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Apple Shares Rise as Trading Begins Following Four-for-One Stock Split
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What the hell are you talking about? Stock was up over $500 on Friday close, Opened this AM at 127.58 (4x127.58 = 510.32), CEO had nothing to do with this. I am happy my shares have gone up today 4.6% so far.
What the hell are you talking about? Stock was up over $500 on Friday close, Opened this AM at 127.58 (4x127.58 = 510.32), CEO had nothing to do with this. I am happy my shares have gone up today 4.6% so far.
I remember right after the iPhone reveal in 2007 — stock is under $100 — this is pre-7:1 split. My advisor tells me the iPhone is already built into the stock price.
Warren Buffett now has a billion shares? I wonder if he has had this many shares of any company before.
It wouldn’t be MacRumors without a liberal sprinkling of doom and gloom on a regular basis.
I ignored your advisor, and hope you did too.
In hindsight, I wonder how the advisors of the world explained the 37% price bump the year after the split. Wait... no I don't.
I remember being crushed at the time because I had bought in before that, at closer to $200. I stumbled into doing the right thing and bought more when it was down, and then more after the split. Yay AAPL.
Yeah, stumbling is a good term. Setting limit orders is the best strategy — it takes emotion off the table. I know it helped me greatly.I ignored your advisor, and hope you did too.
In hindsight, I wonder how the advisors of the world explained the 37% price bump the year after the split. Wait... no I don't.
I remember being crushed at the time because I had bought in before that, at closer to $200. I stumbled into doing the right thing and bought more when it was down, and then more after the split. Yay AAPL.
Ronald Wayne sold his 10% stake for $800. If he would have kept it, he would be the wealthiest man in the world today.
Microsoft invested in Apple in the late nineties to help them out, but sold the shares later. If they would have kept the shares, they would be the most valuable company today.
Carl Icahn sold this large stake right around $100 in 2016.
Even the smartest investors can sometimes get it wrong, so don’t feel bad if you didn’t get in. There will be opportunities again. Just be mentally ready when they occur.
Microsoft invested in Apple in the late nineties to help them out, but sold the shares later. If they would have kept the shares, they would be the most valuable company today.
Carl Icahn sold this large stake right around $100 in 2016.
Even the smartest investors can sometimes get it wrong, so don’t feel bad if you didn’t get in. There will be opportunities again. Just be mentally ready when they occur.
Really, not even that far. I bought my first Apple stocks back in 2013, when it was $700 a share. Not long after was the 7-1 split. And now a 4-1 split. So one share of that $700 would be worth...$12,000 now.
Wow. My life has so much more meaning today. Thank you master Tim, for your noble and incessant quest to nickel and dime the crap out of everyone and everything.
I think you're off by a factor of at least 3x, but yes, it still would have been a great deal.
Not sure what the issue is, you can't have the stock at 490 and show it to everybody but give it to just one man. It is called insider trading. Everybody and their mom saw this transaction. I read excactly what you showed me, and I was at the event when they issues Tim Cooke the Stock shares at 490 and everyone else for 126. And they actually showed the stock price tanking 330 points on the open.
Stock was up over $500 on Friday close, Sunday morning the stock split at $490 x 4, then dropped 490 - 127 = 363 points.
No. Get help.
You're going on ignore. Hopefully some other supersleuth will blow the lid off this amazing conspiracy you've uncovered, and I'll see the resolution there.
When the stock split each share became 4 shares and the new price of each of those new shares is 1/4 of the price of the share before the split -- you basically stay with the same amount of total money invested just with 4 times as many shares.
A lot of the younger people/readers were barely born then or young children (millennials or younger). 😂
Time was relatively different then. Some of the older people (Gen X and older) experienced the tech bubble and some lost a lot of money and still recovering around that time.
Any individual investors who had money to invest at that time would've done well.
You have a broker but have no idea how a stock split works?
I need to decide what to do with all my shares. After the split today, I have a huge amount of shares.
Holding onto them is always a good option. Holding onto Microsoft, Apple, Tesla, LMT, and others has worked well for me over the years.
Dude what is the matter with you? When the stock splits 4 for 1, the number of shares you hold increases 4x while the stock price decreases to 1/4 of what it was. And it only applies if you already own shares prior to the split execution date.
If you have 10 shares of stock valued at $40/share ($400 total value), after a 4-for-1 split you'll have 40 shares valued at $10/share ($400 total value).
If you have 1 share of stock valued at $100/share ($100), after a 10-for-1 split you'll have 10 shares valued at $10 each. The aggregate value of your holdings doesn't change just because the stock splits. If the number of shares increases while the price stays the same after a split as you think it does, then Apple's market cap would be $8 trillion today.
If you don't understand how splits work, you have no business investing in equities. Educate yourself quick before you lose your shirt doing something dumb.
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I am buying 15 more shares to add to my 20. Focusing on the long term. Hopefully, it will jump 2,000 per share then I can sell it and get back some to recover from the amount of taxes I had to pay recently. Of course, this could all go wrong. I'm gambling with my money here.
but Apple announces these new products every year, does it grow larger with every new version of a product they release? I was assuming they sell around the same units of last year.