AAPL is the stock-market ticker for Apple, the company behind the iPhone.
Apple’s common stock trades on the Nasdaq exchange under the symbol AAPL. The ticker is written without an extra second “P,” despite the company name beginning with “Apple.” Investors use AAPL to locate Apple’s share price, filings, dividends, and market capitalization.
Apple was founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne. Its major products have included the Macintosh, iPod, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and AirPods. The iPhone, introduced in 2007, became the company’s most influential product and helped drive its expansion into a broad hardware-and-services ecosystem.
A ticker symbol is not the same as a market-cap ranking. Apple’s position among the world’s most valuable companies moves as its stock price and share count change. AAPL identifies the listed equity; it does not describe a particular iPhone model or Apple service.