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Quote: Originally Posted by asdasd None of this explains a P/E ratio lower than the average. Apple would be priced for growth if its P/E ratio were higher than 15 and for revenue falls if lower. Compare Apple's P/E ratio to Exxo…
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Unless there's evidence of collusion between brokerages or some sort of insider trading, it's not illegal. As per the current rules, you can use your own trades to drive the price of a stock up or down as much as you want, although I wouldn't cal…
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Quote: Originally Posted by pembroke I recently went into an O2 shop. The salesman I spoke to was dismissive of Apple. He said he had NEVER seen an Apple sales rep come into the shop. They had a brochure listing all the phones they we…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX You said proprietary solutions. Connectors, algorithms, OSes, etc are all types of IP. Their connectors and OS are proprietary IP just like Google's search algorithms and their OS. Guess what,…
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Quote: Originally Posted by anantksundaram Down another 2% today. It's way past ridiculous. At this point, it is incumbent upon Apple's senior management to come out and address it in some measure, with a public statement. I…
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Quote: Originally Posted by newbee That's why my tagline is what it is. People trade on stock markets, and people are irrational, especially in groups. This isn't exactly a big surprise.
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Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta OK. Look at cash flow. Apple's cash flow was 30 times that number - yet Apple's stock is being dumped (with cash-adjusted P/E at 7) and Amazon is at 3500. Even the multiples of cash flow are way…
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I'd take something like the Asus Taichi or Lenovo X1 Carbon with touch over the Surface.
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Quote: Originally Posted by anonymouse I think the belief must be that although Amazon is not making money now, by underselling everyone online and offline they'll eventually put everyone else out of business and then be able to…
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To make sense of Amazon's numbers, look up what their free cash flow is each year. For 2011, their net operating cash flow was 3.9 billion, they had a decent ROE, and they bought back shares in 2012. To look simply at P/E ratios is to see a very…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta Sorry, but you're just plain wrong. Apple's market cap was higher than any company in the world last year - and they weren't offering dividends. Many large companies don't pay dividends - Google…
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Quote: Originally Posted by anantksundaram I hope you're smart enough to not confuse luck and skill. Anyway, good luck. Well, these days I make around 50 trades per year, on several exchanges (mostly Hong Kong and …
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Quote: Originally Posted by anantksundaram I thought you were making sense, until this. Are you suggesting that non-dividend-paying stocks have no value!? When growth slows and the company becomes 'mature', then dividen…
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Quote: Originally Posted by anantksundaram I sincerely hope -- for your sake -- you're not invested in the market (at least, not directly). The stock market pays my bills, university tuition, and my capital keeps growing. I doub…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta That's absolutely false. Many investors are happy to buy stock in the hopes that they will sell it for more in the future. In fact, since historically capital gains were taxed at a lower …
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Quote: Originally Posted by SockRolid Great time to get hired by Apple. You'll never get a better incentive stock option price. Apparently Google is a better place to work. More pay, more restaurants, more free massages, more free …
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Quote: Originally Posted by anantksundaram I don't think you understand the concept of a P/E ratio and how/why it's fundamentally a verdict on a company's future growth prospects, not its "current health." Best to move along…
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Quote: Originally Posted by NelsonX If you buy a cheap $100 Android phone because you don't have the money for an expensive one, you will get used to Android OS and ecosystem and next time, when you will have the money for an expensiv…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Alfiejr oh boy have you drunk the Wal Street kool aid. any purchase of equity based on "expectations" that are significantly beyond current performance - like Amazon - is "speculation," not "inves…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX Highest revenue and profits Apple has ever delivered and it's lackluster? I understand that Apple's mindshare is so large that if Tim Cook stubs his toe the stock drops a couple percent but th…