Apple's Stock Price Tops $410 to Reach All-Time High

[BuddyTronic]

Wow

Maybe Apple should buy up SONY. Those new headphones Sony makes are killer and maybe it would help Apple to make the Apple TV with the TV in it. Then there is Playstation. Surprised that Sony is only 20 Billion. Chump change for Apple I'd say.

What one should have did was invest in Apple
back in March 6, 2009 when it was about $84 a share. Dump your life savings into it...and then sell today....

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These companies are gonna get bought out...

• Sony (SNE) – $20.29B
• Yahoo! (YHOO) – $18.50B
• Adobe (ADBE) – $12.49B
• Research In Motion (RIMM) – $12.38B
• Motorola Mobility (MMI) – $11.25B
• Sirius XM (SIRI) – $6.72B
• Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) – $4.81B
• RealNetworks (RNWK) – $0.29B

 

[tripjammer]

Hard to say.

My predictions have been correct for the last several years on AAPL.

Every Christmas I make a few little wagers with my "glass is half empty" friends on AAPL.

I'm thinking that $600 is not impossible in the next 18 months, and this time my prediction is along side the "experts" out there who already have guidance of $575, so what I am saying this time is not a big stretch because EVERYONE is saying that now. My previous predictions were flying in the face of all the idiotic viewpoints, but everything comes around.

I guess the reason I did so well is that while I listened to everyone, I didn't let them do the thinking for me, my own predictions were way different than the experts over the last 20 years, and it payed off bigtime.

So do you really think any other makers are going to be able to compete with Apple? I don't. Virus loaded Androids? Phooey - geeks only will want that. Low price with big features from China makers or Korea makers? Not gonna fly in USA - the App Store and all the ecosystem effects are way too powerful to duplicate properly. They will all have weaknesses, and only the "PC" people out there are looking at these clones of the iPad, and you can see them at the store with glazed eyes because they have no clue what they are even going to do with the device they are looking at. At least with Apple, these same techno noobs are going to get treated royally and have a chance to discover why these machines are good for them.

Anyway - there is a lot to say about it for sure - but yeah, Apple is going up and so is the entire stock market. My DOW 20K prediction is still ON for 2014ish. It almost has to happen. But a huge musical chairs crash event could mess everything up too! So be careful and get some push alarms going on the stock price so you can get out quick if needed.


Check my predictions:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/898506/


My motivation for telling you all this is strictly due to my growing Ego! So take what I say with a grain of salt. I'm just so stoked about making so much money, I'm giddy! Yay! But I don't mean to be an arse, if anyone thinks I am being one by showing off so much.

U da man...I believe in you....APPL at $600+ by 2014...very easy....hell it might be at $500 by end of year!

 

[iVoid]

Oh how I wish I bought Apple stock when it was $5 a share... BEFORE the split.

 

[*LTD*]

Perspective.

September 2010:

Apple (AAPL) – $266.64B

September 2011:

Apple (AAPL) – $382.34B

 

[ECUpirate44]

Petro-China held that title in 2007.

.

First American trillion dollar company.

 

[435713]

Damn! Roll around naked in all that money.

 

[*LTD*]

Hard to say.

My predictions have been correct for the last several years on AAPL.

Every Christmas I make a few little wagers with my "glass is half empty" friends on AAPL.

I'm thinking that $600 is not impossible in the next 18 months, and this time my prediction is along side the "experts" out there who already have guidance of $575, so what I am saying this time is not a big stretch because EVERYONE is saying that now. My previous predictions were flying in the face of all the idiotic viewpoints, but everything comes around.

I guess the reason I did so well is that while I listened to everyone, I didn't let them do the thinking for me, my own predictions were way different than the experts over the last 20 years, and it payed off bigtime.

So do you really think any other makers are going to be able to compete with Apple? I don't. Virus loaded Androids? Phooey - geeks only will want that. Low price with big features from China makers or Korea makers? Not gonna fly in USA - the App Store and all the ecosystem effects are way too powerful to duplicate properly. They will all have weaknesses, and only the "PC" people out there are looking at these clones of the iPad, and you can see them at the store with glazed eyes because they have no clue what they are even going to do with the device they are looking at. At least with Apple, these same techno noobs are going to get treated royally and have a chance to discover why these machines are good for them.

Anyway - there is a lot to say about it for sure - but yeah, Apple is going up and so is the entire stock market. My DOW 20K prediction is still ON for 2014ish. It almost has to happen. But a huge musical chairs crash event could mess everything up too! So be careful and get some push alarms going on the stock price so you can get out quick if needed.


Check my predictions:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/898506/


My motivation for telling you all this is strictly due to my growing Ego! So take what I say with a grain of salt. I'm just so stoked about making so much money, I'm giddy! Yay! But I don't mean to be an arse, if anyone thinks I am being one by showing off so much.

Totally doable. iPad sale alone are expected to explode in 2012. If this year's performance was impressive so far, it's nothing compared to what's around the corner. Additionally, iPhone 5 sales projections are quite bullish. Probably justified.

 

[Trauma1]

What one should have did was invest in Apple back in March 6, 2009 when it was about $84 a share.

You mean amidst the financial market meltdown? This was the time when people were losing their homes, jobs, and watching their portfolios shrink, not to mention losing faith in the stock markets. And Jobs' health issues were (again) of concern and he had the liver transplant shortly after this.

Comments like this are very easy to say two years after the fact with perfect knowledge of financial statements and information. Hindsight is 20/20.

 

[TheSlush]

Keep goin', baby!!

 

[minik]

You mean amidst the financial market meltdown? This was the time when people were losing their homes, jobs, and watching their portfolios shrink, not to mention losing faith in the stock markets. And Jobs' health issues were (again) of concern and he had the liver transplant shortly after this.

Comments like this are very easy to say two years after the fact with perfect knowledge of financial statements and information. Hindsight is 20/20.

I did put some money down on the day before Macworld SF 2009, it's the first stock that I own too.

 

[Trauma1]

I did put some money down on the day before Macworld SF 2009, it's the first stock that I own too.

You did, I did, and many, many other people did, too.

My point was that it would very difficult, given what I said above, to convince the average person, who would have already suffered at least some losses or felt the effects of it, to invest, seeing that the markets took a nose dive to ten year lows.

 

[Rodimus Prime]

Perspective.

September 2010:

Apple (AAPL) – $266.64B

September 2011:

Apple (AAPL) – $382.34B

over 33% increase is not to shabby.

Apple is going to fall under the to big to fail companies so they will get some pretty heavy handed regulation put on them. That or encourage to break up into multiple smaller companies.

 

[louis Fashion]

Do you have any understanding of investment strategies?

I think it was a joke.....

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Why is it silly?

Just open an account. Put in what you intend to invest / trade. It's not a big deal, and you get to see prices in real time (instead of twenty minutes behind).

"Just open an account." What you should have advised, is to open an on-line account like Scottrade etc....the lower your cost to trade, the better. Do not pay high commissions.

 

[*LTD*]

over 33% increase is not to shabby.

Apple is going to fall under the to big to fail companies so they will get some pretty heavy handed regulation put on them. That or encourage to break up into multiple smaller companies.

What are you talking about?

What "regulation"? What break up?

 

[Trauma1]

Apple is going to fall under the to big to fail companies so they will get some pretty heavy handed regulation put on them. That or encourage to break up into multiple smaller companies.

What regulations? They're not in the financial services industry. So that leaves FCC and FTC, and maybe a few other, lesser significant ones?

And why would they be broken up into smaller companies? The US government cannot break up a corporation because of natural growth.

 

[lkrupp]

I agree, keeps the loop of new iToys going.

You know this iToy talking point is getting old. Apple detractors have tried for years to label Apple products as toys not fit to do "real work" on. Guess what? It hasn't worked. Neither has the "sheeple" argument, nor the "overpriced" talking point. I think the haters need to reevaluate their denigration tactics.

 

[*LTD*]

You know this iToy talking point is getting old. Apple detractors have tried for years to label Apple products as toys not fit to do "real work" on. Guess what? It hasn't worked. Neither has the "sheeple" argument, nor the "overpriced" talking point. I think the haters need to reevaluate their denigration tactics.

Funny how they're mysteriously gone on quarterly report day.

 

[rdowns]

over 33% increase is not to shabby.

Apple is going to fall under the to big to fail companies so they will get some pretty heavy handed regulation put on them. That or encourage to break up into multiple smaller companies.

Wishful thinking.

 

[Rodimus Prime]

Wishful thinking.

Not wishful thinking more of a fact. Apple is going to fall under the too big to fail category. This means they with have some heavy handed regulations on them to protect them from failing. To avoid this this a company needs to make itself smaller normally done by breaking up into smaller ones. Those regulations will encourage breaking up to get out from under those regulations.

 

[swagi]

Sheeesh

Any of you guys followed the news recently? Just some food for thought given to you from someone reading a little more economic news.

As the greenback and the euro are going the way of the Dodo investors from e.g. Japan or Swwitzerland really are not too happy with the performance.

And Apple doesn't have that much money in the bank as you may believe as they cannot get jt into the US without deducting taxes.

So yeah, bubble it is young Pardawan!

 

[Trauma1]

Not wishful thinking more of a fact. Apple is going to fall under the too big to fail category. This means they with have some heavy handed regulations on them to protect them from failing. To avoid this this a company needs to make itself smaller normally done by breaking up into smaller ones. Those regulations will encourage breaking up to get out from under those regulations.

Your lack of knowledge in the subject matter is clearly evident.

The whole "too big to fail" was for the big financial firms who participated in moral hazard. The wealth and livelihood of many people were in their holdings and those firms chose to use those funds to engage in risky behavior. When they failed, the wealth and livelihood of those individuals fell with it. If they had all failed, it would have been disastrous for the economy as the personal wealth of individuals and collective wealth of corporations would have been erased. This speaks nothing of a retail computer company. No one uses such a company to hold and manage their wealth, and they don't participate in moral hazard, for the most part. There are more people and corporations who use these banks and firms than those who use a certain company's tech products. If such a company were to fail, employees would lose their jobs and investors would lose money, but it won't make a lasting impression on the economy.

The "too big to fail" regulations that you are referring to are specifically for protection of individual wealth, specifically in the financial services industry. A retail tech company has much fewer regulations imposed upon them, none of which would call for it be broken up into smaller companies.

 

[*LTD*]

Not wishful thinking more of a fact. Apple is going to fall under the too big to fail category.

That doesn't make sense. "Too big to fail"? Fail how? In what way? How are they "too big"? Exactly how big is "too big"?

This means they with have some heavy handed regulations on them to protect them from failing.

I don't understand this. Sustained consumer demand evidently keeps them from failing, as it would any other company. I'm not sure what "regulations" would prevent Apple from screwing up if they chose to do so. They aren't run by the government. Apple is not a bank. Do you mean government bailouts?

To avoid this

To avoid what? The very regulations that apparently (to you, at least) exist to keep Apple from failing?

. . . this a company needs to make itself smaller normally done by breaking up into smaller ones.

Why does Apple need to do this? To avoid failing? You haven't even established how or why they would "fail" in the first place.

Those regulations will encourage breaking up to get out from under those regulations.

 

[rdowns]

Not wishful thinking more of a fact. Apple is going to fall under the too big to fail category. This means they with have some heavy handed regulations on them to protect them from failing. To avoid this this a company needs to make itself smaller normally done by breaking up into smaller ones. Those regulations will encourage breaking up to get out from under those regulations.

You've really outdone yourself here. Where do you get this stuff?

 

[AppleScruff1]

The stock will do better now that Steve has stepped down. He was holding the company back with his dictatorship. It will have a more human feeling with Tim at the helm.

 

[Glideslope]

How high do you guys think Apple's stock will get?

$638 by this time in 2012. Then I'll shoot numbers for 2013.