Apple Inc.

The full register, from 13F filings

The Register tab above is hand research: a dozen holders, each traced to the filing it came from. This asks the same question of the whole market for the quarter ended 31-mar-2026, where 6,000 managers reported a position. Broad where the research is deep, and shallow in the ways a 13F always is.

Built from 13F filings, which report US listed, long, US custodied positions only. A register from this source is a floor rather than a level: a holder's true position can be far larger, as BlackRock's ASML stake shows at 1.28m shares in a 13F against 26.3m in its 13G/A. Holdings held through derivatives, outside US custody, or below a manager's reporting obligation do not appear. Where a holder is marked as a family, its total sums several separate filing entities and describes something no single filing describes; the constituent entities and their share counts are listed so the total can be checked. That roll-up can legitimately exceed the family's own Schedule 13G, because a 13G is filed by one legal entity: Vanguard reports Alphabet through ten advisory entities, and The Vanguard Group Inc itself reported zero after its January 2026 disaggregation.

What the filings say against what the research found

Every holding above was also resolved directly from EDGAR through a precedence rule: the company's own filing outranks a 13D or 13G, which outranks a 13F, which outranks hand research. A 13F reports only US listed, long, US custodied positions, so it is a floor rather than a level. Where sources disagree the higher one leads and the lower is kept beside it.

No position here shows a material gap between sources.

• files no 13F
• SC 13G/A 0001193125-24-036431 is pre-XML prose, not parsed
• SC 13G/A 0001104659-24-020009 is pre-XML prose, not parsed
• SC 13G/A 0001086364-24-006980 is pre-XML prose, not parsed
• 9 further pre-XML schedules not parsed

What a reader needs to know to read these numbers

• Apple has a single class of common stock, one vote per share. There is no dual class structure and no founder control block: insiders together hold about 0.06 percent. The register is therefore an institutional story, not a control story.
• Apple does not file Form 13F. Its EDGAR filing history from 1994 to August 2026 contains 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, DEF 14A, S-3ASR, S-8, Schedule 13G and Section 16 forms, and no 13F of any type. Source: https://data.sec.gov/submissions/CIK0000320193.json
• Apple's Q3 FY2026 Form 10-Q, period ended 27 June 2026, discloses no non-marketable equity securities and no equity method investments. Its 148.6bn dollar investment portfolio is cash, money market funds, mutual funds of 1,094m dollars fair value, government and corporate debt, and mortgage and asset backed securities. The FY2025 Form 10-K contains no occurrence of the phrases non-marketable, equity investment, equity method or Globalstar. The short holdings list is a real finding, not an incomplete search.
• The Globalstar position is routinely reported in the press as Apple owning 20 percent of Globalstar, Inc. That is wrong. Globalstar's own 10-Q states Apple, referred to as the Customer, purchased 400,000 Class B Units in Globalstar Licensee LLC, the Globalstar SPE, for 400m dollars on 5 November 2024, a 20 percent equity interest in that subsidiary only. Globalstar holds 1,600,000 Class A Units, 80 percent, and consolidates the SPE as a variable interest entity of which it is the primary beneficiary. The SPE had total assets of 1,018.7m dollars at 30 June 2026 and has no commercial operations.
• The Globalstar stake is being bought out. Under the pending Amazon merger agreement, Amazon's Acquisition Sub II will acquire all of Apple's Class B Units following closing. Globalstar's 10-Q filed 6 August 2026 still describes the mergers as pending, so Apple still held the units at that date. Apple's separate 2024 prepayment agreement was amended on 13 April 2026 to raise the maximum High Power Infrastructure Prepayment Balance by about 468m dollars to about 1.58bn dollars. That is a commercial prepayment, not equity, and is excluded from holdings.
• Berkshire Hathaway has trimmed hard and then stopped. Filed 13F share counts for Apple: 300,000,000 at 31 Dec 2024, 280,000,000 at 30 Jun 2025, 227,917,808 at 31 Dec 2025, 227,917,808 at 31 Mar 2026, and 227,917,808 at 30 Jun 2026. The position is down 24 percent from the end of 2024 but has been flat for the last three reported quarters. Sources: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1067983/000095012325002701/39042.xml , https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1067983/000095012325008343/43977.xml , https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1067983/000119312526054580/50240.xml , https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1067983/000119312526352200/56757.xml
• Vanguard restructured its reporting on 12 January 2026. The Vanguard Group, Inc. filed a Schedule 13G/A on 26 March 2026 reporting zero shares of Apple, because its subsidiaries now report on a disaggregated basis. The 1,099,168,953 shares recorded here are the Vanguard Capital Management LLC group filing with event date 31 March 2026, which explicitly excludes other Vanguard subsidiaries. Total Vanguard-affiliated ownership of Apple is therefore higher than 7.48 percent. For comparison, the 2026 proxy reported The Vanguard Group at 1,415,826,462 shares, 9.63 percent, as of 30 June 2025 under the old aggregated basis. Sources: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000010290926000630/primary_doc.xml and https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000210011926000139/primary_doc.xml
• Percentages for the 13F holders are computed by this file as shares divided by 14,594,180,000 shares outstanding at 17 July 2026, the Q3 FY2026 10-Q cover page count. The Vanguard figure of 7.48 percent is the percentage stated by the filer itself against its own 31 March 2026 denominator: recomputed against the July count it is 7.53 percent. The two insider percentages use the 14,697,926,000 shares outstanding stated in the proxy at its 2 January 2026 table date.
• Buybacks move the denominator materially. Apple repurchased 62,094m dollars of stock in the nine months to 27 June 2026, including May 2026 accelerated share repurchases. Shares outstanding fell from 14,697,926,000 at 2 January 2026 to 14,594,180,000 at 17 July 2026, and weighted average basic shares fell from 14,902,886 thousand in Q3 FY2025 to 14,656,110 thousand in Q3 FY2026. Any percentage of Apple must be read with its denominator date.
• Market cap is computed as 14,594,180,000 shares times the 305.93 dollar close on 14 August 2026, the last close before the 16 August 2026 research date, giving 4,464,797,487,400 dollars. stockanalysis.com reports 4.46 trillion dollars on the same page, which agrees.
• BlackRock's Apple stake was taken from the 13F-HR filed by BlackRock, Inc., CIK 0002012383, on 7 August 2026. The BlackRock entities that previously filed holdings, including BlackRock Institutional Trust Company and BlackRock Advisors, now file 13F-NT notices pointing to that filer. Ten Apple option rows in the same filing were excluded from the share count. The 2026 proxy still cites a BlackRock Schedule 13G/A as of 31 December 2023 at 1,043,713,019 shares, 7.10 percent, which is more than two years stale.