One of the biggest technology and consumer electronics companies in the world, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), is due to pay its next quarterly dividend next week on August 13 to all shareholders owning the stock by August 10, 2026: the ex-dividend date.
As is usually the case within the sector, the yield is rather small on the assumption that equity price growth will more than make up for small fixed payments and stands at just 0.36%.
Under the circumstances, for each 100 AAPL shares an investor owns, they can expect to receive $27 on Thursday, August 13.
Meanwhile, former CEO Tim Cook can expect $905,000 from his roughly 3.35 million Apple shares, and Arthur Levinson, the company’s biggest individual stockholder, will receive approximately $1.01 million.
Apple stock price performance
Elsewhere, though AAPL stock remains an excellent performer in the long-term charts, recent years have seen a notable slowdown, raising the question of whether it is time to follow Nvidia’s (NASDAQ: NVDA) example and increase the yield.
Specifically, between August 2016 and August 2021, Apple shares rallied roughly 450%, meaning a $1,000 investment would have grown to $5,500 within the timeframe.
In the last five years, however, AAPL equity is up 107.62%, meaning that a $1,000 purchase at the start of the period would have turned into $2,076.20.
While such performance is respectable, it is noteworthy that Walmart (NYSE: WMT) is up 128.69% since 2021 and has an annual dividend of 0.89%, and Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) rose 53.35% and pays 2.44% per year.
Furthermore, Apple stock’s price movements in 2026 only make the question more salient. Indeed, while AAPL was 25% in the green by late July, the gain diminished to 11.96% by press time on August 4.
Additionally, the blue-chip technology giant’s latest 10% plunge to $303.42 was driven by the company’s most recent earnings report, meaning that, should the trends revealed in the document persist, investors can question if they’ll be able to look forward to much other than dividends at least by 2027.
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