Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

MacRumors

macrumors bot
Original poster
Apr 12, 2001
69,020
40,052


Apple's four-for-one stock split takes effect today, with the company's share price dropping from roughly $500 to around $125 as of the start of trading this morning.

aapl_post_split.jpg

The strong rise in Apple's stock price over the past five months has continued today, with shares trading nearly 3% higher in the first few minutes of trading. Apple shares have pared their gains since then, but are still up around 2% today.

Apple's overall market value of over $2 trillion is unaffected, as investors received three additional shares for every share of Apple stock they previously owned.

Article Link: Apple Shares Rise as Trading Begins Following Four-for-One Stock Split
 
It’s literally a no-brainer to buy Apple stock. It’s like a guaranteed success.
I agree, I saw so many posts bashing Robinhood Traders who can't wait to buy apple. I don't understand this thinking.. If you sat back and just invested in apple 20 years ago who knows where you would be now. When has this stock not been a guaranteed success? it just aways goes up..

Mr Bezos.. can you split amazon so I can actually afford it? lol.
 
Over the arc of time, be prepared for dramatic 40% drops. It can change on a dime. It just happened in March

For the long term investor, these drops are opportunities. Including for Apple who is taking $350 million of itself off the market everyday via buybacks
 
  • Like
Reactions: Shadows_lord
Worked at Apple for 7 years... since then, I've been with a public corp that sold itself to go private, but no company has equaled the portfolio performance that Apple stock has given me - paid for almost my entire house in cash because of them.

I was there for 10 years. 😩
I didn’t invest as much as I should’ve, but still have a veryyy decent chunk.
 
I agree, I saw so many posts bashing Robinhood Traders who can't wait to buy apple. I don't understand this thinking.. If you sat back and just invested in apple 20 years ago who knows where you would be now. When has this stock not been a guaranteed success? it just aways goes up..

Mr Bezos.. can you split amazon so I can actually afford it? lol.
You don’t even have to go back 20 years, even like the 9 months before iPhone announcement.
 
I agree, I saw so many posts bashing Robinhood Traders who can't wait to buy apple. I don't understand this thinking.. If you sat back and just invested in apple 20 years ago who knows where you would be now. When has this stock not been a guaranteed success? it just aways goes up..

Mr Bezos.. can you split amazon so I can actually afford it? lol.

Apple has been very low before. In the 90s I worked in an ex-Apple building in Cupertino. We had a number of ex-Apple employees that had options at higher prices (cost more to exercise) than the Apple market value. So worthless at that time.

As they say what goes up, will go down.

With that said, I have owned Apple since that time and am very happy I do. Also have owned for years Microsoft, Tesla, and Amazon.
 
  • Like
Reactions: johnsc3
The way the company described the split and what really happened in math terms, are two seperate things. The stock really split at $498 but investors were not able to access it till $125.00.
 
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.