Scholarship table
An analyst yesterday predicted Apple to go up another 40% by this time next year. Also, Disney to go up 25%.
AT&T down 14% YTD. DTV sinking this dog?
What does an energy company (DTV) have to do with AT&T? Did they form an alliance or JV?
Get the F$$k outta here.
Go Cubs!
Retool a few areas, slot Machado at short, avoid the injury bug and we are right there.
A. Why is this not in the baseball thread?2. Why would you want to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to a person who intentionally and maliciously tries to injure fellow competitors?
AAPL just soared past 225 this week. Most impressive part is that P/E is still only 20. Much different than other high flyers it is often compared to. This one just keeps giving goodness to its shareholders.
You're right, SCE. One could argue that AAPL is still fairly reasonably valued.I'm not buying more now, but I'm in no hurry to sell what I have.
Apple has lost 33% of its value since the statement above. One-third of its value has gone "poof!"So by not selling, or even considering it, and assuming you dollar cost averaged in. You have probably made no money in the last 18 to 24 months. Or, whatever you thought about the stock in September will could very well take a couple of years to realize that value again.So .. how about now? Do you feel the same way now that you lost the last 18 to 24 months of value?
I have lost nothing.Next question.
Actually you lost a third of your investment.So the next question is how did a guy that supposedly is so good at investments get so bad at math?
I bought AAPL at 95, 105 and 115. I have lost nothing. You said only morons would buy AAPL at 90. You lost a ton of gains.
you are STILL basing your investments off cost and not the alternative.
You are a master at shifting goalposts. I mean under this new theory, everyone could be claimed to be a loser unless they invest in the ONE thing that outperforms EVERYTHING else. It certainly is a great way to be considered right all of the time.
And not the best, but the average. You can buy a broad index ETF like the S&P 500 (See SPY). You can now own the index of all 500 stocks. This is your true alternative, not your cost. Every investment has to measured against the alternative of just buying the market. Knowing your cost is actually dangerous, see 82 and Chicos. Their principle rationalization is their cost. It should be how their stocks suck against the alternative of just owning the overall market. This is why you should not buy stocks. Too hard. Just own the market.
Are you suggesting that investing in the S&P when you started this thread would have been better than investing in Apple?In which case, that's provably idiotic.If you're suggesting anything else, it's far from clear.But I must say, I'm thoroughly impressed at the lengths you're willing to go to avoid admitting what's obvious to everyone else ... your take on AAPL was terrible, horrible, no good and very bad.
Wait, what are gains? If you can't lose gains, you can't have gains. Heisy's post was type-lunatic, but it's true that you lost a bunch of your gains aina?
Yep, sitting at a div yield of 4%+, that's a primary reason I'm still in. Only hopped in TGT several months back.. I believe at $52.38.. it's now at $58.66 (+12%). Sometimes crappy stocks get beaten down so much I can't resist.
Closed the first trading day of the year near $68. Up 29% since my purchased, ignoring the handsome dividend. I am the anti-Heisy
STZ stock over $232. I made a lot of Scoopers rich.
Knowing your cost is actually dangerous, see 82 and Chicos. Their principle rationalization is their cost. It should be how their stocks suck against the alternative of just owning the overall market. This is why you should not buy stocks. Too hard. Just own the market.