Isn't share buy back basically saying they don't know what to do with their cash?
That's right: they don't know what to do. Apple has no leadership.
Isn't share buy back basically saying they don't know what to do with their cash?
A good company is one that makes good products, makes money, doesn't lay off employees, and has happy employees.
The stock market doesn't think so. They think a good company is one who projects astronomical growth for the future irregardless of whether they have a sound business plan that makes sense, and irregardless of how much money they are making TODAY. It's all smoke, mirrors and HOPE.
Good, solid companies are shunned, because why put your money into something steady and make 5% on your money year over year? Let's bet the farm and make 100-200% every 3 months! Get rich quick!
That's the sad state of the stock market now.
They had a winning quarter-over-quarter for a while now. How come the congratulations comes now? Oh snap! It's because Apple's stock is heading south and it will be the last stunning quarter from Apple for a while.
What a way to juice your employees.
Too bad in the end Google will dominate the world with marketshare and data and services that are just a little more useful then hardware build by folks with OCD. But don't get me wrong, I love the shiny toys!
BTW "Tim Cook" is the modern day name for "Nero."
Isn't share buy back basically saying they don't know what to do with their cash?
If history is a guide, they won't have any significant new product announcements until next YEAR. I mean, all we suppose to get this year is the iPhone 5s refresh and may be iPad refresh. That is not significant to me and apparently to the stock market.That sounds a bit extreme. Apple's went through down periods when Steve Jobs was CEO. The timing is right for a town hall. They just wrapped up their busiest selling period of the year, and if history is a guide, they won't have any significant new product announcements until next quarter.
That's right: they don't know what to do. Apple has no leadership.
Isn't share buy back basically saying they don't know what to do with their cash?
If history is a guide, they won't have any significant new product announcements until next YEAR. I mean, all we suppose to get this year is the iPhone 5s refresh and may be iPad refresh. That is not significant to me and apparently to the stock market.
If history is a guide, they won't have any significant new product announcements until next YEAR. I mean, all we suppose to get this year is the iPhone 5s refresh. That is not significant to me and apparently to the stock market.
Samsung has gained ground at the high end, and so Apple's response may be to attack at the mid range.
They had a winning quarter-over-quarter for a while now. How come the congratulations comes now? Oh snap! It's because Apple's stock is heading south and it will be the last stunning quarter from Apple for a while.
What a way to juice your employees.
Too bad in the end Google will dominate the world with marketshare and data and services that are just a little more useful then hardware build by folks with OCD. But don't get me wrong, I love the shiny toys!
Simple... Apple didn't meet sales targets, esp on iPhone 5. Profit margin was down. Investors don't see anything to fuel additional growth. Shorter: Apple needs a new "big thing" product for the stock to break out on the upside again. Cook needs to deliver.
Do you think spending a few billion dollars on crappy companies, like Microsoft, HP and Google did, is better than giving the money back to the shareholders?
What???? OMG... it's simple... record quarter, but profits we're basically flat... investors wanted to see continued amazing year over year growth in profits too and that was not there. So, the stock plummeted. There's nothing "tricky" about how they report their sales.
Who cares for your "interpretation", when AAPL stock is in toilet: investors do not think anymore that "Apple is so bloody good at making money".Your interpretation is wrong. Mine is correct: Apple is so bloody good at making money, they make more than they can spend.
Apple needed a "next big thing" rollout on par with iPhone (2007) and iPad (2010) last year (2012). That didn't happen. Instead, it was just refinements of old "next big things". There better be something genuinely new (not a thinner, lighter, or different color, old NBT) this year or I suspect AAPL stock will feel even more pain. In short (and IMO), the old NBTs are not strong enough to maintain the growth slope on their own. They need a new NBT (that is not a Mac or new iDevice) to become a major source of new revenues & profits. It needed to hit in 2012 but didn't (and thus AAPL from $700 to about $460 in just the last few months).
Well, Apple spending on crappy companies has brought Siri and Apple Maps
A few things you obviously missed...
-Biggest company in the world still grew 18%. Re-read this and absorb it.
-Biggest company in the world still grew 18%. Re-read this and absorb it.
-Biggest company in the world still grew 18%. Re-read this and absorb it.
So because Apple doesn't meet a bunch of analysts who can't tell their you know what from their head, that's Apple's fault? Same analysts that haven't addressed Q4 was 1 week shorter?
The iPhone 5 was constrained by supply. Any other company would wet their pants to have 2 products that they cannot keep stocked on the shelves and Wall Street would reward those companies. iMac was down because of display yields...not because of demand.
A few things you obviously missed...
-Biggest company in the world still grew 18%. Re-read this and absorb it.
-Biggest company in the world still grew 18%. Re-read this and absorb it.
-Biggest company in the world still grew 18%. Re-read this and absorb it.
..there...now after that has sunk in to those that just don't get how substantial and mind blowing that is...
Apple still...
-Sells more iPhones in 1 quarter than did Samsung of their whole S series in 1 year.
-Cannot meet enough demand for 2 of it's products due to popularity.
-Adds 16 billion to the cash.
-Moving into China where growth is enormous.
-PC sales are down showing that tablets are all the majority need. Growth into PC % is huge.
-Quarter was 1 week shorter then last year.
There is plenty of growth potential. The issue is that Wall Street treats Apple differently.
But hey...Wall Street uses rational/logical analysis right? I mean...Google jumps $50 after losing 6% in ad revenues and $1.5B in sales revenues from a hardware business they should have never bought in the first place.
When Apple moves into Google/Androids sandbox in China and starts taking market share from them, the analysts will reward Google with something to the tune of "Well heck, that only means Google now has growth potential...buy buy buy" where if it was Apple and they lost any % points, they would go "Look at how much share Apple is losing..sell sell sell"
Apple Maps was not the result of a corporate acquisition, what are you talking about?
A good company is one that makes good products, makes money, doesn't lay off employees, and has happy employees.
The stock market doesn't think so. They think a good company is one who projects astronomical growth for the future irregardless of whether they have a sound business plan that makes sense, and irregardless of how much money they are making TODAY. It's all smoke, mirrors and HOPE.
Good, solid companies are shunned, because why put your money into something steady and make 5% on your money year over year? Let's bet the farm and make 100-200% every 3 months! Get rich quick!
That's the sad state of the stock market now.
I really wish Apple never signed the 4-5yr exclusive with AT&T way back in '07... it only gave way to this now. This is 5 years in the making now...