Sorry, I mixed that up.
Because of the share buyback program, there are less shares out there and that leads to a higher profit per share. So the company isn't growing, but the individual shares are growing.
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Apple Reports Strongest Ever Quarterly Earnings: $13.1 Billion Profit on $57.6 Billion in Revenue in Q1 2014
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Because of the share buyback program, there are less shares out there and that leads to a higher profit per share. So the company isn't growing, but the individual shares are growing.
Yeah, if they paid this to me (alone) I would stay to. But they did not. All these billions amount to about a meager 2% annually. I can make this in CD deposits without any risk.
Nope. It was about half of the Q4 number last year. It did grow compared to Q3 but it does that every year since it's it gets a big boost from holiday sales.
It is not like Jobs designed everything himself. I think that APPL will continue to do just fine.
$10.6 billion in dividends for FY2013 somehow equals "does not pay dividends". Fantastic logic.The more he talks, the more she drops!
Timmy you've had plenty of time to get into the role of CEO. We need some new revenue streams for 2014. The street is tired with your current lines and your market shares aren't growing like they used to. Quit boasting about your own success and lets see something exciting!
Timmy you've had plenty of time to get into the role of CEO. We need some new revenue streams for 2014. The street is tired with your current lines and your market shares aren't growing like they used to. Quit boasting about your own success and lets see something exciting!
All of this downward movement of the stock after hours is purely because analysts were expecting 55-60 million iPhone sales?!? This is absurd! We need analysts like we need a hole in the head. They're almost always wrong and even when they are wrong, they find ways to make it seem like they were right. WTH! 55-60 million was just a random number pulled out of some analysts a$$. Who cares!
What about record earnings? Or Samsung having such an awful quarter? None of that matters? Common sense would tell us that we should base a company's potential for growth on many things and look at the big, whole picture. Stupid "anal"ysts want us to focus on a random iPhone sales number. It's assinine and completely ridiculous.
What about record earnings? Or Samsung having such an awful quarter? None of that matters? Common sense would tell us that we should base a company's potential for growth on many things and look at the big, whole picture. Stupid "anal"ysts want us to focus on a random iPhone sales number. It's assinine and completely ridiculous.
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It's not that meaningless. It highlights one inherent danger with AAPL. It remains mostly a one pony stock. Should iPhone profits decline (which they most likely will given the inevitable commoditization in this market) AAPL price may collapse very fast.
That's just about 2% annually. There are hundreds of stocks that pay more. I think my logic is solid (and apparently matches that of other investors)
2% return equals "does not pay dividends - go to your bank - you can get a no risk CD at a higher return than Apple's dividend!
Edit: I was just reiterating your earlier post @lilo777.
They probably won't break them out. They usually just give total numbers for iPad, iPhone, iPod, and mac but don't break them down into individual models.
What bank do you go to? You can't get more than about 0.25% on CDs right now.
By tomorrow afternoon it will probably be down 12-15%. Oh well, I'm in it for the long haul.
It comes down to this: Wall Street wants to write the script. Innovate, market, reduce price, commoditize, take over market share, repeat. Since most people on Wall Street have the actual intelligence of a Llama, once this dogma is in their head, it don't come out. Problem is Apple does it differently, they innovate, market, keep price steady, focus on user experience and get people to pay higher prices for better equipment and experience, don't take over market share, make most of the profits, repeat. Since the dumshit Llamas don't understand this, they assume the sky must be falling when the standard tech script isn't played out. They chase their tails, eat their own feces, and dump all their stock until someone else on a news program convinces them that it's ok...for now...at least until the next earnings call.
How can a company making almost all the profits in an industry that is getting destroyed by it, and the only other OEMs managing to actually SELL anything in this industry have to copy Apple's products have anything but an excellent outlook for the next 5 years. I think it's really clear that Apple has rewritten the technology business script, and until all the Llamas die off, this will continue. I hate being an Apple Investor because I want to invest in companies doing all the right things, makes good money, and shares a handsome dividend, AND truly cares about what they do, and Apple just keeps getting killed at a P/E ratio so low, you'd think every automated trading program in the world would buy a chunk, while Twitter and Facebook and Amazon trade at an order of magnitude higher P/E. Whatever, I enjoy being part owner of Apple...and their price WILL come back.
How can a company making almost all the profits in an industry that is getting destroyed by it, and the only other OEMs managing to actually SELL anything in this industry have to copy Apple's products have anything but an excellent outlook for the next 5 years. I think it's really clear that Apple has rewritten the technology business script, and until all the Llamas die off, this will continue. I hate being an Apple Investor because I want to invest in companies doing all the right things, makes good money, and shares a handsome dividend, AND truly cares about what they do, and Apple just keeps getting killed at a P/E ratio so low, you'd think every automated trading program in the world would buy a chunk, while Twitter and Facebook and Amazon trade at an order of magnitude higher P/E. Whatever, I enjoy being part owner of Apple...and their price WILL come back.
Yes and no. Samsung got hammered last week and it is far from a one-trick pony. But it turns out that Samsung sacrificed profits for volume. Apple actually beat the Street in terms of earnings, which means that if anything, it was Apple's more expensive products that sold better than the cheaper products. If the market were becoming overly price conscious, we'd have seen a big rush toward the 5C and Apple's earnings would have faltered even if the iPhone unit numbers increased.
It will, eventually. Chickens always come home to roost.
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Spooked by the iPhone numbers I suppose.