Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL)
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) on the public record today: 17 items across Companies, Options, Markets, AI, Bonds, Executive Statements, Immigration, Lobbying, Revenue…
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Companies
- Apple is stocking faster than it sells: inventory +154%, sales +12% on a year earlier — Newest quarter turned: supply caught up · Inventory growth minus sales growth: +143 pts · 22 days of goods in stock · Gross margin 47.9%, +0.7 pts on a year earlier · Quarter ended 26 Sep, filed 3 Nov (SEC EDGAR (company 10-Q and 10-K filings), 3 Nov 2026) AAPL
- Readers of Apple's product articles up 35% on the same weeks a year earlier: 16,751 a day — Most read: iOS 27, macOS, iPhone 18 Pro · Far from their own year: Apple TV (+82% on its year's average) · Median of 113 tracked companies: -30% on the same weeks · 10 product articles · Week ended 1 Nov · Readers are… (Wikimedia Foundation (English Wikipedia page views), 31 Oct 2026) AAPL
- Phone makers (devices in use): Apple leads with 27.6% (Oct 2026), -3.1 points on Sep 2026 — #2 Samsung 22.7% · #3 Xiaomi 11.8% · share of page views, worldwide; 27.0% a year earlier (StatCounter Global Stats, 30 Oct 2026) AAPL
- Apple: Americas is 41% of its revenue — Next: Europe 27%, Greater China 17% · 5 reported lines · One of the five largest companies with a usable revenue breakdown (SEC filings, 25 Sep 2026) AAPL
- Apple Inc. is named as a competitor in 16 companies' annual reports — Named by CHTR, ECHO, FOX, FOXA, GEN, GRMN, HPQ, LOGI, LVO, RBLX and 6 more (SEC filings, 29 Jun 2026) AAPL
- Apple: 31% of U.S. imports in its product categories came from China and Hong Kong in 2025 — 66% in 2024 · Largest source: Viet Nam 34% · Categories (the terminal's estimate of what it buys): smartphones, laptops & tablets, network equipment, headphones & earbuds (Census Bureau, 30 Dec 2025) AAPL
Options
- The five heaviest names in the options map lean from -32 to +33; AAPL, 12% of the list's open-interest dollars, is at +8 — AAPL: bets reach +7.3% above and -7.8% below the price · ±6.8% priced over about a month · bars are each name's share of the list's open-interest dollars (%), its tilt in the label (calls against puts in open interest… (U.S. options exchanges, 6 Nov 2026) AAPL
- AAPL gamma conditions +1 of ±5: mixed — positive gamma · size-adjusted GEX at percentile 22 of its year · price 4.0% above zero gamma · implied volatility +0.2 pts against 20-day realised · after this reading the next session's median move, up or down, was… (U.S. options exchanges, 6 Nov 2026) AAPL
- After negative-gamma sessions AAPL's next-session move was a median 1.76%, against 0.76% after positive-gamma ones — N=39 and 440 sessions in its record · the gap in points, five widest among SPY and the ten largest companies · SPY's median VIX close was 18.0 on negative-gamma sessions and 16.1 on positive ones · moves are in size, up… (U.S. options exchanges, 6 Nov 2026) AAPL
Markets
- AAPL: 76 trading patterns flagged in 20 sessions — Newest 6 Nov: Repeated breaks of a price level, then recovery, down. Flagged for review, not a finding about anyone. (Market behavior measured by the terminal, 5 Nov 2026) AAPL
- AAPL: $52M of shares not delivered on time on 2 Oct — 156,354 shares at $330.32 · SEC file for 2026-10-01 to 2026-10-15 · most fails clear within days (SEC (fails-to-deliver data), 1 Oct 2026) AAPL
AI
- Apple: 2 officer or director departures filed with the SEC in 12 months — 8-K item 5.02, every role, in the 12 months to 7 Nov 2026 · one of the AI Trajectory page's inputs (SEC filings, 7 Nov 2026) AAPL
Bonds
- AAPL sold $7.5B of bonds — 7 tranches · coupons 4.65%-5.35% · due 2028-2036 · spread up to 55 bp over Treasuries (SEC filings, 5 Nov 2026) AAPL
Executive Statements
- Kevan Parekh: Our record September quarter capped off a strong fiscal 2026, with all-time record revenu… — Supported: claimed $479 billion for 2026, SEC XBRL company facts shows $478.83 billion (SEC (company filing), 2 Nov 2026) AAPL
Immigration
- Apple Inc: 1,514 new H-1B approvals in FY2026, +84% on FY2025 — #5 employer by initial approvals · 3,771 continuing approvals (USCIS, 29 Sep 2026) AAPL
Lobbying
- Apple Inc. spent $3.09M lobbying in Q3 2026, +11% on a year earlier — issues: TAX, TEC, TRD, CPI, LBR, HCR · $2.79M a year earlier (Lobbying Disclosure Act reports, 20 Oct 2026) AAPL
Revenue by country
- Apple: 17.2% of revenue came from China in the fiscal year ended 26 Sep 2026, up 0.1 points from the year ended 28 Sep 2024 — China revenue $82.4B, up 28% on the year before · China includes Hong Kong and Taiwan · Filers define regions differently (billing location, headquarters or where products are shipped; not necessarily the end customer's… (SEC EDGAR (annual reports on Form 10-K), 25 Sep 2026) AAPL
Coming up
- 11 Nov 2026: Apple ex-dividend
- 23 Oct 2026: John Ternus on Top Five Tech
In the data tables
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