AAPL
Apple trades at a 37.6 price to earnings ratio with a market cap of $4.91 trillion, a valuation that assumes the growth story keeps compounding.
What dominates instead is structural. Dealer and bank desks hold 15.1%, passive index funds hold 12.6%, and the largest single bucket, at 31.5%, is classified as other unclassified, meaning the data cannot sort it into a behavioral camp. That is a lot of Apple stock whose owners are indexing, hedging, or simply unidentified rather than making an active bet on the business. Systematic quant and tactical macro funds together hold under 2%, so there is little sign of fast money positioning around a near term catalyst. Institutional pressure sits at a neutral score of negative 0.01, and the broader market regime reads neutral as well at negative 0.13. Neither signal points to funds leaning hard in either direction right now. Remember that 13F filings underlying this ownership breakdown run 45 to 90 days behind the market, so a fund's position could have changed since it was reported. None of this says where Apple shares go next. The P/E, the ownership mix, and the pressure scores describe positioning and valuation as they stood when the data was collected, not a forecast. A stock this large with this little active conviction in either direction is a data point worth watching, not a signal to act on.
Read the full note →§ 03 · SIGNAL STACK · WHAT THE INPUTS SAY
§ 04 · FUNDAMENTALS · THE BOOKS
| P/E | 37.6 | P/B | 50.98 |
| EPS (TTM) | 8.72 | Dividend | 0.51% |
Apple trades at a 37.6 price to earnings ratio with a market cap of $4.91 trillion, a valuation that assumes the growth story keeps compounding. The ownership data does not show a crowd chasing that story. Quality compounder funds, the investors who buy durable earners and hold, account for just 9.5% of the behavioral breakdown. Growth momentum funds, the ones who buy because a stock is already moving, show up at 0.0%. Deep value and activist investors combined hold 0.3%.
| Fund | Shares | % port | Δ Q/Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| BlackRock, Inc. | 1144.7M | 5.1% | −1% |
| VANGUARD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC | 953.8M | n/a | n/a |
| State Street | 602.3M | 5.3% | −0% |
| Geode Capital Management | 368.6M | 5.8% | +3% |
| VANGUARD PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT LLC | 331.4M | n/a | n/a |
| Fidelity Management | 307.4M | 4.1% | +0% |
Top institutional owners for AAPL as of the most recent 13F reporting period (Q1 2026 · Period ended Mar 31). Δ Q/Q reflects share-count change vs. the prior filing — positive green means adding, negative red means trimming. Cross-reference with the ownership-mix bars below to see which strategy cohort is driving the flow.
§ 06 · WHO OWNS IT · BY STRATEGY
Ownership mix by behavioral cohort. Top bars indicate which style of capital dominates the float — passive indexing, quality compounders, dealer/bank, systematic quant, etc. Big quality-compounder share means concentrated active conviction; heavy passive share means flows are dictated by index rebalances, not fundamentals.
§ 07 · INSIDER ACTIVITY · LAST 180 DAYS
| Date | Insider | Action | Shares | $ value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SEP 24 | Newstead Jennifer | SELL | 2K | −$816K |
| SEP 17 | Newstead Jennifer | SELL | 1K | −$475K |
| SEP 10 | Newstead Jennifer | SELL | 1K | −$456K |
| SEP 03 | Newstead Jennifer | SELL | 1K | −$456K |
| AUG 27 | Newstead Jennifer | SELL | 1K | −$447K |
| AUG 13 | Newstead Jennifer | SELL | 1K | −$443K |
0 insider buys, 10 sells in the last 180 days. Scheduled 10b5-1 sales are pre-programmed and neutral; discretionary clusters are the tape worth reading. Cross-reference with the signal stack above for context.