AppLovin Corp
In the published model solve dated 2026-Q2, anchored at $318.50, AppLovin Corp (APP) is priced for +43.6% growth. boothcheck publishes no house fair value, target price, or buy/sell rating; individual model outputs and user-controlled scenarios are analytical inputs, not Boothcheck targets. The narrative was composed July 25, 2026 from SEC EDGAR filings.
• AppLovin runs an advertising auction and nothing else, with the FY2025 10-K describing ⟦"Axon Ads Manager, our user acquisition solution"⟧ as the cornerstone product, matching advertiser demand to publisher supply at microsecond speed. • A 76.2% trailing operating margin is the whole argument and the whole risk: no company in its listed cohort earns anything close, and there is no contractual floor under it, since the fiscal 2026 first-quarter filing states that ⟦"Substantially all of the Comp
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1,345 institutional managers reported holding APP in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 62% of the company; the top 10 hold 33%. 125 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, BlackRock, FMR (Fidelity), among others. On the short side, 12.8M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 4% of shares outstanding (2.8 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
APP's share count grew 0.5% over the past five years even with $5.65B spent on repurchases. It pays no dividend. Cash returned over the past three years: $4.74B in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
No open-market insider buys on file at APP over the trailing three years. Absence is a fact about the company, not a signal. 14 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
APP's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-10 | +23.8% | +6.7% |
| 2023-11-09 | -3.0% | +4.4% |
| 2024-02-27 | +27.6% | +16.4% |
| 2024-05-09 | +9.9% | -3.2% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
APP's latest 8-K filings: 2026-08-05 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-06-05 (items 5.07); 2026-05-06 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-04-07 (items 5.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-02-11 (items 2.02, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Dates link to the filing on EDGAR. Nothing here is investment advice.
Model solve date: 2026-Q2
Narrative composed: July 25, 2026
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