Apple's basic and diluted share counts, quarter by quarter

Answered against 22 years of US equities and 12 years of US options data and published with the query that produced it. This result is stored as of 2026-08-22, from Market Cap and Which Share Count It Uses.

Rows × columns

20 × 4

Period covered

2021-03-27 to 2025-12-27

Computed

2026-08-22

Completeness

No missing values

Source

US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data

Licence

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Formats

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What each column holds

Computed from Strasmore's warehouse of US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data. Equity prices are delayed; options greeks and implied volatility are end-of-day. This result is stored, not recomputed on load — it is exactly the numbers that were returned on 2026-08-22, and the query below is what returned them.

SELECT
    toString(period_end)                                                    AS quarter_end_date,
    formatDateTime(period_end, '%b %Y')                                     AS quarter_label,
    round(argMax(toFloat64(basic_shares_outstanding), filing_date) / 1e6)   AS basic_shares_mm,
    round(argMax(toFloat64(diluted_shares_outstanding), filing_date) / 1e6) AS diluted_shares_mm
FROM global_markets.stocks_income_statements
WHERE has(tickers, 'AAPL')
  AND timeframe = 'quarterly'
  AND period_end >= '2021-01-01'
  AND basic_shares_outstanding > 0
  AND diluted_shares_outstanding > 0
GROUP BY period_end
ORDER BY period_end