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post #81 of 215
11/28/11 at 2:29am
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Originally Posted by DamenS View Post

Actually I would think more of Berkshire Hathaway (not that Buffett is anti-sharemarket or shareholders by any stretch of the imagination). I know when discussing not doing share splits or paying a dividend, Steve Jobs used to bring up Buffett/Berkshire as an example he followed somewhat.

Interesting comment, thanks.

But for them (Apple and Samsung) , no matter how sales, profit, etc .. can be big, this is a secondary issue.

The only issue is worldwide domination.

This will be a facinating Kurosawa-type samourais fight to the death, where unprepared, untrained or weak players will be cut into tiny bits (as it is already the case).

There will be blood, for sure, a lot of blood (and Stock Exchange likes this). I do not think it will be Apple's one ...
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post #82 of 215
11/28/11 at 2:39am
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Originally Posted by Asherian View Post

It's really simple. You don't buy a stock based on what it did in the past or even what it did today. You buy a stock for its future performance.

It's quite obvious that the market doesn't have much faith in Apple without Jobs, and the underwhelming launch of the iPhone 4S didn't help. And yes, I'm well aware of the spin of the fastest selling iPhone ever -- a complete miracle considering it went on sale in far more countries the first day than the iPhone 4 did.

The percentage growth rate AAPL has been on has been stunning, to be sure. But the low P/E indicates that the market, as a whole, thinks the ride is over and that kind of growth is not going to continue. Especially sans Jobs.

Statistically, AAPL is undervalued for its current earnings. No doubt. But I know a great many people who now won't touch AAPL stock.

On a 2 to 5 year timescale, that might be understandable. At least you stay more alert.

But as Zaky said

Wall Street is currently modeling for massive contraction in the growth rate. Thats an unwise decision given that Apple just guided fiscal Q1 2012 this quarter for 80% earnings growth. Notice, Wall Street is modeling for 25% growth while Apple has guided for 80% growth. Who do you believe?

Of course Wall Street has been modelling for massive contraction in the growth rate next year, every year since pretty much forever. They havent been right yet. That has been going on since long before Jobs health was an issue.

And I suspect you would have to go back further than that to find a quarter where Apple didnt meet their own guidance. Oppenheimer has been doing the guidance for years. He hasn't changed.


Have Apple ever guided higher that 80%. This isn't about 2 years forward, or 5, This is about January. I can here that P/E compression creaking.
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post #83 of 215
11/28/11 at 3:03am
Zaky makes a compelling argument in favor of Apple going much higher. Even in the face of P/E compression and conservative earnings estimates we are looking at 500 a share sometime next year. But if the market gives Apple any kind of breathing room we are looking at 600 a share in 2013. This is a load-the-boat moment in my view! I am long Apple!
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post #84 of 215
11/28/11 at 3:04am
If only for a dividend. Tim apparently is rumored to be considering one.

and

APPL can be pretty volatile so not for the faint of heart. Just need to be sure you are in it for the long term and not to make a quick buck.
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post #85 of 215
11/28/11 at 3:09am
I'm convinced that what will turn this trend around is a 1-to-10 stock split. Now I KNOW that realistically there is no difference in 1 share at 400 or 10 at 40, but to a lot of the typical investors, it is. Many people I know who are afraid of AAPL say the same thing, "It's too expensive!". Bring the price down to $40 and some of those people would buy in. Enough, I'm saying, to give this stock a shot in the arm.

C'mon Tim, do it. What have we got to lose?
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post #86 of 215
11/28/11 at 3:32am
So the author thinks he knows better than the many thousands of market participants, weighing all the pros and cons, who have made the price what it is. He is smarter than *all those thousands.*

Mate, there is a place for those who think they're smarter than everybody else: Washington, D.C.
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post #87 of 215
11/28/11 at 3:49am
Eye opening article by the author! For once,a write up based on facts. Time to back up the truck - astronomic growth rates and no debt: are u kidding me? With PE compression on the one side and a ginormous cash balance acting as a floor for the stock price, for me that 2+2=>$500 in 2012! Cannot believe that investors shy away because SJ is no longer around! This ship is about to take off, people! Don't fall for rumors, they only let the big guys come in when the retail investor gives up and sells.
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post #88 of 215
11/28/11 at 4:01am
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Originally Posted by djdj View Post

But if Apple doesn't pay dividends, what do sales and earnings have to do with stock price? Stockholders aren't getting a dime of that money.

My thoughts exactly. Warren Buffet (of Berkshire-Hathaway) has said that he's not interested in owning stock that doesn't pay dividends. When large institutional investors like Berkshire-Hathaway go long in a company, they tend to buy and hold; that signals to others that it's a safe bet for a long-term investment.

Apple has followed a growth stock philosophy. They hold all of the profits in the company for acquisitions, large supply chain investments, and a huge amount of liquidity. This strategy has served them extremely well over the last few years, and I'm sure they're reluctant to change it, hence no dividend payments.

So how does one make any money off of Apple stock? Well you can buy it, and hope the stock price goes up, or you can short-sell it hoping the price goes down. Not very much like owning a piece of a business, is it?

Until Apple decides the time is right to change their stock strategy, I think the volatility will remain, and AAPL will remain one of the most manipulated stocks in the US.
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post #89 of 215
11/28/11 at 4:20am
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Originally Posted by ascii View Post

So the author thinks he knows better than the many thousands of market participants, weighing all the pros and cons, who have made the price what it is. He is smarter than *all those thousands.*

Mate, there is a place for those who think they're smarter than everybody else: Washington, D.C.

Are you seriously, with a straight face, implying that Wall Street players always have it right? You think that Wall Street investors always value and gauge a company and its Stock fairly? If that were the case, great buys and huge upswings wouldn't exist.

Hilarious.
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post #90 of 215
11/28/11 at 4:29am
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Originally Posted by frugality View Post

Wow.....amazing what you get here on these interwebs....financial advice on a Apple fanboy site...

Someone should check how much Apple stock this Zaky guy owns, and what his vested interests are in this...

So you think he made up the data?
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post #91 of 215
11/28/11 at 4:31am
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Originally Posted by Mister Snitch View Post

The market's heading down. Apple's along for the ride like everyone else. Buy it back on the upswing.

How do you get an upswing is no one is buying?
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post #92 of 215
11/28/11 at 4:35am
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Originally Posted by Suddenly Newton View Post

What an odd article. Is it news, rumor, review, or other?

All three and far more.


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Originally Posted by Wings View Post

I'm convinced that what will turn this trend around is a 1-to-10 stock split. Now I KNOW that realistically there is no difference in 1 share at 400 or 10 at 40, but to a lot of the typical investors, it is. Many people I know who are afraid of AAPL say the same thing, "It's too expensive!". Bring the price down to $40 and some of those people would buy in. Enough, I'm saying, to give this stock a shot in the arm.

C'mon Tim, do it. What have we got to lose?

I too have often wondered if this would work even though technically it makes no difference (so they say). I had thought in terms of a 2:1 but 10:1 wow ... that would put the cat among the pigeons! I could see grandparents buying a few Apple shares for the grand kids for a birthday present ( we did for ours back at $70). Like you I suspect the psychological change would attract a new type of investor, the small guys, those in it for the long term rather than the short. Tim knows all in this article better than anyone, I really wonder what's going though his mind.
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post #93 of 215
11/28/11 at 4:41am
...said the man overloaded with Apple stock.
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post #94 of 215
11/28/11 at 4:44am
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Originally Posted by Firefly7475 View Post

...said the man overloaded with Apple stock.

Hopefully that man will laugh last and longest.
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post #95 of 215
11/28/11 at 5:05am
My opinion is that Apple gets a bum rap from the Street because they do things differently - and that does not bode well for their stock. Just look at how most Street players still use RIM's blackberry and are not punishing them nearly as much as they should be given their poor long-term outlook.

They don't get it and probably won't ever get it. It's similar to the reaction you hear from some Apple hating consumers - they don't have a real justification for their hatred (a strong word, but one that does seem to reflect how many people feel).
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post #96 of 215
11/28/11 at 5:09am
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Originally Posted by jmgregory1 View Post

My opinion is that Apple gets a bum rap from the Street because they do things differently - and that does not bode well for their stock. Just look at how most Street players still use RIM's blackberry and are not punishing them nearly as much as they should be given their poor long-term outlook.

They don't get it and probably won't ever get it. It's similar to the reaction you hear from some Apple hating consumers - they don't have a real justification for their hatred (a strong word, but one that does seem to reflect how many people feel).

In theory investors don't have to like or dislike the products of a company they invest in, they just do it to make money, not that I disagree with you that this does go on to some extent. However, there is something larger going on here than simply the anti Apple sentiment surely.
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post #97 of 215
11/28/11 at 5:21am
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Originally Posted by frugality View Post

Wow.....amazing what you get here on these interwebs....financial advice on a Apple fanboy site...

Someone should check how much Apple stock this Zaky guy owns, and what his vested interests are in this...

... and yet you come here time and again to read and discuss
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post #98 of 215
11/28/11 at 5:22am
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Originally Posted by ascii View Post

So the author thinks he knows better than the many thousands of market participants, weighing all the pros and cons, who have made the price what it is. He is smarter than *all those thousands.*

Mate, there is a place for those who think they're smarter than everybody else: Washington, D.C.

^^^ this
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post #99 of 215
11/28/11 at 5:24am
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Originally Posted by Godzilla View Post

Are you seriously, with a straight face, implying that Wall Street players always have it right? You think that Wall Street investors always value and gauge a company and its Stock fairly? If that were the case, great buys and huge upswings wouldn't exist.

Hilarious.

Always right? No of course not. Always fairly? Yes. By definition.
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post #100 of 215
11/28/11 at 5:56am
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Originally Posted by Asherian View Post

It's really simple. You don't buy a stock based on what it did in the past or even what it did today. You buy a stock for its future performance.

It's quite obvious that the market doesn't have much faith in Apple without Jobs, and the underwhelming launch of the iPhone 4S didn't help. And yes, I'm well aware of the spin of the fastest selling iPhone ever -- a complete miracle considering it went on sale in far more countries the first day than the iPhone 4 did.

The percentage growth rate AAPL has been on has been stunning, to be sure. But the low P/E indicates that the market, as a whole, thinks the ride is over and that kind of growth is not going to continue. Especially sans Jobs.

Statistically, AAPL is undervalued for its current earnings. No doubt. But I know a great many people who now won't touch AAPL stock.

The future of a stock's performance is of course based on past performance, anyone who does any sort of prognostication in any field will confirm that - the stock market is a major proponent of that simple fact, and you can't simply reverse the whole underpinnings of the financials market to suit your opinion.

The iPhone 4S was anything but underwhelming and calling out wider delivery to other countries is rather silly. Would you have rather they continued to ignore or delay these other countries for the mere convenience of being same/same for comparison purposes to the iPhone 4 launch? That requires an absurd level of denial. If anything the market would (under other circumstances and with another company perhaps) have REWARDED such strategy.

The market as a whole is not trading in AAPL stock, there are specific reasons that the P/E ratio is being suppressed. Most other companies in the same category are underperforming and Apple is the only one that is overperforming. If you look at the primary stockholders for AAPL, you will see the actual reason behind the supression of the P/E ratio. The primary shareholders in Apple stock include FMR, Vanguard, State Street, T. Rowe Price, BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, Capital World Investors, Capital Research Global Investors, Invesco Ltd., JP Morgan Chase, Northern Trust Corp, Fidelity Contra, GFA, Powershares, and College Retirement Equities. 70% of Apple stock is held by these institutional shareholders. Understanding that, it is simple to look for them to attempt a "slingshot" effect by supressing Apple stock until the P/E ratio pressure is high enough to push it into rapid decompression effectively driving the valuation up to a significantly higher hold point. At which point they can begin doing the same thing all over again. These institutional investors are playing with Apple stock because it is the strongest performer in the market among the large cap set.

So the "great many people" you know that won't touch Apple stock are going to be very chagrined when these investors release the pressure on Apple stock and let it snap up to the next hold point.
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post #101 of 215
11/28/11 at 6:08am
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Originally Posted by DamenS View Post

Idiot. Do you have an actual response to this person's claims, are you just trolling yourself, or do you believe that every opinion which runs counter to yours is a personal attack (in which case, please get over yourself) !!

[EDIT]: I withdraw my comment based on your further posts.
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post #102 of 215
11/28/11 at 6:11am
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Originally Posted by Dlux View Post

What - this one wasn't enough?!?

Yeah... Couldn't he have put it on a bumper sticker so that you wouldn't have to think so hard?
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post #103 of 215
11/28/11 at 6:13am
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Originally Posted by ascii View Post

So the author thinks he knows better than the many thousands of market participants, weighing all the pros and cons, who have made the price what it is. He is smarter than *all those thousands.*

Mate, there is a place for those who think they're smarter than everybody else: Washington, D.C.

Knee jerk right wing ism much?
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post #104 of 215
11/28/11 at 6:23am
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Originally Posted by cameronj View Post

Always right? No of course not. Always fairly? Yes. By definition.

I think AMZN would prove that theory wrong. Trading at a P/E of 100 with a poor outlook and a not so impressive Quarter. I don't see the logic behind assuming Amazon will grow so rapidly while Apple would stagnate, considering past performance more than squashes that, along with logical assumptions about the future, and both companies positions to maintain and accelerate growth.
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post #105 of 215
11/28/11 at 6:58am
I think some of the anti-Apple sentiment isn't directed at the products per se, but the way they run the company. From Steve Jobs' non-financial background to seemingly wise anti-divendend paying - they are not playing the game the way the Street expects. The Street seems to reward loss and short-term thinking more than sales, profits and long term strategy, at least in Apple's case.
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post #106 of 215
11/28/11 at 7:19am
Looks like someone has just learned to do bar graphs.
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post #107 of 215
11/28/11 at 7:19am
World is always full of conflict and ridiculous. People always want to buy some stocks ...

- extremely high P/E and without solid earnings support (Amazon...)

- small price stocks and hope to their prices will go up quickly

- feel expensive when the stock price is higher then $100

- prefer some companies with high gearing ratio (Debt > Asset)

- Ignore the importance of free Cash

- Higher market share stocks without considering the actual net profit %

- me-too and Copy Cat companies (Dell, M$, Samgsung, HTC....)
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post #108 of 215
11/28/11 at 7:20am
The most possible reason why AAPL is undervalued is Someone big is pushing it down to collect cheap AAPL for the 1st result . Every TimE is cheating scared investors like this !!!!
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post #109 of 215
11/28/11 at 7:23am
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Originally Posted by KC_150 View Post

World is always full of conflict and ridiculous. People always want to buy some stocks ...

- extremely high P/E and without solid earnings support (Amazon...)

- small price stocks and hope to their prices will go up quickly

- feel expensive when the stock price is higher then $100

- prefer some companies with high gearing ratio (Debt > Asset)

- Ignore the importance of free Cash

- Higher market share stocks without considering the actual net profit %

- me-too and Copy Cat companies (Dell, M$, Samgsung, HTC....)


Wise comment, probably based on first hand stock exchange experience ... (I mean it, this is no joke)
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post #110 of 215
11/28/11 at 7:35am
Must be the Warrent Buffet in me but I am an old school investor. What happen with Apple over the years is all the growth has been taken out of the price. The current P/E went from 30 (which is bad) to 13 (which is good).

A P/E below 15 on a stock that is not in a decline makes it "safe". Now if you think the stock still has growth in it, that means the stock is at a bargain price.

The opposite of this are insane P/E stocks. Those stocks are extremely risky: look at NFLX (it went down like a bag of potatoes and now the P/E is better) or AMZN (that thing is going to crash at some point because its impossible to produce enough growth to match that p/e). The thing I would like is Apple to start paying dividends because why am I investing if something if I dont have part of the profits? fundamentals is key here.
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post #111 of 215
11/28/11 at 8:06am
dear AAPL investors,

I'm also very long AAPL and understand your frustration, Andy makes a solid case for being long AAPL.

I would suggest you look into shorting S&P 500 futures vs. your long AAPL position on a 20-40 delta.(i.e. for $1,000,000 long of AAPL you short $200,000- $400,000 of S&P futures).
As the market heads lower(and takes AAPL lower with it), you slowly buy back your short S&P 500. As the market heads higher, you slowly increase your short S&P delta.

The advantages of this strategy:
1. This is a good way to profit on the markets volatility.
2. You'll receive AAPL's outperformance of the S&P 500 over the next few years.
3. You get less emotional about the overall market
4. The short-term gains you receive in S&Ps, after re-adjusting your delta, are taxed at a 60/40 rate(short term/long term)


" the stock owner should not be too concerned with erratic fluctuations in stock prices, since in the short term, the stock market behaves like a voting machine, but in the long term it acts like a weighing machine"

-Ben Graham
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post #112 of 215
11/28/11 at 8:21am
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Originally Posted by TBell View Post

Investing means contributing money to a company to help it grow and to benefit from that "investment" if the company does in fact grow.

None of the money that one invests is "contributed to a company to help it grow", unless you are buying stock directly from the company, such as in an IPO.

Your entire premise is incorrect, and so too are your conclusions.
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11/28/11 at 8:21am
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Originally Posted by macinthe408 View Post

It's unfortunate that no one but the British will properly parse the sarcasm pasted all over this article. Without a doubt the best AI article I've read in a long time.

Couldn't agree more. The poster that was complaining about financial news on an Apple fanboy site must not realize that many of us here own substantial amounts of Apple stock (in my case tens of thousands of dollars and I'm sure there are others with hundreds of thousands or more). I read this website as an indicator of the market segment and AAPL in particular. I already know most of the information in the article, but it is certainly an appropriate and good article for AI to publish.
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post #114 of 215
11/28/11 at 8:25am
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Originally Posted by ConradJoe View Post

None of the money that one "invests" in a stock goes to the company to "help it grow", unless you are buying stock directly from the company, such as in an IPO.

Your entire premise is incorrect, and so too are your conclusions.

You are only half right. Most companies, including AAPL have stock that is "on the shelf" and can be used by the company at any time to serve its own purposes. For example, shelf stock is often used to compensate management for doing a good job. And yes, the stock price will have a direct impact on how the recipients of this stock are motivated to stay with the company or wait out the period of time necessary for the stock to vest. If you subscribe to the theory that a company is only as good as the people running it, then the stock price is a critical aspect of building a company because it can be used to recruit and keep talented people.
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11/28/11 at 8:27am
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What happened? Did you just take a 'teenager pill'?


I was just condensing the content of the article. Trying to get into the spirit of things.
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post #116 of 215
11/28/11 at 8:37am
It really isn't clear why AAPL is behaving the way it is. Personally I think the biggest problem with AAPL is its market cap. Large institutions can only have so much of single stock because of the principles of diversification. Take for example that the NASDAQ 100 index had to readjust its weighting of AAPL earlier this year to bring it down to 20%. Let me say that again "down to 20%". Do you see the problem? AAPL is making such a large percentage of the profits in the tech world that it is making it difficult for large institutions that invest in Tech to remain diversified. The number crunchers that tell the institutions when they are overweight a stock are forbidding their institutions from bulking up on more AAPL stock. It isn't that the managers don't want to buy it or don't see the value; rather it is the number crunchers that are telling the managers they can't buy it based on a rigid rule.

You can see more evidence of this scenario in the fact that AAPL has been used recently as a hedge against volatility. When the market plunges, investors are moving into AAPL short term as a hedge against risk because there is so much value in AAPL because of its good balance sheet.
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11/28/11 at 8:47am
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Originally Posted by Pooch View Post

i'm with frugality on this one. what are the holdings of the author? and why does the original article mention that they're a holder, when the article as posted in the comments says just the above? edit?

and how about the timing? what would this article have read like just five weeks ago, when aapl was trading in the mid 420s?

i'd like to see an in-depth analysis by someone who doesn't have money at stake in the game. cuz i'll guarantee you, zaky is in it for the money.

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That's BS. Having AAPL Shares doesn't discredit ones opinion, namely when they're stating facts and logistics. In fact, it backs up their claims as they're putting their money where their mouths are.

There's a difference between corrupt hyperbole and logical arguments for something you believe in/are invested in.

is he really putting his money where his mouth is? or is he trying to shore up his position? (and "logistics"? no.)

but no-one truly knows, do they? unless they have complete information on zaky's holdings, including dates, volumes, and prices. was he compensated for this piece? how much and by whom?

pony up, zaky.
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post #118 of 215
11/28/11 at 8:47am
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Originally Posted by fecklesstechguy View Post

The future of a stock's performance is of course based on past performance, anyone who does any sort of prognostication in any field will confirm that - the stock market is a major proponent of that simple fact, and you can't simply reverse the whole underpinnings of the financials market to suit your opinion.

The iPhone 4S was anything but underwhelming and calling out wider delivery to other countries is rather silly. Would you have rather they continued to ignore or delay these other countries for the mere convenience of being same/same for comparison purposes to the iPhone 4 launch? That requires an absurd level of denial. If anything the market would (under other circumstances and with another company perhaps) have REWARDED such strategy.

The market as a whole is not trading in AAPL stock, there are specific reasons that the P/E ratio is being suppressed. Most other companies in the same category are underperforming and Apple is the only one that is overperforming. If you look at the primary stockholders for AAPL, you will see the actual reason behind the supression of the P/E ratio. The primary shareholders in Apple stock include FMR, Vanguard, State Street, T. Rowe Price, BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, Capital World Investors, Capital Research Global Investors, Invesco Ltd., JP Morgan Chase, Northern Trust Corp, Fidelity Contra, GFA, Powershares, and College Retirement Equities. 70% of Apple stock is held by these institutional shareholders. Understanding that, it is simple to look for them to attempt a "slingshot" effect by supressing Apple stock until the P/E ratio pressure is high enough to push it into rapid decompression effectively driving the valuation up to a significantly higher hold point. At which point they can begin doing the same thing all over again. These institutional investors are playing with Apple stock because it is the strongest performer in the market among the large cap set.

So the "great many people" you know that won't touch Apple stock are going to be very chagrined when these investors release the pressure on Apple stock and let it snap up to the next hold point.

I think you place too much emphasis on the ability of the large institutional investors to coordinate their efforts. These guys are as greedy as they come. There is no way they can work together to accomplish what you suggest because they could never trust one another. I agree that the price is being controlled by the large institutional investors, but I think the controlling factor is the need for diversification, not conspiracy theory.

I think the lesson here is that AAPL is a great long term investment for individual investors. It has the least risk and good growth potential of any stock out there.
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post #119 of 215
11/28/11 at 8:55am
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Originally Posted by Snowdog65 View Post

Why does this stock booster article (by a company that owns stock) claim P/E of 8.25 on the front page when the actual P/E is 13? No self interest in making it look even more "undervalued"?

My guess is that 13 is trailing, based upon actual performance, while 8.25 is leading, based upon guesswork as to the future.
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11/28/11 at 9:00am
I'll be the cynic here. So who is this guy. He's the guy that if you go to his website and give him $150/mo. he will share this type of information with you. He will tell you on his website that they started back in 2008 and have stellar predictive results since. Three years and running. He is predicting that the stock of one of the most successful companies is going to go up! He is a graduate of UCLA law school and now a Wall Street guy. So now we are going to start listening again to lawyers and Wall street types? Will America ever learn.
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