Apple shares bull run is over

[LumparChee]

Apple products are under attack from very good competitors on all fronts.

Samsung Galaxy vs iPhone, and now Google Nexus 7 at half the price of iPads ......Google Nexus 7 also has the partnership of ASUS, a premier hardware maker.

Visionaries like Steve Jobs come once in many decades. Now that he is gone, I seriously doubt Apple can come up with new market-shaking innovations anymore.

Well, the good thing now is that Apple share price is still high and most stock market participants (including many hedge funds) stubbornly hold the view that Apple shares will go up perpetually, this is a good time and opportunity to unload.

 

[palden]

With Steve gone, it should be expected. Anyway, he screwed up more lives by putting email into iPhones.

 

[lifeafter41]

With Steve gone, it should be expected. Anyway, he screwed up more lives by putting email into iPhones.

Tech companies, comes and goes

RIM, Nokia, Motorola. Microsoft, Yahoo......just to name a few

 

[sense]

Short-term, perhaps.

Mid-term, I wouldn't want to fight the price action while the regression channel is upwards.

 

[johnny333]

Without Apple's leadership the handphone arena would stagnate. Remember how it was in the old days when Nokia, Microsoft, Samsung, Blackberries, SE,..... were the leaders. Compare those old days to the current situation where you can surf the net easily, listen to music,... with one's handphone.

There is always room for companies which make quality products e.g. BMW, Merc, Porche & Apple,.. There's still room for Apple to grow e.g. markets in China, Brazil,.... As well as the replacement market, for those looking to upgrade. So don't count Apple too soon.

 

[tonychat]

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/06/27/t...e-apple-stops-samsung-galaxy-sales/index.html

(Mashable) -- U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh has approved Apple's request for a preliminary injunction in the U.S. against Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1.
"Although Samsung has a right to compete, it does not have a right to compete unfairly, by flooding the market with infringing products," Koh wrote on Tuesday.
Apple filed a motion for a preliminary injunction in May 2012, claiming Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 infringes on an iPad-related patent. Apple has also filed a similar motion against Samsung's Galaxy S III in June.
The judge's order becomes effective after Apple posts a $2.6 million bond as protection against damages suffered by Samsung if the injunction is later overturned.

It's important to note, however, that this ruling only affects Samsung's older 10-inch tablet, the Galaxy Tab 10.1. It does not affect the updated Tab 10.1 II, which was unveiled in May 2012.
According to an IDC report from March 2012, Apple's iPad had a 54.7% market share in Q4 2011 while Samsung, which sells several tablet models, had a 5.8% share in the same period.
Samsung, which has already appealed (PDF link) the decision, said it doesn't expect this ruling to have a big impact on its business.

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[Yi Dao]

iPhone 5, Dividend Payout Will Keep Investors Buying Apple: Sozzi

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Apple (AAPL) is testing April highs today on news that the soon-to-be-released next generation iPhone is driving down prices of the iPhone 4S at several national retailers. Investors, however, have not been scared off by the high share price and are buying in anyway, so Breakout welcomed Brian Sozzi, chief equities analyst at NBG Productions, and asked if there is anything that will frighten them out of the stock.

"I can see a world where you can just continue to buy the stock," says Sozzi, "because you got that dividend check. You're gonna want to go buy more Apple in front of key product launches. The stock could just continue to go higher."

Breakout's Jeff Macke argues that there was nothing wrong with what Apple was doing pre-dividend and "for the first time in their life they actually need cash to develop new product, and they're giving it to me" instead.

That dividend of $2.65 a share will be paid out this Thursday after the closing bell. Sozzi says that number is only going to grow as the tech giant will continue to increase the shareholder payout every year to entice investors as their growth potentially slows. "If they're not going out there and acquiring companies — which they're not, necessarily — their earnings growth will slow and you're gonna need a hook."

While consumers and investors look for a "hook" in Apple's next big product launch (the new iPhone is expected to be unveiled at a September 12[SUP]th[/SUP] event), the media is beginning to speculate on a potential stock split and a possible inclusion of Apple in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, something recently discussed on Breakout as well.

Sozzi isn't so sure that speculation will become reality. "I don't think they want to be a part of the Dow," he says. "I think they view themselves as a high growth tech play...it doesn't benefit them to go out there and split the stock. Investors are showing a willingness to buy the stock at these prices."

Is Apple's share price scaring you off, or is the dividend enough to keep you coming back for more? Let us know on our Facebook page.

 

[Yi Dao]

Apple to pay dividend of $2.65 per share Aug. 16

By Salvador Rodriguez

July 24, 2012, 2:44 p.m.

Apple has purchased AuthenTec Inc., a fingerprint-authentication products maker, for $356 million in cash. Above, an Apple store in Hong Kong. (Jerome Favre / EPA / July 24, 2012)

Apple Inc.announced it would pay a dividend of $2.65 per share on Aug. 16.

The company made the announcement during its fiscal third-quarter earnings call Tuesday afternoon, saying the dividends will go to Apple stockholders of record on the close of business Aug. 13.

“We’re continuing to invest in the growth of our business and are pleased to be declaring a dividend of $2.65 per share,” Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s chief financial officer, said in a statement. “Looking ahead to the fourth fiscal quarter, we expect revenue of about $34 billion and diluted earnings per share of about $7.65.”

Apple announced the dividends back in March as pressure mounted from investors for the tech company to do something with all its surplus cash.

The news came after Apple announced it would also be releasing its latest Mac OS X operating system, known as Mountain Lion, on Wednesday.

Overall, however, it was a bad day for the Cupertino, Calif., company, which failed to meet analysts' earnings expectations, causing the company's shares to plunge.

ALSO:
iPhone 4S sales slowing as Apple readies iPhone 5 launch
Redesigned iPod Touch headed to market this fall, report says
Apple reports disappointing third-quarter earnings, shares plunge

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Copyright © 2012, Los Angeles Times

 

[johnny333]

In the last quarter Apple posted positive results. Though it failed to satisfy the ever inreasing expectations from so called analysts. The share price dropped to the $590's but I notice that the share prices are now in the $630's region.

There's a game that some analysts are playing. They will talk up the stocks predicting very high targets & when Apple can't reach these targets the price of the stock falls. These analysts will make $ from pumping these stocks & then from shorting when the price falls.

So don't get taken in by some analyst predictions.

 

[Cestbon]

Apple is been attack from all corner. Andriod will rule.
Hate I-product doesnt want to link other than I-product. Even simple bluetooth also block .

 

[Kinana]

Apple overated. Its time to buy Samsung.

 

[johnny333]

Apple overated. Its time to buy Samsung.

Apple products have always cost a premium. For those who can't afford it or prefer cheaper options there is always the cheaper copycats like Samsung.
This is not the market Apple is interested in.

As an investor I'm more interested in the more profitable company. The fact is that Apple is a very profitable company & their products are perceived to be better than the competition.

When a company like Samsung introduces so many different models compared to only one from Apple, it creates the problem of fragmentation. Samsung might sell more phones but with so many different models the customer will end up with problems such as incompatibility & orphaned products.

 

[Cestbon]

Samsung also not cheap selling price par with Apple.
Just that Samsung more user friendly. Only touch screen quality lower a bit not so sensitive compare to Apple.

 

[congo9]

Samsung also not cheap selling price par with Apple.
Just that Samsung more user friendly. Only touch screen quality lower a bit not so sensitive compare to Apple.

I am puzzled ? Samsung touch screen not sensitive ? My galaxy S2 and S3 is the better then all the apple put together.

 

[Cestbon]

I am puzzled ? Samsung touch screen not sensitive ? My galaxy S2 and S3 is the better then all the apple put together.

Samsung phone ok. The tablet not that sensitive .

 

[Alamaking]

Long live Apple!!!!

 

[johnny333]

I am puzzled ? Samsung touch screen not sensitive ? My galaxy S2 and S3 is the better then all the apple put together.

Apple only releases one model each year & they are expected to release their new model in Sept. That's probably why the share prices are back up up. You'll see them leap frog ahead of Samsung until Samsung gets a chances to copy the new Apple products.

From the court documents in the case of Apple vs Samsung many were surprised at how low Samsung sales were in the US.

 

[Narong Wongwan]

Apple will rule for while more....

 

[laksaboy]

Before Apple's fall, Microsoft will fall first.

Watch the launch of Windows 8. It will be an epic fail, a major cock up of epic proportions.

Steve Ballmer is an idiot.

Read this:
http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2012/08/microsoft-lost-mojo-steve-ballmer

Microsoft’s Lost Decade
Once upon a time, Microsoft dominated the tech industry; indeed, it was the wealthiest corporation in the world. But since 2000, as Apple, Google, and Facebook whizzed by, it has fallen flat in every arena it entered: e-books, music, search, social networking, etc., etc. Talking to former and current Microsoft executives, Kurt Eichenwald finds the fingers pointing at C.E.O. Steve Ballmer, Bill Gates’s successor, as the man who led them astray.

 

[johnny333]

Steve Balmer the oracle of Redmond

People like him just don't get it & really shouldn't be leading technology companies

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