It's always difficult to write about a company that has so much information and misinformation swirling around about it. Most of it is based on someone's self interest. Some of those opinions are based on swaying product sales, some are based on influencing the stock price, and some are simply based on the individual egos of the writers of the articles. I've written a couple of articles on Apple Inc ("Selling Apple Puts" and "Value Investors are Now Buying Apple") and I look at Apple from an investment perspective. To me Apple is a company in transition. It's transitioning from a trader's stock to a value investor's stock. And dividend growth investors are piling on. |
So if you're a swing trader this stock may just be for you. If you're a dividend growth investor, this stock has transitioned into a company that now pays an increasing dividend and it may just be for you. And if you just believe that Apple ends up owning every market it enters, this may be just the stock for you.
Good Luck and Good Investing.
The Fundamentals 28 September 2014 Price $100.75 1yr Target $110.79 Analysts 42 1yr Cap Gain 9.96% Dividend $1.88 Yield 1.80% 1yr Est Tot Return 11.76% Market Cap $603.28 Bil Beta 0.87 EPS (ttm) $6.19 Payout Ratio 30.37% EPS next yr $7.16 P/E 16.28 PEG 1.33 Forward P/E 14.07 Debt/Equity 0.26 ROA 17.90% ROE 31.20% ROI 25.50% Sales $178.14 Bil Income $38.56 Bil Profit Margin 21.60% | The Products MAC
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