Tim Cook's Tough Act to Follow at Apple -- WSJ

By WSJ Staff

Since Tim Cook took over as Apple's CEO in 2011, the iPhone maker's stock has soared more than 2,200%. Annualized, that gives investors a price move of about 23.5% a year, more than twice the annual gain of the Dow industrials and easily more than the S&P 500 and Nasdaq composite.

As Cook prepares to step down from the CEO role tomorrow to make room for incoming chief John Ternus, here's a look at Apple's annualized performance versus tech-stock peers and major indexes, via Dow Jones Market data.

-- Nvidia: 54.0%

-- Tesla: 43.5%

-- Amazon: 24.7%

-- Alphabet: 24.4%

-- Apple: 23.5%

-- Microsoft: 22.4%

-- Nasdaq Composite Index: 17.2%

-- S&P 500: 13.4%

-- Dow industrials: 11.0%

Read more on Cook's legacy here, and dig deeper here on where the tech giant might go next under Ternus.

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August 31, 2026 13:45 ET (17:45 GMT)