Apple Is the Best-Performing "Magnificent Seven" Stock This Year. But It Has Still Lagged This Unassuming Dividend Stock (That Remains a Top Buy Now).

Key Points Apple is on a roll, almost doubling the market's return this year. Target is doing even better, more than quadrupling the market in 2026. Despite rising more than 60% this year, Target trades at 15 times forward earnings, with a dividend yield of nearly 3%. 10 stocks we like better than Target › Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is checking off a lot of boxes that investors like to see this year. Its new line of iPhone devices is turning heads, building on the momentum it generated with last fall's iPhone 17 rollout. Later this week, Apple kicks off fiscal 2027, which analysts expect to culminate with the consumer tech tastemaker posting back-to-back years of double-digit revenue growth for the first time in 15 years.