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AAPL 52-week position: the current reading and its track record

AAPL’s current 52-week position reading and what that signal has historically been followed by.

AAPL is currently at 95.5% of its 52-week range, as of 2026-10-16.

This page covers Apple Inc. (AAPL) — its current 52-week position reading and the measured historical record of what AAPL 52-week position extremes were followed by.

How to read this. These figures are measured only on instruments currently covered by this site — a set of companies that survived. Signals that appear to have ‘worked’ on the downside are conditioned on these names having recovered; a company that fell and never came back would not be here to measure. Read every number below as a property of this surviving sample, not a universal rule, and never as advice.

All figures are ‘excess’ returns — measured relative to each instrument’s own historical drift, not relative to the market. This is not alpha and not a market-beating claim; it isolates the signal from the instrument’s background trend. Measured from the first day each signal appeared (not its most extreme point), so it reflects what was knowable in real time.

Measured across AAPL’s 52-week position history from 1982 to 2026: 100 high-extreme episodes and 43 low-extreme episodes. High-extreme readings were followed by +0.52% excess at 5 sessions and +1.66% by 20; low-extreme readings were followed by +1.46% excess at 5 sessions and +3.20% by 20.

On this signal, the most recent episode in which AAPL was at a high extreme began on 2026-09-25; the most recent in which it was at a low extreme, on 2022-12-27.

Outcomes are measured for episodes up to 2026-09-25, the most recent with enough later sessions to score. The current reading above is from a later date, 2026-10-16.

When AAPL was at a high extreme

Across 100 past episodes where AAPL was at a high extreme on this signal, the 99 with a complete 20-session forward window beat AAPL’s own trailing drift by 1.66 percentage points on average (57% of those 99 beat drift).

AAPL forward excess return vs its own drift after high-extreme 52-week position readings, by horizon.
horizonexcess vs own driftbeat-drift rateepisodes with a complete horizon
1 session+0.01%37%100
5 sessions+0.52%55%100
20 sessions+1.66%57%99

When AAPL was at a low extreme

Across 43 past episodes where AAPL was at a low extreme on this signal, the close 20 sessions later beat AAPL’s own trailing drift by 3.20 percentage points on average (56% of episodes beat drift).

AAPL forward excess return vs its own drift after low-extreme 52-week position readings, by horizon.
horizonexcess vs own driftbeat-drift rateepisodes with a complete horizon
1 session+1.56%42%43
5 sessions+1.46%44%43
20 sessions+3.20%56%43

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