30, 2026
Microsoft Corporation MSFT$332B$67.0BJun 30, 2026
NVIDIA Corporation NVDA$303B$127BJul 26, 2026
Meta Platforms Inc. META$228B$41.0BJun 30, 2026
Dell Technologies DELL$151B$8.6BJul 31, 2026
Micron Technology MU$133B$59.0BSep 3, 2026
Broadcom Inc. AVGO$89.1B$39.4BAug 2, 2026
TD Synnex SNX$75.7B−$0.8BAug 31, 2026

Identity

SEC CIK
320193
LEI
HWUPKR0MPOU8FGXBT394
Wikidata
Q312

Built from SEC EDGAR filings (public domain), the Guidance and KPI Ledgers, Palanor Discourse, U.S. Department of Labor filings, USPTO, USAspending and Senate lobbying records, and rights-checked news headlines. Updated nightly; this page was built Oct 22, 2026. How the Dossier is built

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