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Apple on Wednesday posted a profit of $565 million, shipping 1,254,000 Macs and 14,043,000 iPods during the quarter. Revenue for the quarter was $5.75 billion. Compared to the same quarter last year Apple posted revenue of $3.49 billion and a net profit of $295 million. more
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Posted 18 January 2006 - 01:55 PM
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Now which the stock drop even further on this good news.
Now which the stock drop even further on this good news.
When things like this happen, it is essentially the market criticizing itself, not the company that they are selling. They are saying that they went overboard with their own predictions on how well the company was doing. Stock price is only an indirect indicator of a company's value.
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Posted 18 January 2006 - 02:13 PM
Great, good time to buy more then.
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Posted 18 January 2006 - 02:45 PM
"Buy on rumors, sell on news."
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Posted 18 January 2006 - 03:10 PM
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Stock price is only an indirect indicator of a company's value.
Stock price is only an indirect indicator of a company's value.
Stock price is an indicator of value + some fraction of expected future value. The problem with Apple's quarter wasn't its performance, which pretty much matched revised analysts expectations, but the announcement that they might have a weak quarter coming up with late-in-the-quarter MacBook shipments, slowing PowerPC purchasing, and a seasonal downturn in iPod sales.
In addition, whenever a company has a really gangbuster quarter, some of the people who like to "buy low, sell high" decide the "high" is reached and sell.
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Posted 18 January 2006 - 03:44 PM
Apples drop in price today is due primarily to the entire tech sector tanking on Intel and Yahoos bad earnings reports. After the massive chaos of the tech bubble burst 5 years ago, Wall Street is more punishing to missed expectations. Failure to perform by a couple of heavy hitters like Intel will drive the prices of even great companies sharing the same sector space.
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Posted 18 January 2006 - 04:34 PM
I don't know about the macbook. My brother's work bought one for him. Maybe others did the same.
And the macbook still has nothing on the 12 and 17 PB.
I would use the macbook as my backup laptop with the 17" behemouth as primary (mostly screen size when editing video and the FW800 because nothing else like it exists now.)
And the macbook still has nothing on the 12 and 17 PB.
I would use the macbook as my backup laptop with the 17" behemouth as primary (mostly screen size when editing video and the FW800 because nothing else like it exists now.)
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Posted 18 January 2006 - 04:42 PM
I'll be into the MacBook as soon as somebody comes out with an Express/34 card that has a FireWire 800 port, an external SATA port, and hopefully an extra FireWire 400 port.
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Posted 18 January 2006 - 05:55 PM
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I'll be into the MacBook as soon as somebody comes out with an Express/34 card that has a FireWire 800 port, an external SATA port, and hopefully an extra FireWire 400 port.
I'll be into the MacBook as soon as somebody comes out with an Express/34 card that has a FireWire 800 port, an external SATA port, and hopefully an extra FireWire 400 port.
eSATA would be great. The rest would be fluff to me. But there's no way I could get my company to spring for one without being able to dual-boot Windows and have two buttons (or mighty mouse button) on it.
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