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AAPL Shares Close at First All-Time Record High Since January 2022
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My initial lot of AAPL (which I still have as the color Apple Computer certificate) has a split adjusted cost basis of $0.1766 per share. Later lots average in the $24 per share range.
Since my first purchase September 9, 1996, there have been endless predictions that AAPL would fail. My portfolio says otherwise!
Since my first purchase September 9, 1996, there have been endless predictions that AAPL would fail. My portfolio says otherwise!
I sure am.
Who wouldn't want more than $100k annual div with a $AAPL portfolio that is nearly $20.6m.
In 1999 I had $5000 to invest and was debating apple or a local start up. I choose the start up. It went out of business 3 years later. The apple stock would have done…better. The internet says that would he 1.3 million now.
On my spreadsheet I have the 2-Jan-1998 price of $13.50/share.
That Pre-Split Share Price today would be $20,584.48 (@ $183.79 ATH) per 2-Jan-1998 share with a quarterly div of $25.76.
So say you bought 371 shares in 2-Jan-1998 for $5,007.02.
That specific portfolio would be worth $7,636,842.08 by now.
Quarterly dividend would be $9,556.96.
Interesting. My guess is internet doesn’t do the splits? Thanks for making me feel so so so much worse for my stupid investing decisions😂
Anytime! 😅
I often see how my $300k+ could have made me into a $ billionaire if I did not listen to my mid 40s buddy obsessed with dividends but do not care that the share price goes down faster than the div can cover for.
He's fine... Meta stock has more than doubled since November as they keep firing employees and are now outsourcing their metaverse hardware development to Apple. It'll take another business cycle before the market fully realizes that the hardware is worth keeping and the cartoon universe is a writeoff.
Few enough that I have mentally kicked myself thousands of times for not buying ten times more. Or 100 times more. But then, I probably wouldn't have kept them for nearly 40 years, either.
I did sell a small portion of the $0.17/share stocks to purchase a new Land Cruiser when they stopped selling them in the US. Nothing like buying a new vehicle for what amounts to $150 out of pocket. 😊 And the shares I bought at ~$24/share would buy a nice house most places in the US.
But I didn't buy millions of dollars worth...
Pssst tell me the year and how much cash you'd have bought it for.
$AAPL share price was $14.25 on 14-Jun-1985. This is exactly 38 years ago.
That Pre-Split Share Price today would be $41,061.44 (@ $183.79 ATH) per 14-Jun-1985 share with a quarterly div of $51.52.
Back then I had enough to buy 79 shares in 14-Jun-1985 for $1,125.47.
That specific portfolio would be worth $3,252,347.84 by now.
Quarterly dividend would be $4,070.08.
Not bad for 38 solid years.
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16 years and counting...
I see Vision Pro being the iPhone to the iPod... by 2040 it may ship 1/3rd of a billion units worldwide annually to a human population of 10.4 billion if it drops to $429-1599.
I have had my Apple shares for almost 10 years. I follow Warren Buffets advice and just hang on to it. It has done well for me. I full expected to drop right after the WWDC, as it always does. Now it is back up to record levels getting close to a 3 Trillion market cap. To all the haters and trolls, match that if you can.
“Replace”? Hmm, not so sure about that.
But I did just have a thought: the Vision Pro promo videos showed a worker “connecting” to their MacBook on their desk… but, it should also work well with a computer that does *not* have a monitor, right? I.e. you could have a desk *clean* of *any* screens and just tuck a Mac mini in a corner somewhere? Then just keep a keyboard on top, or even in a keyboard drawer, for when you have serious typing to do… (a trackpad would be redundant, assuming the eye-tracking really does work as well as in the promo vids, and as reported by some folks who got early previews).
I’m intrigued… imagine a workplace *not* cluttered with large screens, gobbling up so much electricity (but instead, having everyone walking around with goggles on their faces 😆)
....and then health insurance premiums rise for the company because of the health issues that arise as a result of wearing a headset for 8 hours a day for 5 days a week.
So, although the company saves money from their electric bills, the company will still lose money as a result of the health care costs associated with the headset.
No one is talking about it now, but just you watch - these issues will come up, we just don't know it yet.
Easily covered by their savings in electricity, display hardware, and maintenance! 😆
AAPL should hit $3 Trillion soon and AAPL stock price will increase much more in the future!!
