Apple at a glance
As of- [1] Market cap: companiesmarketcap.com, September 5, 2026
- [2] Revenue: SEC EDGAR, September 27, 2025
- [3] Founded: Wikipedia (retrieved September 5, 2026)
- [4] Headquarters: Wikipedia (retrieved September 5, 2026)
What Apple does
Morgan Stanley and Hambrecht & Quist underwrote the offering.[1] Originally priced at $14, the 4.6 million shares opened at $22 and sold almost immediately.[2] The stock closed the first day at $29, valuing Apple at $1.778 billion.[2] In March 2026 Apple acquired MotionVFX, which makes plug-ins for Final Cut Pro, on undisclosed terms.[3],[4] In October 2026 it disclosed a reverse acqui-hire of the team and technology of personalized audio startup Huxe.[5],[4]
Business model and customers
In its fiscal third quarter ended June 27, 2026, Apple posted revenue of $109.4 billion, up 16% from a year earlier.[6],[4],[7]
Leadership
- It was the second company Q.ai chief executive Aviad Maizels sold to Apple; in 2013 he sold PrimeSense, a 3D-sensing company that helped Apple move to facial recognition on iPhones.[7]
- Q.ai's founding team, including Maizels and co-founders Yonatan Wexler and Avi Barliya, joined Apple as part of the deal.[7]
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Company Snapshot
Apple is based in Cupertino, California, USA, founded 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Ronald Wayne.
Recent changes
- Oct 13, 2026Oct 13, 2026Apple Refreshes Apple TV, HomePod With Siri AI Pulse story
- Sep 26, 2026Sep 26, 2026Apple Hit With $5.7B Verdict Over Haptic Patents Pulse story
- Sep 21, 2026Sep 21, 2026Apple's $250M Siri Settlement Opens To iPhone Owners Pulse story
- Sep 10, 2026Sep 10, 2026Apple Unveils iPhone Duo, Its First Foldable Pulse story
- Sep 9, 2026Sep 9, 2026Apple's foldable iPhone Duo starts at $1,999 Pulse story
Earlier changes (7)
- Sep 5, 2026Sep 5, 2026First reported market cap: $4.669T companiesmarketcap.com
- Sep 2, 2026Sep 2, 2026Apple's New CEO Starts With a $55 Million Pay Package Pulse story
- Sep 2, 2026Sep 2, 2026Ex-Apple Engineers' Lyte Raises $165M at $1.6B Pulse story
- Aug 28, 2026Aug 28, 2026Apple TV Jumps to $14.99, Fourth Hike in Four Years Pulse story
- Aug 18, 2026Aug 18, 2026Apple Cuts EU App Store Fees to End DMA Fight Pulse story
- Aug 14, 2026Aug 14, 2026Apple Proposes 15% Cut on Purchases Outside App Store Pulse story
- Sep 27, 2025Sep 27, 2025First reported revenue: $416.16B SEC EDGAR
How Apple has been funded
Apple went public on December 12, 1980, in what the Computer History Museum calls the largest IPO since Ford Motor's in 1956.[2] On October 22, 2026, Nasdaq data put Apple's market value at $5.081 trillion.[4] The Financial Times reported that deal at nearly $2 billion, Apple's second-largest acquisition after Beats Electronics for $3 billion in 2014.[7]
Latest Pulse
- Oct 16, 2026Apple's DOJ Settlement Talks Worry DevelopersPayPal and Epic Games are pressing Justice Department officials not to let Apple settle its antitrust case with only narrow interoperability changes to the iPhone.→
- Oct 15, 2026Meta Ships An 816B-Parameter Open Model For MacsMeta released Muse Spark Open, an 816-billion-parameter open-weight model with a 1-million-token context window built to run locally on Apple's new Mac Studio with the M5 Ultra chip.→
- Oct 15, 2026OpenAI Won't Use Alleged Apple Trade Secrets, For NowOpenAI agreed not to use trade secrets Apple claims were stolen by former employees, a concession made as a federal judge signaled he is likely to grant Apple an injunction.→
- Oct 13, 2026Judge Orders OpenAI To Hand Over Hiring Records To AppleA federal judge ordered OpenAI to produce interview and hiring records for former Apple employees as part of Apple's trade-secrets lawsuit over OpenAI's hardware ambitions.→
- Oct 13, 2026Apple Refreshes Apple TV, HomePod With Siri AIApple unveiled a $299 Apple TV 4K and a $149 HomePod mini with hands-free Siri AI at its October 13 'Welcome Home' event, its first major refresh of either product since 2022.→
- Oct 12, 2026Mistlabs Raises $26M To Put Ambient AI On Your iPhoneSan Francisco's Mistlabs raised $26 million and took its Ambi ambient-intelligence system out of beta on iPhone, Apple Watch and Mac, ahead of a standalone wearable planned for later this year.→
- Oct 10, 2026Apple Licenses Huxe Tech, Offers Jobs To Its TeamApple disclosed in an EU filing that it will license technology and offer jobs to staff from Huxe, the personalized AI podcast startup that shut down in May, in a structure known as a reverse acqui-hire.→
- Oct 2, 2026Apple to Tighten Mac Disk Access Over AI Agent RiskApple said it will add new controls around macOS's Full Disk Access permission, warning that AI agents' growing autonomy makes that level of system access substantially riskier than when the setting was designed.→
- Oct 1, 2026Google Bets On Being Robotics' Android, Not AppleGoogle DeepMind is positioning its robotics models as a licensable platform for many robot makers, the Android approach, rather than building its own vertically integrated hardware the way Tesla builds Optimus.→
- Sep 30, 2026Apple Plans Oct. 13 Smart-Home Hardware BlitzApple will unveil a Siri-powered smart-home hub, a refreshed HomePod mini and a new Apple TV on October 13, its first serious smart-home push in nearly a decade.→
Coverage Timeline
newest first- Oct 16, 2026REGULATIONApple's DOJ Settlement Talks Worry Developers→
- Oct 15, 2026AIMeta Ships An 816B-Parameter Open Model For Macs→
- Oct 15, 2026REGULATIONOpenAI Won't Use Alleged Apple Trade Secrets, For Now→
- Oct 13, 2026REGULATIONJudge Orders OpenAI To Hand Over Hiring Records To Apple→
- Oct 13, 2026BIG TECHApple Refreshes Apple TV, HomePod With Siri AI$299 Apple TV 4K→
- Oct 12, 2026AIMistlabs Raises $26M To Put Ambient AI On Your iPhone$26M Pre-A→
- Oct 10, 2026BIG TECHApple Licenses Huxe Tech, Offers Jobs To Its Team→
- Oct 2, 2026BIG TECHApple to Tighten Mac Disk Access Over AI Agent Risk→
- Oct 1, 2026BIG TECHGoogle Bets On Being Robotics' Android, Not Apple→
- Sep 30, 2026BIG TECHApple Plans Oct. 13 Smart-Home Hardware Blitz→
- Sep 26, 2026BIG TECHApple Hit With $5.7B Verdict Over Haptic Patents$5.7B verdict→
- Sep 24, 2026REGULATIONOpenAI Admits Its Apple Siri Deal Flopped, Court Files Show→
- Sep 21, 2026REGULATIONNadella, Huang, Altman, Cook Join Trump-Xi State Dinner→
- Sep 21, 2026BIG TECHApple's $250M Siri Settlement Opens To iPhone Owners$250M settlement→
- Sep 16, 2026REGULATIONJudge Orders Musk's X, SpaceXAI To Reveal Secret Apple Deal→
- Sep 14, 2026AIApple Ships iOS 27 With Its Biggest Siri Overhaul Yet→
- Sep 14, 2026AIDaydream Turns Your Camera Roll Into A Shoppable Feed→
- Sep 10, 2026BIG TECHApple Unveils iPhone Duo, Its First Foldable$1,999 starting price→
- Sep 9, 2026BIG TECHApple's foldable iPhone Duo starts at $1,999$1,999 starting price→
- Sep 9, 2026BIG TECHWhy Apple's Foldable Won't Create Many New VC Winners→
- Sep 6, 2026BIG TECHPhil Schiller Left the App Store Over Its Next Act→
- Sep 6, 2026BIG TECHPhil Schiller Steps Down as Apple's App Store Chief→
- Sep 4, 2026BIG TECHJohn Ternus Takes Over as Apple CEO→
- Sep 2, 2026FUNDINGEx-Apple Engineers' Lyte Raises $165M at $1.6B$165M Series C→
- Sep 2, 2026BIG TECHApple's New CEO Starts With a $55 Million Pay Package$55M equity award→
- Sep 1, 2026BIG TECHCook Leaves Apple 2,680% Higher Than He Found It→
- Sep 1, 2026REGULATIONApple Accuses OpenAI of Destroying Evidence→
- Sep 1, 2026AIPerplexity Splits AI Tasks Between Cloud and Your Mac→
- Aug 31, 2026BIG TECHTim Cook Steps Down as Apple CEO, Hands Reins to Ternus→
- Aug 28, 2026BIG TECHApple TV Jumps to $14.99, Fourth Hike in Four Years$14.99/mo, up from $12.99→
- Aug 25, 2026AIApple's New Mac Studio, Mini Lean Hard Into Local AI→
- Aug 24, 2026BIG TECHAt Apple's CEO Farewell, an Unusually Personal Tim Cook→
- Aug 21, 2026BIG TECHApple Cuts 200+ Jobs From Siri and Vision Pro Teams→
- Aug 20, 2026AIApple Music Will Start Labeling AI-Generated Songs→
- Aug 20, 2026AIChatGPT Can Now Read and Send Your iMessages→
- Aug 18, 2026REGULATIONApple Cuts EU App Store Fees to End DMA Fight5% to 26% tiers→
- Aug 17, 2026REGULATIONApple's Spyware Alert Hits Unprecedented Scale→
- Aug 14, 2026REGULATIONApple Proposes 15% Cut on Purchases Outside App Store15% commission→
- Aug 14, 2026AIApple Built Its Own China AI Model With Alibaba's Help→
- Aug 12, 2026AIGoogle's Pixel 11 Puts Gemini at the Center of Its Apple Fight→
- Aug 7, 2026REGULATIONAI's Biggest Companies Are Suddenly Fighting in Court→
- Aug 6, 2026BIG TECHOpenAI Moves to Dismiss Apple's Trade-Secrets Suit→
- Aug 5, 2026BIG TECHFoxconn Posts Record Sales on AI Server Demand~$27.9B July revenue→
- Aug 5, 2026BIG TECHApple's Private Relay Is Leaking Real IP Addresses→
- Aug 4, 2026BIG TECHOpenAI Fires Back at Apple's Trade Secret Suit→
- Aug 4, 2026BIG TECHOpenAI Publishes Emails to Rebut Apple's Trade Secret Suit→
- Aug 4, 2026BIG TECHAmazon Joins the $3 Trillion Club on AI Cloud Demand$3T market cap→
- Aug 3, 2026BIG TECHApple Finally Fixed Siri. It Feels Anticlimactic.→
- Aug 3, 2026BIG TECHAn Apple iCloud Policy Quietly Fueled the OpenAI Leak Suit→
- Jul 31, 2026BIG TECHAmazon Surges, Apple Falls as Investors Pick AI WinnersAMZN +12-14%, AAPL -8-9%→
- Jul 30, 2026BIG TECHApple Beats Estimates for a 13th Straight Quarter$109.4B rev, EPS $2.02→
- Jul 29, 2026BIG TECHMicrosoft, Meta Earnings Put Wall Street's AI Patience to the Test→
- Jul 28, 2026IPOApple Crosses $5 Trillion Market Cap→
- Jul 28, 2026BIG TECHApple And Google Both Blink As RAM Prices SextupleRAM up ~6x→
- Jul 27, 2026BIG TECHApple Reclaims Title As World's Most Valuable Company~$4.94T cap→
- Jul 27, 2026BIG TECHApple Reclaims World's Most Valuable Company From Nvidia→
- Jul 27, 2026BIG TECHBig Tech's $725B AI Bet Faces Earnings Reckoning→
- Jul 23, 2026AIOpenAI Rolls Out ChatGPT Health to All US Adults→
- Jul 22, 2026BIG TECHAltman and Ive's Hardware Bet Now Sits at the Center of OpenAI's Future→
- Jul 17, 2026IPOApple's Trade-Secrets Suit Threatens OpenAI's IPOIPO odds: 18.5%→
- Jul 17, 2026REGULATIONApple, Google Ordered to Purge 'Nudify' Apps→
- Jul 17, 2026BIG TECHApple, Nvidia Battle for Most Valuable CompanyMarket-cap race→
- Jul 16, 2026BIG TECHApple Intelligence Clears China Launch With Alibaba's Qwen→
- Jul 16, 2026BIG TECHAlibaba, Baidu Jump on Reported Apple AI Tie-Up→
- Jul 16, 2026BIG TECHTSMC Adds $100B Arizona Bet After Profit Soars 77%$100B new investment→
- Jul 14, 2026AIApple in Talks to Shrink AI Models for iPhone27B params, phone-sized→
- Jul 10, 2026REGULATIONApple Sues OpenAI, Alleging Trade Secret Theft "At Every Level"→
- Jul 7, 2026BIG TECHBroadcom and Apple Extend Custom Chip Pact Through 2031Multi-year extension through 2031→
- Jun 29, 2026AIOpenAI Teases Dedicated Hardware for Its Codex Coding AgentHardware tease→
- Jun 28, 2026REGULATIONApple Lobbies Washington to Buy Memory From Blacklisted China Chipmaker as the AI Memory Crunch BitesDRAM +98% in Q1→
- Jun 27, 2026BIG TECHApple's Vision Pro Chief Paul Meade Is Leaving for OpenAI's Hardware TeamSenior hardware exit→
- Jun 21, 2026AIBeyond Siri: The Practical AI Features Coming to Your iPhone in iOS 27→
- Jun 17, 2026BIG TECHApple Says iPhone Price Hikes Are 'Unavoidable' as the AI Memory Crunch Becomes a 'Hundred-Year Flood'~4x memory costs→
- Jun 9, 2026AIThe Apple-Google AI Deal: $3B+ a Year and a New Playbook for Renting Intelligence→
- Jun 9, 2026BIG TECHApple Unveils Siri AI Powered by Google Gemini at WWDC 2026$3B+ estimated Gemini deal→
All Coverage
12 most recent shown — all 75 stories are in the timeline aboveREGULATION
Apple's DOJ Settlement Talks Worry Developers
PayPal and Epic Games are pressing Justice Department officials not to let Apple settle its antitrust case with only narrow interoperability changes to the iPhone.
DEEP DIVE
Meta Ships An 816B-Parameter Open Model For Macs
AI
Meta Ships An 816B-Parameter Open Model For Macs
Meta released Muse Spark Open, an 816-billion-parameter open-weight model with a 1-million-token context window built to run locally on Apple's new Mac Studio with the M5 Ultra chip.
DEEP DIVE
OpenAI Won't Use Alleged Apple Trade Secrets, For Now
REGULATION
OpenAI Won't Use Alleged Apple Trade Secrets, For Now
OpenAI agreed not to use trade secrets Apple claims were stolen by former employees, a concession made as a federal judge signaled he is likely to grant Apple an injunction.
FOLLOW-UP
Judge Orders OpenAI To Hand Over Hiring Records To Apple
REGULATION
Judge Orders OpenAI To Hand Over Hiring Records To Apple
A federal judge ordered OpenAI to produce interview and hiring records for former Apple employees as part of Apple's trade-secrets lawsuit over OpenAI's hardware ambitions.
DEEP DIVE
Apple Refreshes Apple TV, HomePod With Siri AI
BIG TECH$299 Apple TV 4K
Apple Refreshes Apple TV, HomePod With Siri AI
Apple unveiled a $299 Apple TV 4K and a $149 HomePod mini with hands-free Siri AI at its October 13 'Welcome Home' event, its first major refresh of either product since 2022.
DEEP DIVE
Mistlabs Raises $26M To Put Ambient AI On Your iPhone
AI$26M Pre-A
Mistlabs Raises $26M To Put Ambient AI On Your iPhone
San Francisco's Mistlabs raised $26 million and took its Ambi ambient-intelligence system out of beta on iPhone, Apple Watch and Mac, ahead of a standalone wearable planned for later this year.
DEEP DIVE
Apple Licenses Huxe Tech, Offers Jobs To Its Team
BIG TECH
Apple Licenses Huxe Tech, Offers Jobs To Its Team
Apple disclosed in an EU filing that it will license technology and offer jobs to staff from Huxe, the personalized AI podcast startup that shut down in May, in a structure known as a reverse acqui-hire.
DEEP DIVE
Apple to Tighten Mac Disk Access Over AI Agent Risk
BIG TECH
Apple to Tighten Mac Disk Access Over AI Agent Risk
Apple said it will add new controls around macOS's Full Disk Access permission, warning that AI agents' growing autonomy makes that level of system access substantially riskier than when the setting was designed.
DEEP DIVE
Google Bets On Being Robotics' Android, Not Apple
BIG TECH
Google Bets On Being Robotics' Android, Not Apple
Google DeepMind is positioning its robotics models as a licensable platform for many robot makers, the Android approach, rather than building its own vertically integrated hardware the way Tesla builds Optimus.
DEEP DIVE
Apple Plans Oct. 13 Smart-Home Hardware Blitz
BIG TECH
Apple Plans Oct. 13 Smart-Home Hardware Blitz
Apple will unveil a Siri-powered smart-home hub, a refreshed HomePod mini and a new Apple TV on October 13, its first serious smart-home push in nearly a decade.
DEEP DIVE
Apple Hit With $5.7B Verdict Over Haptic Patents
BIG TECH$5.7B verdict
Apple Hit With $5.7B Verdict Over Haptic Patents
A federal jury awarded Taction Technology more than $5.7 billion after finding Apple's Taptic Engine in the iPhone and Apple Watch infringes two of its haptic feedback patents, one of the largest patent verdicts on record.
DEEP DIVE
OpenAI Admits Its Apple Siri Deal Flopped, Court Files Show
REGULATION
OpenAI Admits Its Apple Siri Deal Flopped, Court Files Show
Court filings in OpenAI's antitrust fight with xAI reveal OpenAI's own view that its ChatGPT integration into Apple's Siri was 'persistently underperforming,' undercutting xAI's claim the deal gave OpenAI an unfair advantage.
DEEP DIVE
Apple FAQ
What is Apple's market cap?
On October 22, 2026, Nasdaq data put Apple's market value at $5.081 trillion.[4]
How much revenue does Apple make?
In its fiscal third quarter ended June 27, 2026, Apple posted revenue of $109.4 billion, up 16% from a year earlier.[6],[4],[7]
Is Apple a public company?
Apple went public on December 12, 1980, in what the Computer History Museum calls the largest IPO since Ford Motor's in 1956.[2]
What is Apple's revenue?
Apple's most recent revenue figure is $416.16B, reported by SEC EDGAR, September 2025.
When was Apple founded and where is it based?
Apple was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Cupertino, California, USA, according to Wikipedia.
References
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