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Analysts Look Toward $1000 Share Price, $1 Trillion Market Cap for Apple
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ghsDUDE
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Apple should send a big thing of flowers over to Waterloo and thank RIM. I'm curious as to how much of this growth is coming directly out of the ashes of RIM. Speaking from my pool of friends; 40 percent who had a BB last year have an iPhone 4S. Out of those that remain - i'd say 90% are waiting for the iPhone5 to bail - myself included.
Be careful what you wish for ...
Hate to be a downer here, but ...
Does anyone remember Iomega's stock rise and quick crash? A hot commodity can either fail because it hits saturation or something out of the blue takes its' place. In the case of Iomega the recordable CD killed them. I fear Apple's failure will be saturation with nothing new in the wings or a way to lower pricing on their current products to such a point new markets open up.
FYI - I have Apple gear and love it, I also had Iomega gear and now use HD's and recordable DVDs for backing up.
Hate to be a downer here, but ...
Does anyone remember Iomega's stock rise and quick crash? A hot commodity can either fail because it hits saturation or something out of the blue takes its' place. In the case of Iomega the recordable CD killed them. I fear Apple's failure will be saturation with nothing new in the wings or a way to lower pricing on their current products to such a point new markets open up.
FYI - I have Apple gear and love it, I also had Iomega gear and now use HD's and recordable DVDs for backing up.
I think what he is trying to get at is that if someone is not in the financial position to afford a stock that runs around $1,000 per share, they are not stupid, but rather, investing in individual stocks is not a suitable investment for them. They would be better off investing in a tracking or mutual fund or other funds that are cheaper to own, but the fund itself is correlated to the desired sector and is more diversified.
As far as Apple goes, I think they are a financially solid company, but by 2014 have a market cap of $1 trillion?!?! Sounds like these analysts own Apple and want to push up the stock price before selling it off...
To understand how much this is, that's roughly the amount of GDP or value created in a country like Mexico, South Korea or almost even Australia in an entire year (heck, its 2/3 of Russia's GDP!).
What is important to look at is not the price per share so much (yes, Berkshire A shares trade at over $100,000 per share). It is important to look at market cap to understand the total value of the company. Market cap is the price per share x the total number of shares. Apple's current Market Cap is just about $586 billion, the highest of any other company currently.
The highest market cap ever recorded was Microsoft in 1999 at $619 billion...
Absurd
Yeah, like Apple's CEO and a bunch of directors just sold many of their shares because they don't like money that much. Obviously an ANALYST knows more about the future of the company them the super bunch of people running the company.
Yeah, like Apple's CEO and a bunch of directors just sold many of their shares because they don't like money that much. Obviously an ANALYST knows more about the future of the company them the super bunch of people running the company.
DUDE 1 trillion is 7 percent of US GDP, and over 1 percent of GLOBAL GDP.
Find out who this guys drug dealer is and get his number because he is selling some good stuff. Maybe you can sell it to your friends and make some cash of the trade.
This is a parabolic bubble dont stand anywhere under it.
Of course one should never do that unless it's a whim/gamble. My Apple stock is only 12% of my stock holdings. It's Baidu that's going to kill me if it crashes, not Apple! 😛
Rodimus Prime
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personally I say this could be yet another case that Apple needs to break up into smaller company. It pro software division should been spun off completely and I could agrue that the high end desktop/ server should be spun off as well. Apple could easily be broken into a computer division and a mobile division.
FuNGi
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Yeah, but they're already over half way there. Comparing to some % of global GDP may seem unattainable but it isn't. California's economy used to be ranked 10 in the world. Big deal.
I'm thinking of putting in $20,000 in AAPL. If the stocks reach $1,000 then I've just made ~$13,000 and won't care what % of Spain's GDP that is.
Until you sell that money is not yours. Period. Not only is it not your money but it even says so in prospectus.
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What is with the "dude" term - what, are 15 years old or so?
There is something familiar about you and your rant - but I could not remember your name.
Then it dawned on me - I have heard of you
CHICKEN LITTLE 😱 😱
Have we all lost our minds? Never mind investing in renewable energy research or cancer cures, let's dump a TRILLION dollars into making iPads. Something is wrong here.
Listen folks if you think this is going to happen go right ahead.
This is a Massive parabolic bubble. Pump and dump to the moon.
Go ahead and trust the pumpers and then when they are the dumpers you will be the one to get dumped on.
And I will come on here and say I TOLD YOU SO!!!!!
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Guys this just isn't Apple. Heck people are calling the nasdaq the appldaq now. Because of the percentage of that market. When Apple goes it takes the whole thing with it.
If you dig a big enough hole in the ground and keep digging it will fall in on you. Without side wall shoring it will fall in on you very quickly and squash you like a bug.
FuNGi
macrumors 65816
Man, I ain't coming back here unless I got some $$$ to show - then I'll tell you!
If you just dig the walls out at a broader angle it won't' fall on you... At least that's what they did with the Panama Canal.😎
The hyperbolic rhetoric of this guy rotorblade69 is beyond the pale for the EXPERIENCED and SUCCESSFUL investor.
Wonder how much actual investing he has done ??
Wonder how much actual investing he has done ??
Wait you think there is not shoring in the Panama Canal??? Dig out the walls at a broader angle? Nature will bend you over and show you broader angles. Better get some AstroGlide.
The opposite is true in the reverse.
The hyperbolic charts look all great and amazing until you start to sell, when you sell I guarantee you will be late to the door with the HFT's standing in the doorway. The fall will be 5 times faster than the rise.