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Apple's 1Q 2008 Conference Call Today

Not so.... not at alll....

Apple could have released the most amazing and inventive new products of ALL time at MacWorld, and still, they'd see the decline in their stock prices right now.

It has NOTHING to do with investors looking at the potential or quality of the products being made, and EVERYTHING to do with investor fear across the board. With most big financial investors buying up portfolios of hundreds of companies at a time, and generally treating them as a "package" - individual greatness gets "lost in the mix", relative to things like federal govt. sending out news that the entire economy is in a state of slow-down.


MikeTheC said:
Of course, if the Stevenote had been a bit better and had better product releases to have introduce, it might not have been smacked down like that.

Naturally, wise people should be buying AAPL right now. ;)
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kingtj said:
Apple could have released the most amazing and inventive new products of ALL time at MacWorld, and still, they'd see the decline in their stock prices right now.

It has NOTHING to do with investors looking at the potential or quality of the products being made, and EVERYTHING to do with investor fear across the board. With most big financial investors buying up portfolios of hundreds of companies at a time, and generally treating them as a "package" - individual greatness gets "lost in the mix", relative to things like federal govt. sending out news that the entire economy is in a state of slow-down.
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Exactly. Even in better times for the markets, AAPL has been subjected to 10-20% drops. This one is worse than most, but then, the market is currently grief-stricken.
 
I predict that Apple sold close to 2.474 million Macs between October and December.
 
Hi, i'm new to the stock market, and REALLY wanna buy some apple shares, can anyone suggest if now is a good time to do that, or is it very very unstable?

i would be looking to invest about 6000$
 
MrT8064 said:
Hi, i'm new to the stock market, and REALLY wanna buy some apple shares, can anyone suggest if now is a good time to do that, or is it very very unstable?

i would be looking to invest about 6000$
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Rule #1 don't take stock advice from random people on the Internet.
 
i suggest you don't buy them now...
they're only gonna go down in value with the recession of the US economy. Anything apple releases isn't gonna change that!
 
Stridder44 said:
Exactly. Wait till it's low and then buy buy buy.
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Thats much easier said than done.


If you are planning on investing money for the long term at this point I do not see it mattering too much. Apple has taken a pretty significant drop so this cant be the worst time to get in. AAPL has a great company with amazing fundamentals, no debt, and lots of cash.

If you buy and hold it wont matter as much. Just realize it could keep dropping, but if you hold you will end up green. But what if the markets turned around next week. Recently with AAPL when it lost 20% it shot back up and then some extremely fast. You could miss out on the run up.

It goes either way.
 
macdaddy121 said:
Yeah, but now it is only down $2.....I missed out this morning. I swore I would buy more once it went below $150 and I decided to sleep in and come to work late today.....got here in time to see it around $153....:mad:
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Sounds like you need to learn about limit orders.

MikeTheC said:
Of course, if the Stevenote had been a bit better and had better product releases to have introduce, it might not have been smacked down like that.
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Hard to tell if you're being sarcastic. In case you're not, the main reason for the stock drop is the huge drops in the broader markets. Pretty much all stocks have been in the toilet the last couple weeks, and many fear this is the start of a recession. But I do agree that this is a great buying opportunity.
 
Looks like Headline News is SERIOUSLY banking on Apple's results today.

Its like it'll be the benchmark of financial economy, if their forecast is lower than expected - then the 'bears' will have their day, month!
 
9.6 Billion

9.6 billion 1st quarter revenue

2.39 million macs sold (above expectations)

22.1 million ipods (below expectaions)

iphone selling better than analysts expected.

apple warns that Q2 may be lower than forecast.
 
MrT8064 said:
Hi, i'm new to the stock market, and REALLY wanna buy some apple shares, can anyone suggest if now is a good time to do that, or is it very very unstable?

i would be looking to invest about 6000$
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I am not allowed to advice, but If I had 100,000 handy I would buy Apple today.......
 
Apple stock plummeting!

Apple down heavily in after hours trade, due to bad Q2 forecast...
 
not the biggest stock market expert....
but is it possible that the disappointment over MWSF is because apple is planning on dragging out their new releases and prod updates through the year (as the keynote speech hinted) to reduce the effect of market volatility on apple share prices? this way recession panic and whatnot will be offset by the imminent spike on sales with any prod updates.

personal pipedream: i'm also secretly hoping that apple may have less than ideal performance (good compared to other companies but still did not meet the hype) and due to that steve's been holding the mbp update announcement till this meeting to offset the potential backlash against apple stock??? agreements? please? (i'm desperate for a mbp update so i'll justify and speculate however i need to maintain hope).

21 mins left till we find out i guess.
 
apple stock down to $141 in after hours.

its a long way from the $190s it was in just recently.

Time to Buy!!!
 
lexlix said:
not the biggest stock market expert....
but is it possible that the disappointment over MWSF is because apple is planning on dragging out their new releases and prod updates through the year (as the keynote speech hinted) to reduce the effect of market volatility on apple share prices? this way recession panic and whatnot will be offset by the imminent spike on sales with any prod updates.
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Apple always spreads out their new releases, as do most similar companies. It makes sense from a marketing and strategy standpoint, and in terms of resources it would be a nightmare to try to update everything at once.

Why would they WANT to bunch up their new releases instead of spreading them out?
 
mackiwi said:
its a long way from the $190s it was in just recently.

Time to Buy!!!
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It's also a long ways from the $50 it was a couple years ago. Apple's cash cow is the iPod. That's where they have made tons of their money. Is there any growth in iPod sales left? Remember, stock prices reflect future earnings and *growth* in those earnings, not the current.

It's pretty clear they are hoping their next cash cow is the iPhone (sales and contracts). If we end up in a recession are people going to drop $399 for a cell phone?

If you listen to todays call, last quarters numbers do not matter nearly as much as what they say they think will happen over the next quarter and year.
 
EagerDragon said:
Yes they will drop today, but in a few days they will be back on the way up again.
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Don't count on it. The focus seems to be on guidance for the coming quarter. Apple is always very conservative in guidance, as everyone should know by now. Still with the mood of the market being what it is, even a whiff of trouble is taken as a major calamity.
 
eastcoastsurfer said:
It's also a long ways from the $50 it was a couple years ago. Apple's cash cow is the iPod. That's where they have made tons of their money. Is there any growth in iPod sales left? Remember, stock prices reflect future earnings and *growth* in those earnings, not the current.

It's pretty clear they are hoping their next cash cow is the iPhone (sales and contracts). If we end up in a recession are people going to drop $399 for a cell phone?

If you listen to todays call, last quarters numbers do not matter nearly as much as what they say they think will happen over the next quarter and year.
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Thats true about the $50 a few years ago.

Big upside left in the iphone though, the iphone pro coming and all. Plus people will replace them as they do their ipods currently.

Biggest upside to come is the 5.5 billion people who currently cant buy an iphone, no matter how much they have to spend (ok so the potential market that could afford it is closer to 1 billion or more, but you get my point.)

Plus I truly believe that the mac / macbook is really going to continue to grow strongly, even with its premium. The tipping point is coming....
 
I REALLY wanna start buying Apple Shares, but i dunno if i should invest in apple as my first ever investment

i want somthing as risk free as possible (i know anything will carry some risk)

would you advise Apple....

... if you had $6000 to spend?
 
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