Apple spends about $50 billion in capital expenditure over the next five years (by 2025-12-26).

What counted as right

Status

resolved

Settled on

2025-12-26

Resolves TRUE if Apple's cumulative capital expenditure (payments for acquisition of property, plant and equipment, per its reported cash-flow statements) over the five years to 2025-12-26 totals approximately $50 billion, taken as the band $40bn-$60bn (±20%); outside that band resolves FALSE.

Both reasonable window alignments land inside the criterion's stated $40bn-$60bn band and agree closely with each other: the exact date-aligned window 2020-12-26 to 2025-12-27 totals $53.787B, and the simpler FY2021-FY2025 fiscal-year sum totals $54.914B. The $1.1B spread between the two methods is immaterial relative to the $20B-wide band, so the finding is insensitive to how the window is aligned. All figures come from Apple's own SEC-filed cash-flow statements via the EDGAR XBRL API (primary source), using exactly the line item the criterion names. The final input, Q1 FY2026 capex, was filed 2026-01-30, after the 2025-12-26 deadline, so the record only became verifiable at that filing date; resolved_on is set to the criterion window close rather than the filing date. No conflicting evidence found. No outcome value assigned.

Sources

• Apple (AAPL) Stock at $132 After Apple Car: Buy Now Or Wait?

  YouTube - Tom Nash · 2020-12-26

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