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Putting Apple's (AAPL -1.4%) recent moves in perspective: the company entered 2012 with a P/E of...
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Wednesday, December 26, 2012, 7:04 PM ETPutting Apple's (AAPL -1.4%) recent moves in perspective: the company entered 2012 with a P/E of 11.53 (not counting its cash balance), and is leaving with a P/E of 11.69. But shares are still up 25% YTD, thanks to the earnings growth seen over the interim. Earnings are expected to rise 17% in FY13 (ends in September), and revenue 22%.
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It's the same thing with apple. The hedge funds have brought it down because they could. When you wield enough fire power at anything, eventually it will fall". The hedge funds do this to Apple every quarter but this time they had help with the fiscal cliff issues etc.
Beware and be ready, those same hedge funds that shorted apple and whose operatives put out various stories trying to scare holders out of their shares, are about to buy back into Apple within the 1st 10 days of the New Year, maybe a little longer if the fiscal cliff thing is not resolved but rest assured they will be back in before the next earnings report on Or about January 22nd.
When Apple lost Steve Jobs it was over. It is not the company that you admired it was Steve Jobs. No one can replace this great man not even come close. I would start buying only below 300.
Keep in mind that most people in equities are not traders.
Something about that doesn't seem right. Apple's earnings rose 59% in 2012, the stock price climbed only 25%, and the P/E went up? I don't think so.
I wonder how long you can "not count the cash" with regard to an AAPL stock analysis. At 130 billion, AAPL will hold nearly 25% of its market cap in cash. By year end, this could be 30%, by next year....
At some point, any analysis exempting cash will be pointless. Particularly if AAPL surprises us all and puts its cash to better use (acquisition, dividend, buy-back)...
Let's look at the great innovators of our time: Orville Wright, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Sarnoff, Rockefeller, and Jack Warner. Their companies are doing well without their founders.
He cites Sony as an example. There was failure of innovation long before its founder, Mr. Morita, passed away (recently).
The greatest gift Jobs gave to Apple was his reliance on change. The culture of innovation.
I have moved cash savings over to Apple stock because it pays more than savings.
Best leverage is apple Feb / 2013 strike $770 - turns $700 into over $100,000 :)
100 shares @510 = margin 5100 USD (=leverage 10) + 20 USD fee (see Saxobank) :10 points up = 10x100 = +1000
It would be very interesting, in which dimensions this trading strategy could manipulate the stock price.
A realistic or not realistic? example:
short-CFD-trade with 100’000 shares at 510: Margin for trading is 5’100’000 USD (because leverage is 10 you pay only 10% of the share price), the stock moves from 510 to 508, close of this trade position at 508, profit of this trade 2 x 100’000 = 200’000.-, realized in perhaps 5 or 10 minutes.
The great CFD-players do so with the so called “millisecond”-trading (computer automated) and they prefer volatile stocks.
I think this “market players” manipulate Apples share price on a large scale.
Google saxotrader and you can run a demo cfd-trading.
(I’m from Switzerland, please apologize my English)