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- MikeDugg, on 10/28/2007, -10/+69HAHA! Bought AAPL at $7 (split-adjusted) a share and now at $184!!!!!!!!!!!
- kendals, on 10/28/2007, -7/+64Congratulations to Apple- I think an overused quote is applicable:
"What would I do? I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders," Michael Dell said before a crowd of several thousand IT executives. - k2fish, on 10/28/2007, -0/+40Wow, Forrest Gump must be a zillionaire by now...
- rmw132, on 10/28/2007, -3/+42I still think its amazing that owning a Mac went from strange and unconventional to "hip" and "the thing to do"
- IllBeBack, on 10/24/2007, -1/+35"The Company sold 10,200,000 iPods during the quarter"
Damn, that's a huge number. Props to Apple for owning the MP3 market. - Calcularius, on 10/24/2007, -9/+3810,200,000 iPods > 9 Zunes
- inactive, on 10/24/2007, -0/+27I was thinking a while ago that if I bought Apple stock instead of buying my Powerbook G4 I could have bought 10 MacBook Pros.
- corporalclegg24, on 10/23/2007, -2/+27I think i can still have the right to brag buying in at 77!
- inactive, on 10/24/2007, -0/+22112,087 iPod per day
4,670 iPod per hour
77 iPod per minute
1.3 iPod per second.
That's a whole lotta iPod. - BossKey, on 10/23/2007, -0/+18Apparently, everyone except the skeptics!
- inactive, on 10/24/2007, -2/+19I'm waiting for Steve Jobs to say that about Dell.
- iFungus, on 10/23/2007, -1/+17Please shut up. We all know GreenPeace are alarmists and environmental opportunists, going after the company that gets the most media attention. They sold out long ago, and give a bad name to environmentalists.
- BlueStarr, on 10/24/2007, -5/+20Wow! I'm buying Apple stock.
- TheFlood16, on 10/24/2007, -1/+15Just don't buy any shares in after hours trading. You will most likely get burned without even knowing it.
My History teacher bought a ton of Apple stock back in 2001 or 2002 super cheap and he is now rolling in cash. - MacEnvy, on 10/23/2007, -0/+14Pretty much everything hip and cool started out as strange and unconventional.
- kelly, on 10/23/2007, -1/+14He doesn't need to. Everybody's already thinking it
- badqat, on 10/23/2007, -4/+16uh, you missed the "buy" phase, but please, feel free to buy as much as you want!
- MJ420, on 10/23/2007, -4/+16Bitch
;) - flipmeat, on 10/23/2007, -0/+11If 1.something million iPhones in a year is 1% of the market, factor in if it gradually crept up to 3 or 4 percent over, say, the next 18-24 months. If that happened, you could buy now and earn a modest profit in a few years. The Mac sales growth was a real stunner, that's a lot of Macs. Happy iPod and iPhone users, plus Vista being a snoozefest, = looking good for Cupertino.
- EvilAnimator, on 11/12/2007, -7/+18Suck it, haters. The greatness of Apple cannot be denied.
- bremstrong, on 10/24/2007, -1/+12Microsoft stock had 10 yr. run where it went up 30 or 40 pct. a year. I wonder if Apple will grow like this for the next five or ten years.
Going from $10/share to $150/share in the last four years is a good start. - ronmexico, on 10/23/2007, -0/+11If you had read the third paragraph...
Apple's Mac business accounted for 50 percent of the company's total quarterly revenue. - CraigJ, on 10/23/2007, -1/+11Maybe. Most analysts have a target over $200 now, so there's still room.
- kineticarl, on 10/24/2007, -0/+10It's a secret.
- inactive, on 10/23/2007, -2/+12It always was "hip". The differences as of late are (for me and a few others) that it switched to a UNIX core, and for other people, that it became capable of running Windows apps competently. Back when I was using Windows, I always envied the people that didn't need any apps that didn't run on their Mac.
- scslmd, on 10/23/2007, -1/+11Disclaimer: I own AAPL stock.
Well, some simple research shows the following:
* Apple one-year net profit margin: 13.9%
Difference from the company's 5-year average net profit margin: 7.0 pct. pts.
Difference from the average for the Personal Computer Systems group: 2.8 pct. pts.
Net profit margins (%)
Company 13.9%
Company 5-Yr Avg. 6.9%
Industry 11.1%
They're doing well so far. Let's hope the ride keeps going! - Calcularius, on 10/23/2007, -0/+10...from the 'no *****' department.
- formerssgtusmc, on 10/24/2007, -1/+10rolling....rolling.....rolling...keep those iPods rolling Steve Jobbbbbbsss
- streak, on 10/23/2007, -0/+9More specifically, Dell has been flat the last two quarters at $15B revenue/qtr. Apple has been growing consistently ~33-47% year-over-year and predicts $9.2B revenue for the December quarter (nearly two-thirds that of Dell and nearly 50% higher than the September quarter). I don't believe Dell sells an MP3 player any more and sells no cell phones, so Apple beats Dell in sales and revenue for those departments without question.
- jmpeagle, on 10/23/2007, -1/+9oil is a commodity and therefore a low margin, high volume product. They obviously aren't price gouging if the demand for oil is still rising.
- jmpeagle, on 10/23/2007, -0/+8why would an economics professor be reccommending any stocks? That's not even in their field. That's business school, not the modelling of macro and micro economic variables on the economy.
- mikev, on 10/23/2007, -1/+8Yes, over a million of them. :)
- Tenoq, on 10/23/2007, -0/+7Myth and has been debunked. Apple is one of the cleaner manufacturers. Who else is using LED-lit LCDs to reduce power requirements and toxic waste? :p
- jmpeagle, on 10/23/2007, -1/+6as of now, the 24 analysts covering AAPL from the various major ratings agencies have an average target price of around $182 (although it will most likely be increased overtime as they analyze the information released today.)
http://www.marketwatch.com/tools/stockresearch/upD ...
http://www.marketwatch.com/tools/quotes/snapshot.a ...
but 186 to 200 is only a 7% return. Better put your money elsewhere unless you want to plant your money down for like 5 years in Apple. - jkoke, on 10/23/2007, -1/+6I think it's kind of scary that you think oil is a necessity. No, you don't have to drive a car to work. If you can't afford gas, then live closer to where you work, or get a different job. Is is nothing like food and water.
- inactive, on 10/23/2007, -1/+6Except even with this rate of growth, Steve Jobs has a lot to do to catch up with Bill Gates.
- Tenoq, on 10/23/2007, -0/+5Sounds like what most people want... and all the Nokias of yesteryear.
- ThatsUnpossible, on 10/23/2007, -0/+5What is more interesting is what Microsoft made INVESTORS, not what it made for itself. Compare to AAPL for the year:
http://finance.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&c ...
Would I have loved to own MSFT since their IPO? You bet. But for the past 10 years? No thanks, sideways trading for a decade is no fun...
http://finance.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&c ...
Compare to AAPL for 10 years:
http://finance.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&c ... - jmpeagle, on 10/23/2007, -1/+5it's gone up to 186+ so far in after hours trading
http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/quickchart/quickc ... - jmpeagle, on 10/23/2007, -0/+4that information was valuable for about 1 second at which point the markets immediately adjusted for it. Also, I think you have missed most of the gains.
- kineticarl, on 10/23/2007, -2/+6Woot sold 8894 Zunes today.
- DinosWillDie13, on 10/23/2007, -1/+5haha awesome. I hope you got a lot of it.
- wildmannz, on 10/23/2007, -0/+4Nope- Over 60% of the profits this quarter were from Mac computers...
- MonkeyFarts, on 10/23/2007, -2/+6There is also a direct correlation between people that post retarded crap on the Internet and low IQ levels. Amazing, huh?
- inactive, on 10/23/2007, -0/+4Thing is when you are small, relatively small increases in sales will result in big growth.
- vmardian, on 10/23/2007, -0/+4Keep in mind that it's already a $150B company. If the shares were to increase by 30% a year for five years, Apple would be worth $550B, making it the largest USA company by today's standards (Exxon is worth $500B followed by GE at $410B).
- jayfehr, on 10/23/2007, -0/+4You are probably correct that MS made more money then Apple this Quarter. But the point in this article is the 34% growth of the company. I don't think MS has grown that much in the last 3 months.
Also what people are getting excited about is that this is only the third quarter, so the stock is climbing because fourth quarter revenue is always higher due to the holiday season. It's as much as a sure thing as you're going to get this year, - Tenoq, on 10/23/2007, -1/+4iPods are a luxury item. They're not like food, water, utilities or oil. You don't HAVE to own an iPod... but you do HAVE to fill up your car so you can drive to work.
- MacParrot, on 10/23/2007, -0/+3I wonder if you'll still be such an ass when you get to high school?
- monkeyrun, on 10/24/2007, -0/+3it would be best if you wait for the invention of time machine first.
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