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jer446 said:Im am now an official share holder of aapl, yippee.. it lost 2 bucks and 30 cents today so i thought id buy, hopefully it does well...
I want to buy a new powerbook. Think you can get me a good discount?
Weird!! A few days i ago i bought AAPL too. Yeah ive lost about $3 a share... but it will hopefully go back up. I was about to buy it when it was at 17-20. (im so stupid...)
It was a joke. Holding stock technically makes you a part owner of the company, even if it is a non-voting share.
jer446 said:Im am now an official share holder of aapl, yippee.. it lost 2 bucks and 30 cents today so i thought id buy, hopefully it does well...
Bah, I bought at around 44.60$... I hope it goes back up soon.
If you check the charts, it was going up and up, and after the split, down, down... What gives? Does everybody thinks it lost 50% of its value on monday or what?
In any case, the target was said to be about 100$ before the split, and we all know those "analysts" always under-estimate Apple, my personnal target was about 112$, which means about 56$ now.
Come on, iBook/iMac/PowerMac updates!
They should give stockholders discounts. Maybe equivalent to the EDU discount. That would be a great perk to buy shares...not to mention the way their stocks have been since the iPod.
To answer the WHY behind the recent drop in AAPL:
(Dow Jones)--Shares of Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL) fell nearly 6%
Thursday after online music competitor Napster Inc. (NAPS) raised its revenue
target for the current quarter, citing robust growth in its music subscription
service.
That news, said analysts, led to concerns that Apple is facing greater
competition in a market that it has largely called its own.
"Investors may be concerned this reflects increase competitive pressure
and/or share gains from Apple's dominant iTunes music service," said First
Albany Corp. analyst Joel Wagonfeld in a research report.
There's more, but you get the point. That was forwarded to me by my stockbroker, by the way.
(Dow Jones)--Shares of Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL) fell nearly 6%
Thursday after online music competitor Napster Inc. (NAPS) raised its revenue
target for the current quarter, citing robust growth in its music subscription
service.
That news, said analysts, led to concerns that Apple is facing greater
competition in a market that it has largely called its own.
"Investors may be concerned this reflects increase competitive pressure
and/or share gains from Apple's dominant iTunes music service," said First
Albany Corp. analyst Joel Wagonfeld in a research report.
There's more, but you get the point. That was forwarded to me by my stockbroker, by the way.
kwajaln said:
Until the numbers are made public, I would not sweat it. They raised their target from 15 million to 16 million in revenue. The question is how much of that is profit. We know that about 15% was wasted on a "math" lesson. And a large portion of that will come from the selling of Roxio's software division.
I personally don't feel that Napster will hurt Apple. Napster is a one act show. And not a good one at that. Apple is "Top Dog" and other companies will enter the music service and try to take some of that market share. As they do, they will also eat into Napster's share, which isn't much to start with.
acedickson said:
I'm fairly certain that would be illegal....(offering product discounts for anyone who purchases stock)
firewizard said:how would that be illegal?
I can't remember where I read something similar, but due to some SEC regulations, businesses who are publicly traded cannot offer incentives in return for purchasing stock. Why do you think there are so many companies who publicly trade but do not provide incentives/discounts/etc. to purchase stock?
firewizard said:how would that be illegal?
even if it wasn't illegal, it would be so unethical.
snkTab said:
I don't agree because when you're a shareholder you essentially own a part of the company. It may be against SEC R&R I don't know. I think it'd be nice if it was that way. If I had money to invest right now AAPL would be one of them, discounts or not.
slipper said:ill give you a discount if you invest in my company
sounds like something similar to rebating or bribing
Anyone with ownership in the company is entitled to discounted rates on company products.
Doesn't sound sleazy like the other. Anything can be made to sound good or bad.
I wasn't incinuating it be advertised. I'm sure big fish are offered better deals than that from other corporations. Why not throw a bone to the little guys, hehe.