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The USA department of justice is going to put a real hurt on Apple soon, so you better dump your Apple stock before it crashes!
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Are SEC laws that easy to violate? Hey everybody, I think Apple stock is going to continue to increase! I may or may not own Apple stock.
Yes, I think so. People have been forced to settle with the SEC for comments made on forums for example. http://news.cnet.com/SEC,-teen-settle-Net-stock-scheme-case/...
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Computers? As in Desktop computers and laptops worldwide? I can't find current numbers but i wouldn't think that Apple has reached a global market share for desktops over 10%. Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_system... Thats what i meant. Now tell me that in _this_ area Apple is exactly worth as much as MS. MS doesn't produce computers, so the comparison is not fair. But that's why…
Wow, you are quick. He said profit, not market share. For example, Apple maybe only sell 2-3% of the entire mobile handset market, but make more profit out of any Mobile company. They make more money than Nokia, who sell 100x as many phones.
The real question is whether Apple's growth is defensible? Talking about smart phones, Apple is a latecomer to the industry, and does not have a sufficiently strong patent pool to prevent competitors like Oracle, HP and MS from encroaching. Apple is the first to deliver to the mass market affordable tablet computing and touch computing devices. This will remain growth areas, and hence Apple's willingness to accept lo…
I wouldn't necessarily say that Apple doesn't have the patent pool for mobile devices (yes, the smart phone sector included) with Apple doing a lot of innovation in the form of multitouch, OS UI design, usability and a whole other range of other things. Dismissing Apple outright is definitely the wrong thing to do.
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> Apple's is considered the beginning of things. Who says that? They could be at the top of their game right now and not see more growth and stabilizing and/or decreasing in the future. There is no way to tell, otherwise you'd be very rich already ;) > Stock value today isn't based on today, it's based on "tomorrow". Who says that? Many believe that Apple stocks are overvalued today, that's for sure. Oh, and again, t…
> "They could be at the top of their game right now and not see more growth and stabilizing and/or decreasing in the future." In the future, anything's possible. But the future is almost always a function of the past, and current trends indicate anything but a decline in Apple's growth.
Check this http://www.davemanuel.com/investor-dictionary/momentum-play-...
I think the more interesting news here is that Apple is now the second largest company in America (about $50 billion behind Exxon).
This is kind of pedantic, but I think the word valuable might be better here than largest . Apple is relatively small when compared to companies like Walmart, which has 2.1 million employees and almost 8x revenue.
Ballmer MUST go!
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Are SEC laws that easy to violate? Hey everybody, I think Apple stock is going to continue to increase! I may or may not own Apple stock.
It makes sense. Without a law like that, people with circulation/influence could manipulate the markets by buying, boosting and selling.
Consider that Apple's P/E is 24.5 and Microsoft's P/E is 13.4. Basically, while Apple may be in demand right now, Microsoft is earning almost twice as much. Also, Microsoft pays a (albeit small) dividend, whereas Apple does not.
If market trading is solely based on the ability to resell stock at a higher price how is the market expected to select companies that deliver real value to the economy?
Surely the ability of a company to consistently and stably deliver dividends to the stock holders would be the best measure of success, re-investment cases aside.
Unless I misunderstand the only shareholder value in this context is the ability to flip the stock or get a piece of the action if the company is sold.