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Is Apple Inc. (AAPL) overvalued or undervalued?

Updated Nov 10, 2026 · hand-researched model · educational, not advice

Fair value
$165.48
Market price
$350.69
Downside to fair value
52.8%
Verdict
112% above fair value

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The DCF value below is a real engine result at each WACC (not a re-estimate). Drag to see how sensitive AAPL's DCF is to the discount rate.

Market price: $350.69

At a recent price of $350.69, Apple Inc. (AAPL) trades 112% above TickerWorth's blended fair value of $165.48 per share — a discounted-cash-flow model cross-checked against peer multiples and asset value — meaning the market currently prices AAPL overvalued vs our estimate of what the business is intrinsically worth. Our fair value sits below the market, an implied -52.8% move to close the gap if the business performs in line with our assumptions. This is an educational model, not a price target or a recommendation — the value moves with the inputs, which you can test yourself using the WACC slider below.

One of the lenses behind that blended figure is a discounted-cash-flow model, which on its own values AAPL at about $125.12 per share. The rest of this page walks through that DCF — its assumptions, reverse-DCF and discount-rate sensitivity — because it is the auditable anchor of the blend.

The valuation discounts Apple Inc.'s projected free cash flows at a weighted-average cost of capital (WACC) of 10.6%, with a long-run terminal growth rate of 2.5%. About 70% of the enterprise value comes from the terminal value — the portion beyond the explicit forecast window — which is typical for a stable, cash-generative business and a reminder that small changes in the discount rate or terminal growth assumption swing the intrinsic value meaningfully.

Running the DCF in reverse — solving for the growth the current price already assumes — AAPL would need sustained revenue growth of more than 25%/yr to justify today's price, against about 5.2% a year compounded in our base case. We don't quote a precise figure here, because past about 25% a year the reverse-DCF stops being informative: it solves for revenue growth alone, holding margins, capital intensity and the forecast horizon fixed, so a price well above our fair value has nowhere to go but growth. The honest reading is that the price implies growth this model can't reconcile — not that we forecast it.

Sensitivity matters more than any single number. Across a reasonable band of discount-rate assumptions, AAPL's modeled DCF value ranges from about $98.95 to $174.43 per share. If that range still sits below today's price, the market is optimistic relative to the model across the whole band; if it brackets the price, the stock is roughly fairly valued on our assumptions. Use the interactive slider to see exactly where your own cost-of-capital view lands.

How to read this page: the DCF fair value is what Apple Inc. would be worth if its cash flows grow as modeled and are discounted at the stated WACC. The assumptions table shows every input and its source; the reverse-DCF shows what the market believes; the sensitivity band shows how fragile the answer is. None of this is investment advice — it is a transparent, auditable framework for forming your own view of AAPL's intrinsic value. Figures update as new filings and prices come in.

The assumptions behind AAPL's DCF

InputValueSource
Base-year revenue$478,834,000,000Apple FY2026 10-K (accession 0000320193-26-000026, filed 2026-11-03), fiscal year ended 2026-09-26: us-gaap:RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax, FY2026 = $478,834M, +15.1% on FY2025's $416,161M — an all-time record. This is now a FILED base year: the FY2026 10-K was filed 2026-11-03, so the prior model's construction (FY2025 base + FY2026 built from three quarters and a guided fourth) is retired. The September quarter printed ABOVE the outlook the old Year 1 was built on: revenue $114,477M (+11.7%) vs the guided +9-11% (~$112,713M at the midpoint), with iPhone $57,583M (+17%), Mac $10,792M, Services a record $31,573M (+10%). Full-year mix: iPhone $254,098M (+21%), Services $123,301M (+13%), Mac $37,929M, iPad $27,929M, Wearables/Home/Accessories $35,577M. CROSS-CHECK: the same figures are in the Q4 earnings release, 8-K Ex-99.1 (accession 0000320193-26-000024, filed 2026-11-02), and tie to XBRL company facts to the dollar.
Base EBIT margin33.0%Apple FY2026 10-K (accession 0000320193-26-000026, filed 2026-11-03), fiscal year ended 2026-09-26: us-gaap:OperatingIncomeLoss FY2026 $158,063M / revenue $478,834M = 33.01%. Apple reports an operating-income line, so this is read off the filing, not derived. Gross margin $233,602M (48.79%) less R&D $45,765M (+32.5% YoY, on AI infrastructure) and SG&A $29,774M. History: FY2025 31.97%, FY2024 31.51%. THE MARGIN INCLUDES ONE-OFFS: tariff refunds after the Supreme Court struck down the IEEPA tariffs added ~2pt to Q3 gross margin and ~1pt to Q4's (~$3.3B in all, ~0.7pt of FY2026 operating margin, $0.05 of Q4 EPS) — ex-refunds FY2026 runs at ~32.3%. Non-operating income (+$1,174M) is excluded; interest income is captured through the net-cash bridge instead. The old model's built Year-1 margin was 32.85%; the filed year printed 0.16pt higher.
Forecast revenue growth7% → 6% → 5% → 4% → 4%Assumption — TickerWorth's 5-year explicit forecast
Risk-free rate5.2%US 10Y Treasury constant maturity (FRED DGS10): 5.24% on 2026-10-01, the latest published observation. House input shared by every model in the tracker.
Beta1.08Yahoo Finance 5Y-monthly beta via yfinance, read 2026-10-03; not re-measured on this quarterly refresh: Published 5Y-monthly beta 1.085, used AS PUBLISHED — no normalization, and NOT re-measured on this refresh (quarterly-refresh convention, as in MA/HOOD/COIN/APP). There is an argument in each direction and neither is strong enough to override the published figure: Apple's cash flows are steadier than a 1.085 beta suggests (argues lower), but it is also ~7% of the S&P 500, so its beta is partly its own weight in the index (argues for leaving it alone). Sensitivity at the refreshed inputs: beta 1.0 gives ~131.84/share, 0.9 gives ~140.76, 1.2 gives ~117.06. The reverse DCF shows no plausible beta closes the gap to the price (see explainer).
Terminal growth2.5%Assumption — house default: House default 2.5% (roughly long-run nominal GDP), kept for comparability with every other company in this tracker. Not raised for Apple: a ~$630B-revenue business by FY2031 growing faster than the world economy forever is exactly the assumption the market price is making, and this model should show that rather than adopt it. 3.5% would give ~138.00/share. Well below the 10.57% WACC.
Diluted shares14,630MApple FY2026 10-K (accession 0000320193-26-000026, filed 2026-11-03), fiscal year ended 2026-09-26: Q4 FY2026 weighted-average diluted shares 14,630,318K (FY2026 full year: 14,720,306K; shares outstanding at 2026-10-23: 14,532,182K). The count is FALLING — the opposite of IBM: 15,408M (FY2024) -> 15,005M (FY2025) -> 14,720M (FY2026), about 2% a year, because Apple bought back $86,390M of stock in FY2026 ($90,711M in FY2025). The model does NOT credit future buybacks with extra value: repurchases are a use of the free cash flow already being valued, and buying shares above this model's value per share lowers it rather than raising it.
Market price$350.69Delayed quote · as of 2026-11-10 05:48 UTC

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