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Apple Becomes Most Valuable Publicly-Traded Stock Ever
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Actually, a short-term small bubble. I do plan to sell soon, but I am going to stay long-term.
Apple does have reason to be valued this high, but I think the stock will take a dip just from the normal up/down that the market usually follows. And I doubt Tim Cook will be a big innovator, which wouldn't be a problem for the stock if people weren't so confident in Apple innovating. So I'm selling for now, buying during the next BS European crisis.
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I made >$100 today for doing nothing. Thanks, Apple.
I meant my comment about the 'Android Stock' thing as sarcasm. I'm glad you took it the way I intended.
In a serious note, there is no way that Apple can have the highest worth of any company if it's just because of 'fanboys' and 'sheep'. Fanboys and Sheep can't increase the sales of Apple exponentially, they can only make a solid core base.
I don't get the Android fans / haters who think smoke and mirrors and shiny devices are what is propelling Apple to great heights. It's actually damn good products which are doing it.
Apple doesn't buy a ton of companies. They've had a fair amount recently, but they always try to be strategic with their acquisitions, and rarely grab companies for the products they're making directly. They mostly grab companies in order to get their employees working for Apple, and sometimes to use something they created in one of Apple's products.
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Uhhh... I don't think so..
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What Am I Waiting For?!
I should probably get on buying some shares, I feel like if I wait any longer it will go over 1k without me realizing it.
I should probably get on buying some shares, I feel like if I wait any longer it will go over 1k without me realizing it.
Perfect. And how did Apple even get fans in the first place? I'm not really an Apple fan, but Apple has certainly earned my trust with their satisfactory products.
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I don't think now is a good time to buy, but do as you wish. My dad told me to sell my Apple stock back when it was at $280 because my portfolio was too unbalanced, and I listened to him. Who needs a balanced portfolio when you have Apple coming out of the Great Recession?
Not quite - adjusting for inflation, Apple will have to get to some 840+ billion before it really surpasses the actual value of Microsoft's 1999 record. It's like 'Avatar' versus 'Gone With The Wind'. Avatar would have to more than double it's domestic gross 'record' of 760 million to surpass GWTW's inflation adjusted domestic gross of 1.6 billion in ticket sales.
Don't start cheering yet.
Don't start cheering yet.
You didn't buy or own Apple stock? How sad for you if you didn't buy any. And of course people were predicting that Apple stock was a bubble when it was $200/share. If you are smart enough to not be any emotional stock buyer and ride out the small dips, Apple is a great long term stock to own.
So people that have bought Apple stock are pathetic fanboys with no mind of their own? To me those are the smart people knowing a good investment when they see one.
In order for there to be a bubble, there has to be some underlying fundamental issue that must be called out that contrasts the actual reason why that bubble is inflating.
In terms of the Dot.Com era, it was the fundamental issue that those companies never made money and were funded by venture captialists yet their stocks continued to rise on unrealistic business models.
In terms of the Housing bubble, it was the fundamental issue that loans and mortgages we're being made to unqualified borrowers which in turn created false demand. The fundamental safeguards in place were removed and anyone could borrow money.
As for Apple, they are continuing to expand into all countries with products that are outselling almost all competition's products across all platforms.
So you will have to actually back up your 'bubble' talk with some sort of facts...not opinion.
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My father told me the same thing.
He sold his. I told him he was making a mistake and really didn't understand what Apple had going back in 2007-2008.
I held on to mine.
Every time I see him, my first conversation piece is 'What did Apple close at today?
In terms of buying, I think Apple is going to split soon. The stock is becoming unaffordable for most other then hedge funds and big wall street types. Don't be surprised to see that happen in the next year.
I wish I could go back in time and buy a bunch of Apple's stocks!
So did Bill Gates, oh wait...
Not relative at all actually. Microsoft stock has been flat at best since 1999, while Apple has seen significant growth.
It's mainly been flat due to Ballmer being in charge....don't see him lasting there much longer...many want him out of there because he's basically ruined the company for the most part with his idiotic comments and leadership. Some of his best...
“There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. It’s a $500 subsidized item. They may make a lot of money. But if you actually take a look at the 1.3 billion phones that get sold, I’d prefer to have our software in 60% or 70% or 80% of them, than I would to have 2% or 3%, which is what Apple might get.”
-Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, 30 April 2007
-Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, 30 April 2007
“$500 fully subsidized with a plan! I said that is the most expensive phone in the world and it doesn’t appeal to business customers because it doesn’t have a keyboard, which makes it not a very good email machine …. I like our strategy. I like it a lot….Right now we’re selling millions and millions and millions of phones a year, Apple is selling zero phones a year. In six months, they’ll have the most expensive phone by far ever in the marketplace and let’s see… let’s see how the competition goes.”
Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, 17 January 2007
Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, 17 January 2007
I do believe Microsoft will 'pop' soon ..probably gain $10-$20 dollars in the next year with their Windows 8 tablets...they'll probably move into the #2 spot over the next year.
Do that and you play a dangerous game that you will probably lose. I've been an AAPL stockholder for 15 years, and my experience tells me that if I'd ever tried to time the stock's rises and falls, I'd be a lot poorer today.
got in at $11.21
I got in at around $16.00. When the stock doubled I sold it all to buy a new car.
I thought I had made a good move at the time.
If I'd held it till now I'd have about $750,000.
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