Apple's share Price by Christmas?

[OzExige]

After reading that Apple's market value is now 4 times that of Dell (poor Michael), I'm wondering what dizzying heights Apple's share price will reach by Christmas.
As with my usual trend in Polls, please just take your 'best guess'

 

[iJohnHenry]

Well, currently at $179.98, I would "guess" the $250 range.

 

[skunk]

Why no option for $400?

 

[OzExige]

Why no option for $400?

Be still my beating heart, ***** $400 bucks, let me see, that's almost 4 barrels of crude, wow!

 

[jlmcclellan]

As an AAPL shareholder I can tell you there is a lot of resistance at the $200 range, and I'm willing to bet that AAPL is going to be losing some of it's value in the summer. However they're a strong company and I do think they'll finally surpass $200 closer to Christmas.

 

[Legolamb]

Historically you're right, but they be adopting a more Google-like attitude rather than splitting the stock as it has done in the past.

 

[Eraserhead]

Why no option for $400?

Wouldn't that make them worth as much as Microsoft?

 

[jlmcclellan]

MSFT market cap: 272.32B

AAPL market cap: 159.49B

Yeah... $400/share would put their market cap somewhere around... $320 B or so...

Which would be bigger than MSFT's market cap for sure.

 

[twoodcc]

i'm guessing around 225 or so....

 

[Eraserhead]

i'm guessing around 225 or so....

Which makes them worth $200 billion, that's impressive.

 

[LizKat]

I think the 200+ mark is about right, all other things economic duly considered and assuming the November vote counts for the USA presidency are separated by enough daylight for all to say yeah so that's over, what's for supper...

 

[IJ Reilly]

I vote "meh," because even though I've followed AAPL for years, I have no stinking idea what the price of the stock is going to be at any given time. In fact, the longer you follow it, the less likely you are to pretend to know.

 

[CalBoy]

I went optimistically with $275.

I figured that continuing Mac sales growth coupled with new iPods in September and an iPhone coming this summer will make for a strong Christmas season.

The way I figure it, we'll see AAPL stabalize around a minimum of $220 by mid summer and it'll continue to hover in that range for a while.

With the launch of new iPods in September, the stock will see a $10 gain, and after the good summer results are publicized (back to school sale as always), it will probably gain an additional $10.

Throw in a couple dollars just for your standard appreciation (say 6 bucks) and we're looking at about $245 by the time October ends.

As long as the Christmas season isn't expected to be horrible again, I think AAPL will see an increase as its position in mutual funds becomes more advantageous and gives it a boost.

Mind you I did say I was being optimistic.

 

[northy124]

I went $275 because I believe in Apple