Apple Inc. (AAPL) Message Board

Multiple things that you need to consider over here with this stock.

It is a love-hate relationship with Analysts and Market. No other stock with such a big Market Cap or Share price trades in this volume. Check goog/AMZN/PCLN/Mastercard etc.

1) 60 billion is a very huge number and the psychological effect will be magnified. Whatever AAPL did till today has been grand and this buyback is too. Analysts have always been complaining that AAPL is hoarding money and not buying back their stock. They sold calls and downgraded. Now AAPL is buying back and they all have cold feet? or they want to reverse their position but the train left the station too soon. Did you also notice that many other companies followed the buyback wagon?

2) Removing or Retiring these shares will increase EPS assuming EPS stays flat, which would make the stock very cheap and attractive.Same as sharing a cake between 3 people vs 5.

3) Borrowing at 2 % and retiring shares that pay dividend of 3 % is more money in the pocket for AAPL.

4) The 145 billion cash is still available earning at-least a 3-4 % and will be used for any major acquisition.

5) AAPL will update the SEC and the exchange about the shares retired every quarter, i believe and then the float will be reduced by the exchanges.

6) The common assumed mistake is that AAPL is a hardware company and the lifecycle is only for 3 yrs before a product is matured. Assuming that AAPL is dead and there is no innovation is a stupidity and shorts can burn fast here. AAPL has been doing a lot of research in Nanotechnology and there could be many new devices and breakthrough technologies that could be unveiled. Not all might be a hit, but the ecosystem i.e IOS is so strong that any device connected to it will stand a chance as a future gadget.

Only shorts who are about to get slaughtered. The only wannabe shorts are the massive put buyers, MM's who are short, are already covered and we will soon see the short interest drop big time

All you can say is flawed/ pumper etc. Can you challenge the math with your genius crow brain?

That shows that you are an idiot and never went to school.

Did you ever go to college? Or even school. Do the math yourself

Only pathetic worms like you would compare AAPL to Enron.

Jokers

There are always loopholes, but AAPL is a very conservative company and never will wrong the US

I have only 2 calls though

wow. It means that AAPL is not in the hot seat anymore. It is passed to Samsung now. No one now cares of AAPL. that is good for the stock, with beaten down expectations, there is a lot more room to run

selling put and buying call is how this starts. AAPL will buy back in the open market starting slowly, building up the pace as the stock moves up. Halt when it is above 500 and then if it stays there, it will buy more or make 500 the base. All they will do is make sure that they get as many as they can while keeping the investors still interested

The challenge APPL faced when it hit 700 is to its advantage at 400. GOOG and AMZN will face the same now while AAPL is the only choice left in the undervalued territory in the blue chips. If every fund increases by .5 to 1 % every month, for the next 3 months, they would accumulate AAPL and sell GOOG/AMZN without impacting the share price of both.

i had flagged dumbs like you on the ignore list. how do you pop up again? Is there a pesticide software like an anti-virus?

Only CNBC compares it to AAPL,

I see reports from Korean Analysts who say

"some analysts say the rising production cost of higher-end devices may chip into Samsung’s margins.

The Galaxy S4′s new features “could potentially put pressures on their overall smartphone margins. The big cost drivers are the improved HD resolution AMOLED touchscreen, quad-core applications processor and memory"

And BTW, Samsung is down big time in Korean Market