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Post by dmiller on Feb 1, 2017 12:15:30 GMT -8
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crispin
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Post by crispin on Feb 1, 2017 12:15:43 GMT -8
The chart: I remember some of those % changes, at least, the RED ones. 29 Sep 2000, lost a little more than half of its value. If I remember right, this was from a big earnings miss. (may or may not have been related to the Cube fiasco). We were in the $50's, and the huge drop to $25 was gut-wrenching. And then we kept going lower. (see 6 Dec 2000, down almost another 50% from that to $14). The first iPod was introduced in October 2001, just a little more than a year after the fall 2009 bloodbath, but it didn't start picking up traction or helping the stock for quite a long time. AAPL stayed in that graveyard range for a couple of years and it felt like dead money. If you could go back in time, that would be a good day to revisit and put down some money - it wouldn't take much. Those shares are up 120x (aka 6000%) since then. A $10,000 investment in early Dec 2000 would be worth $1.2 million today. October of 2000 is exactly when I started buying my first AAPL shares. I only bought a few hundred at first, but then I kept adding through the rest of the year. I can't really explain why I had the confidence in Apple, it was just some gut intuition I think. You're right though, it was dead money for a few years until about 2006 as I recall. From that point on it's been a wild ride.
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coma
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Post by coma on Feb 1, 2017 12:22:20 GMT -8
. . . it appears that AAPL will clear 100 million in volume by the bell.
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Mav
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Post by Mav on Feb 1, 2017 12:36:03 GMT -8
Celebrate, AFB2 friends!
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Post by dreamRaj on Feb 1, 2017 12:37:18 GMT -8
. . . it appears that AAPL will clear 100 million in volume by the bell. and then some.
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coma
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Post by coma on Feb 1, 2017 12:43:41 GMT -8
. . . it appears that AAPL will clear 100 million in volume by the bell. and then some. More better . . .
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Post by dreamRaj on Feb 1, 2017 12:49:27 GMT -8
Closing above 130 would solidify a positive momentum and give confidence to new and returning investors that the stock will go higher. Much higher.
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Post by dreamRaj on Feb 1, 2017 12:50:29 GMT -8
Doesn't it seem like FB is getting ahead of itself before its ER?
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Post by rickag on Feb 1, 2017 12:52:01 GMT -8
Just out of curiosity I checked the selling on strength - AAPL it listed. I like the slow rise up throughout the day and volume.
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Post by dreamRaj on Feb 1, 2017 12:59:06 GMT -8
I'm wishing for FB to go higher today and AMZN to fly tomorrow coz I don't want any tech decline to eff up our flight. Haa!
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Ted
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Post by Ted on Feb 1, 2017 13:06:40 GMT -8
Hell of a day! I'm buying the first round! 107.7 M shares traded! Horace Dediu tweeted, "I have not yet done the numbers but I think Apple had the best quarter in the history of humanity." Congrats to us all.
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Post by PikesPique on Feb 1, 2017 15:05:25 GMT -8
Still "doomed!"
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Ted
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Post by Ted on Feb 1, 2017 17:22:34 GMT -8
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Post by artman1033 on Feb 1, 2017 18:08:57 GMT -8
AND NOW: 5,332,313,000 shares of common stock were issued and outstanding as of October 14, 2016. 55,230,000 net share reduction in quarter 5,246,540,000 shares of common stock, par value $0.00001 per share, issued and outstanding as of January 20, 2017 10Q investor.apple.com/secfiling.cfm?filingID=1628280-17-717&CIK=32019385,773,000 reduction LUCA: We returned almost $15 billion to investors during a very busy December quarter for our capital return activities. We paid $3.1 billion in dividends and equivalents. We spent $5 billion on repurchases of 44.3 million Apple shares through open market transactions. And we launched a new $6 billion ASR, resulting in an initial delivery and retirement of 44.8 million shares. We also completed our eighth accelerated share repurchase program, retiring an additional 4.4 million shares. This led to a net diluted share count reduction of 65.3 million shares during the quarter. We've now completed $201 billion of our current $250 billion capital return program, including $144 billion in share repurchases. And we plan to provide investors with our annual update on the capital return program in the spring.
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JDSoCal
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Post by JDSoCal on Feb 1, 2017 18:35:10 GMT -8
And we plan to provide investors with our annual update on the capital return program in the spring. This being the fourth consecutive quarter at $.57/share dividend, look for $.62/share next earnings release. Assuming that something major with tax/repatriation doesn't happen in the next month or so. Imagine the buybacks and divy's Apple could do with a permanent foreign tax fix.
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Post by bick on Feb 1, 2017 21:12:20 GMT -8
On a pre-split basis, today's AAPL move was +51.8 points. I'm quite certain that is indeed the largest absolute move ever by about 2 points.
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Post by bick on Feb 1, 2017 21:46:54 GMT -8
If I divide iPhone sales of 78.3M in the quarter by 14 weeks I get 5.6M iPhones per week. Applied to a normal 13-week quarter that's only 72.7M units. On the other hand, some unit sales from the initial iPhone 7 rush were pulled forward into the September quarter because of an extra week back then. So basically, iPhone unit sales YoY were actually flat and not a return to growth as the market seems to believe. The last 14-week Apple quarter was Q1FY12 (5 years ago). I found this from PED exactly 4 years ago (2013): "Apple analysts: Stupid or lazy?". fortune.com/2013/02/02/apple-analysts-stupid-or-lazy/?iid=sr-link1
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Post by bick on Feb 1, 2017 22:06:33 GMT -8
My experience with a significant change in AAPL sentiment like we had today is it usually takes a week after the initiate spike for investor meetings and re-valuation reports to kick in for a re-test of today's highs and a further breakout. So if AAPL retraces back to 125, I would use that to go long short-term call options for the bounce back and move to new highs.
I suspect many funds have policies against chasing stocks and are more deliberate with their stock buy and sell decisions. So you need meetings and a pullback to settle things down before the real rush of buy orders kicks in. Early next week I'd look to buy...
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