AAPL: I'm keeping every share

[NewtonMP2100]

....but is it prophet-able......??

[Numo]

I’ve been slowly reducing my AAPL shares since they started to fall a precipitously a few months ago. Because I bought them years ago, it’s all profit (although certainly not as much as I had hoped for ). But to be fair, both my wife and I are newly retired, and we need to factor in both best and worse case scenarios in order to ensure that we don’t run out of money. I’m not abandoning stocks - I know I need them for growth. But I’ll probably invest in less volatile index funds next.

[tortoise]

Just a thought, remember when Yahoo was the darling of the market? Apple is just another company subject to the many market forces that can change overnight, especially when a company focuses entirely on one product line (iPhone) to the exclusion of the many other products that its success was built upon?

https://www.theatlas.com/charts/B1RjK9Q_

[NewtonMP2100]

....the problem is this isn't just a single disappointment......Apple is having serious issues with market share in India and China.....now selling less iPhones in U.S....and they have gotten rid of/reduced their other businesses and focused on iPhones......


.....will they go out of business, probably not but could affect the companies future if the don't fix the problems....

[Lux Interior]

tortoise wrote:
https://www.theatlas.com/charts/B1RjK9Q_

Never mind. I thought that was supposed to be a chart of AAPL.

I wouldn't compare YHOO to AAPL anyway. Compare YHOO to GOOG(L).

Compare AAPL to DELL or Samsung.

[hal]

I read an investment book once that described many of the great stock runs of all time and how they ended. Very illuminating. A series of HORRIBLE events can bring down any company.

[vision63]

I believe that their woes are artificial and in a few years will roar back. So as low as they can go could allow me to get into the stock.

[Lux Interior]

vision63 wrote:
I believe that their woes are artificial and in a few years will roar back.

I should have such woes!

They are only a concern to Wall Street types that insist on a constant, uninterrupted growth.

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tortoise wrote: …especially when a company focuses entirely on one product line (iPhone) to the exclusion of the many other products that its success was built upon?

I think that's a bit of an exaggeration: iPhone currently comprises about 55% of Apple's total revenue.

[Carnos Jax]

Any short term players (those approaching retirement) should have diversified out of stocks in general by now. For the long term, Apple will make you money, but the days of mad money are over since Jobs passing...but that's ok, it just means Apple will be a run of the mill profitable company.