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Re: Apple (AAPL) / Steve Jobs 03 (Sep 12 - Dec 16)

Postby behappyalways » Mon May 16, 2016 9:29 pm

Warren Buffett just disclosed a stunning billion-dollar bet on Apple
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/warren-bu ... 08339.html
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Re: Apple (AAPL) / Steve Jobs 03 (Sep 12 - Dec 16)

Postby winston » Tue May 17, 2016 10:16 am

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AAPL Stock: Can Buffett Spark a Rebound in Apple Inc.? (BRK.A, BRK.B)

This is a rather surprising move from the Oracle of Omaha ... and a sign of confidence in Apple

By John Divine

Source: Investor Place

http://investorplace.com/2016/05/aapl-s ... zp9VZF96M8
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Re: Apple (AAPL) / Steve Jobs 03 (Sep 12 - Dec 16)

Postby winston » Thu May 19, 2016 7:01 am

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This biggest news out of the filings this week was that Warren Buffett initiated a new $1 billion plus stake in Apple. Buffett loves to invest in out–of–favor companies that are depressed in price, with strong brand names, low P/Es and high return on capital.

Apple checks the boxes on all of the above. We think Buffett's stamp of approval will change the sentiment on Apple, which has had a short–term ebb.

Apple shares were up 4% on the news Buffett has entered, the biggest one day move in over two months.

Additionally, billionaire David Einhorn added to his Apple position last quarter. He now has more than 15% of his $5.9 billion hedge fund in Apple.

Source: Forbes
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Re: Apple (AAPL) / Steve Jobs 03 (Sep 12 - Dec 16)

Postby winston » Fri May 20, 2016 5:59 pm

AAPL Stock – Apple Inc. Will Drop Another 15%

Would-be buyers of AAPL shares should wait, as they're about to see much better prices

Source: Johnson Research Group

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Re: Apple (AAPL) / Steve Jobs 03 (Sep 12 - Dec 16)

Postby winston » Sat May 21, 2016 7:44 am

The hidden story behind Apple’s growth concerns…

by Justin Brill

Source: Stansberry Digest

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Re: Apple (AAPL) / Steve Jobs 04 (Mar 01 - Dec 17)

Postby behappyalways » Sat May 21, 2016 8:14 pm

Buffett, Apple and Didi Chuxing

$1 billion stakes on the menu

The meaning of two odd, and connected, investments


USUALLY it is a good sign when Berkshire Hathaway, the investment vehicle of Warren Buffett, takes a stake in a firm. Berkshire’s purchase of $1 billion of Apple shares, disclosed on May 16th, may be an exception, however.

Mr Buffett typically likes firms that are mature. This is a label that Apple is desperate to avoid—especially since it reported a 13% fall in its sales in the quarter that ended in March, compared with the previous year.

Mr Buffett is also famously, even proudly, ignorant about technology. Berkshire’s annual meeting was not webcast until this year and its other bet on the industry, a stake in struggling IBM, has cost it dearly. The new investment by Mr Buffett, who is 85, comes weeks after the veteran corporate raider Carl Icahn, who is 80, sold a $5 billion stake in Apple. The sight of two octogenarians grappling over the firm’s fate does not enhance its aura as a temple of innovation.

The investment does highlight how much Mr Buffett’s firm has changed. A billion dollars is now a drop in the ocean: equivalent to just 0.3% of Berkshire’s market capitalisation. As Berkshire has got larger, it has shifted away from Mr Buffett’s long-standing strategy of buying and holding cheap shares towards buying and holding entire companies, such as BNSF, a rail group, and Kraft Heinz (which Berkshire co-owns with 3G, a buy-out fund). Investments in shares now comprise only a fifth of Berkshire’s assets; Apple will be among its smallest positions.

Perhaps Mr Buffett is just being opportunistic, as he has been before: he invested in Goldman Sachs, a large bank, in the depths of the financial crisis. Or perhaps he will steadily build a much bigger stake in Apple, which is now one of the cheapest big stocks in America, trading on a miserly 11 times earnings, compared with 29 for Alphabet and 72 for Facebook.

If Mr Buffett’s attraction to Apple sends an ambiguous signal about its growth prospects, so too does Apple’s decision to take a $1 billion stake in Didi Chuxing, mainland China’s answer to the car-hailing app Uber, which was announced on May 12th. Tim Cook, Apple’s boss, said the deal would help his firm learn more both about China and about new services, such as entertainment systems for cars. But the transaction can also be interpreted in two other ways.

The first is that it allows Apple to curry favour with China’s government. The company generates $59 billion of sales in the country, or a quarter of its total, so China is almost as important to it as America is. Yet its status with China’s rulers is precarious: last month Apple’s film and book online stores were banned there.

Didi, meanwhile, is losing billions of dollars a year in a price war with Uber. China’s government is no doubt keen to see its home-grown offering survive. So by giving Didi a dollop of cash and its support, Apple will win brownie points in Beijing. It certainly won’t be the last American tech firm to seek them.

The second interpretation of Apple’s tactic is simply that, as the firm stops growing, it will become increasingly tempted by speculative bets on things that are only tangentially related to its core area of expertise. If you add up Apple’s spare cash and the money it is expected to make over the next two years, you get to about $300 billion. Mr Cook has so far promised to return about $100 billion of that in dividends and buy-backs, leaving him a vast pile of money to play with.

Before he embarks upon any spending spree, Apple’s boss should remember that only one man in history has invested billions of dollars of other people’s money successfully over the long run: Warren Buffett. Perhaps Mr Cook should turn to his new shareholder for advice.


Source: The Economist
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Re: Apple (AAPL) / Steve Jobs 04 (Mar 01 - Dec 17)

Postby winston » Sun May 22, 2016 9:58 am

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Has Apple Inc. Stock Finally Gotten Its Groove Back? (AAPL)

Apple stock isn’t the gamechanger it once was

By Hilary Kramer

Source: Game Changers

http://investorplace.com/2016/05/apple- ... 0EQEpF96M8
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Re: Apple (AAPL) / Steve Jobs 04 (Mar 01 - Dec 17)

Postby winston » Sun May 22, 2016 9:58 am

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Has Apple Inc. Stock Finally Gotten Its Groove Back? (AAPL)

Apple stock isn’t the gamechanger it once was

By Hilary Kramer

Source: Game Changers

http://investorplace.com/2016/05/apple- ... 0EQEpF96M8
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Re: Apple (AAPL) / Steve Jobs 04 (Mar 01 - Dec 17)

Postby winston » Sun May 22, 2016 10:36 pm

From Disrupter to Disrupted: Apple Could Be Next

By Nigel Martin and John Rice

Source: Epoch Times

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Re: Apple (AAPL) / Steve Jobs 04 (Mar 01 - Dec 17)

Postby winston » Mon May 23, 2016 4:26 pm

Apple Asks Suppliers To Produce 72-78 Million iPhone7 This Year, A 2-Year High

By Shuli Ren

Taiwan’s Apple (AAPL) supply chain manufacturers soared, bringing the TAIEX Index to close 2.6% higher after Taiwan media reported that Apple is asking its suppliers to prepare for a much higher-than-expected iPhone 7 production for 2016.

Taiwan’s Economic Daily said Apple asks its suppliers to produce 72 to 78 million new iPhones by this year-end, the highest production target in about two years. The street had expected only 65 million iPhone 7′s to be produced this year.

According to the Taiwan newspaper, Hon Hai Precision Technology (2317.Taiwan) will remain the key assembler for iPhone 7 and Pegatron Corp. (4938.Taiwan) will be involved in the assembly process too. Both companies will get more market share this year, as they participate in dual camera, glass casing components production in addition to being assemblers.

Pegatron soared 10% today, Catcher Technology (2474.Taiwan) jumped 9.9%, Hon Hai Precision gained 4.7%, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. (2330.Taiwan/TSM) rose 3.8%, Largan Precision (3008.Taiwan) was up 2.6%. Year-to-date, the iShares MSCI Taiwan ETF (EWT) fell 1%.

Source: Barron's Asia
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