there is no money if it's always up. there should be a drop.. then up!
stocks up and down should like a poker (you will never know and you will never understand).
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Apple Reports 3Q 2021 Results: $21.7B Profit on $81.4B Revenue, New June Quarter Records
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stocks up and down should like a poker (you will never know and you will never understand).
I say this every profit report, Apple makes 21B profit over 81B revenue = 25% profit (margin?)
thats more than reasonable, why everyone says Apple charges a lot for their products? Extremely average profit margin. Maybe their products are just higher quality than the rest. Although the $700 wheels makes you scratch your head.
Ahem...I am one of those people. I would like to clarify that by doomed we mean the company values and product quality not financial success. People like Apple not because of how much money they have but because of the philosophy and quality of the user experience.
I have since retracted some of my critisms after I saw more care put into the Mac product with the release of M1, not abandoning MacOS for iOS(or merging), less concentration on emojis, and news about concentrating on software stability. +Mac Pro +new colourful iMac + updated Mac Mini.
thats more than reasonable, why everyone says Apple charges a lot for their products? Extremely average profit margin. Maybe their products are just higher quality than the rest. Although the $700 wheels makes you scratch your head.
Ahem...I am one of those people. I would like to clarify that by doomed we mean the company values and product quality not financial success. People like Apple not because of how much money they have but because of the philosophy and quality of the user experience.
I have since retracted some of my critisms after I saw more care put into the Mac product with the release of M1, not abandoning MacOS for iOS(or merging), less concentration on emojis, and news about concentrating on software stability. +Mac Pro +new colourful iMac + updated Mac Mini.
If they can just increase that hugely, they could be Google gross margin! We can only hope...
Will people who are going to self direct an investment account please look at that post. Look at Apple as well as look at the others. The worst you could so is Amazon at 1.6 times your money in 2 year, IN TWO YEARS! The worst is 60%!!
Block out the day to day nonsense noise about price action and market tabloid finance news that like to gin people up with price action. The market is massively, what I call, manipulated by extremely expensive and highly sophisticated servers. Chances you can beat them are very small. What you can do is see earnings reports last year, last quarter, this quarter then invest in these companies. You put iyour capital in there then just let it grow. Again, look at what QCassidy has provided. It is incontrovertible proof that disregarding what happened today and investing in these very good companies makes you money! Tha's how you take your hard earned paycheck and make it into paychecks that you didn't have to work for.
See how that works?
It’s just amazing that they keep putting prices up and make more money.
Genius and we should all applaud it.
Genius and we should all applaud it.
Could be. On the other hand, the smartphone is the biggest PC revolution since the PC itself. Apple got a first class ticket early on, along with Blackberry, Palm and some Androids. They were able to ride the wave smoothly and last. The smartphone revolution is not going anywhere. It will stay the entry point in anything tech in the foreseeable future.
Today wasn't a fluctuation but a predictable response to disinterest from The Street. I use these opportunities to buy low then sell shortly before earnings announcements. It's how I fund my Apple HW purchases as I am believer in that being self-financing through cap gains on the stock and dividends.
Remember two years ago when AR was the big topic on the earnings calls. Lol. That never gets mentioned anymore. Along with the Apple TV Set. Actually, I don't think the car was mentioned today.
Times change but money always rolls in.
Times change but money always rolls in.
Yes, iPhone is clearly the biggest revenue maker but it's closing in on 50%. That's the ideal target because one begets the other, a sold iPhone now significantly creates non iPhone revenue. Metrics show every 3 iPhone sales equals 2 iPhone value add purchasers (music, apps, wearables, hearables or etc etc etc). Some of this is recurring revenue that is ideal.
4 years ago it was concerning that a maturing market, smartphones, was almost 70% of Apple revenue (and the reciprocal revenue model wasn't in full gear). Growth projections in this market were only at best modest. Apple's PE / multiples reflected this slow but steady growth. But Tim Cook (I know he is hated by a large contingent here) masterfully has seed changed what the iPhone means. Now one of the most critical elements to non iPhone revenue is getting the iPhone into a user's hands. One begets the other. The huge market for watches starts with an Iphone user. Hearables most often starts with an iPhone. Apple Music/other services most often starts with an iPhone. And the multiples have been rising with it (though not exclusively because of this reciprocal revenue stream plan).
Apple the company is known to the public for the iPhone, the Macintosh Computer and the iPad. Yet next to iPhone, the biggest revenue is Services then Wearable/Hearables. This #2 and #3 revenue generator starts with an iPhone in someone's hands. 50% is where you want iPhones to be because it makes a significant part of the other 50% grow.
Interesting stat: Facebook is nearly 90% ad revenue. Google is nearing 70% Ad revenue. Microsoft is more diversified but Cloud is growing fast (way more than enough to make up for slowly sagging Windows market share). It will probably approach 40% in the next few years.
Microsoft notwithstanding, most companies have their flagship product. Few have a flagship product that so significantly drives non flagship products like Apple.
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It’s nice to see a company making life changing products, innovating, and all the while focused on privacy & the environment at the same time. No wonder they are the most prosperous company going. I love that Apple still focuses on what to leave out rather than what to add.
There’s more than one way to make money in the market, and I’m happy for you if what you’re doing is working for you. I am a long term investor. Approximately half my shares are at a cost basis of $4.86 (split adjusted) with the rest at various points along the way up to low 130s. These little ups and downs don’t make a difference to me.
This. Long term investing is the way to go. Still got quite a bit of AAPL at less than a buck, split-adjusted.
They don't if you get in at the bottom floor. We've all done that before and it's down to luck more often than not.
Majority of gamblers naturally don’t know they are ones. A tired song I heard again and again.
They also love to believe they’re invincible, until they are not.
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I'd love to buy more AAPL but it's already too large a part of my portfolio, by virtue of its insane growth. Bought some about 10-12 years ago, and bought a little more each time there was a correction. I'm up an average of 800%, with that original purchase up over 10 times. And for most of the time, it's paid dividends too.
Big believer in Warren Buffett's admonition - "It is better to buy a good company at a fair price than a fair company at a good price."
Big believer in Warren Buffett's admonition - "It is better to buy a good company at a fair price than a fair company at a good price."
You don’t have to get in at the bottom floor to be a long term investor. Warren Buffet got into AAPL well after the bottom and is still a long term (and giant) investor.