Growth Metrics

Apple (AAPL) Retained Earnings (2016 - 2026)

Apple filings provide 18 years of Retained Earnings readings, the most recent being -$5.4 billion for Q1 2026.

  • On a quarterly basis, Retained Earnings rose 65.44% to -$5.4 billion in Q1 2026 year-over-year; TTM through Mar 2026 was -$5.4 billion, a 65.44% increase, with the full-year FY2025 number at -$5.6 billion, up 22.32% from a year prior.
  • Retained Earnings hit -$5.4 billion in Q1 2026 for Apple, down from -$2.2 billion in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Retained Earnings ranged from a high of $8.2 billion in Q4 2023 to a low of -$17.6 billion in Q2 2025.
  • Median Retained Earnings over the past 5 years was -$5.6 billion (2025), compared with a mean of -$4.9 billion.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Retained Earnings: surged 449.51% in 2022 and later plummeted 458.42% in 2025.
  • Apple's Retained Earnings stood at $3.2 billion in 2022, then skyrocketed by 154.38% to $8.2 billion in 2023, then plummeted by 182.37% to -$6.8 billion in 2024, then skyrocketed by 67.93% to -$2.2 billion in 2025, then plummeted by 146.9% to -$5.4 billion in 2026.
  • The last three reported values for Retained Earnings were -$5.4 billion (Q1 2026), -$2.2 billion (Q4 2025), and -$5.6 billion (Q3 2025) per Business Quant data.