Apple Inc. (AAPL)

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Apple Inc.'s filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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Apple Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $229 billion in fiscal 2017 to $479 billion in fiscal 2026, up 8.5% a year; it rose in 7 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 3% from fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2023; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2026-09-26, Apple Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 2.4% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 85% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 48 sales (45 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-12 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2026-09-26, Apple Inc. earned about 118 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 58 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 72 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 1.9% over the year (the filed statements).

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Apple Inc.'s standing among 7 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $479 billion in fiscal 2026 ranks in the top 7% by size; a net margin of 27.6% ranks in the top 7%; revenue growth of 7.7% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 21% (its annual reports).

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Apple Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Ternus, John (CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2026-09-01, 2 months (bottom 8% of its family); the 16 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 6.8 years (top 42%); 8 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 16 people in charge now (top 33%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Apple Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2026): cash of $36 billion against debt of $68 billion leaves -7.9% of its assets as net cash, bottom 21% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 28.4% of revenue (top 7%); a gross margin of 48.8% (top 36%); research spending of 9.6% of revenue (top 50%) (its annual report).

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Apple Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2026: revenue grew 7.7% a year over the last three filed years against 8.5% over all 10, slowing (top 21% of its family); the newest year grew 15.1% (bottom 36%); research spending grew 15.3% a year (top 21%); capital spending grew -6.2% a year (top 50%) (its annual reports). Apple Inc. reported 5 product lines in fiscal 2025: iPhone at $210 billion (50%), Service at $109 billion (26%), Wearables Home and Accessories at $36 billion (9%), and 2 more; 4 of 5 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Apple Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $479 billion in fiscal 2026 came in 10.4% above the $434 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 36% of its family); net income of $132 billion against a prior three-year average of $101 billion (bottom 36%); a net margin of 27.6% against 25.4% before (top 36%) (its annual reports).