“Apple Inc.’s near 4% drop wiped out $17 billion from the U.S. stock market on Monday, pushing two of the three benchmark indexes into negative territory,” Kate Gibson reports for MarketWatch.
“Apple shares fell $18.55, or 3.6%, to end at $501.75 after the Wall Street Journal and Japan’s Nikkei reported that the company had cut iPhone production plans because sales had come in below expectations,” Gibson reports. “The Nasdaq Composite lost 8.13 points, or 0.3%, to 3,117.50. Apple has a significant impact on the major stock indexes. It has a 3.8% weight in the S&P 500 and a 10% weight in the Nasdaq Composite, and is the largest stock on both. It’s not a member of the Dow average.”
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MacDailyNews Take: The things that bothers us most about Apple’s decline today is that, obviously, there are so many low information AAPL investors out there.
Don’t invest in that which you do not even remotely understand.
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On word. Well, two.
Stock Manipulation.
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Yeah. It’s not necessarily about understanding the strength in Apple’s stock for everyone. Sometimes people are trying to just save money and wait for when the stock manipulators reap the benefits of what they sewn and make Apple’s stock skyrocket again. I imagine you have to play by their rules if you play in that cesspool of terror!
Swoon?? Apple swoon??? More like analysts swoon from rehashed FUD reports!!!
Amazing… they simply do not understand Apple.
Sure, only americans understand Apple. The rest of the world understands that Apple has got severe problems. Apples products and OS are oldfashioned, customers are leaving them for Android and others. Remember Quark? Microsoft? When will you ever learn … wake up! 🙂
What are you smoking?
Oh like Microsoft and their dozen attempts to enter the mobile market and fail? Who wants Windows 8 or RT? It’s a joke, Half the OS is full of outdated drivers and non used code. What is Apple’s True problem? They Sell Millions so of product every Quarter, The Shelves are bare at the stores. The Apple Stores are packed with people. What problem??
No. You don’t understand trading.
why don’t these astute geniuses think about the possibility this might have something to do with corning glasses announcement about the next gen gorilla glass harder and thinner means a redesign of bezels in the next phone or subsequent editions of this phone apple will put whatever it takes into the glass scratch problem. cheap shares for sale bears think they deserve a 425 price and they will use every halfassed trick to get it
You can always tell an analyst . . .
. . . but you can’t tell him much!
Those dollars didn’t really exist. That’s imaginary money. It’s like when my house was appraising for 1.7 million and when I finally sold it, it was $500,000. It’s all a scam. Heh.
Now if $17 billion dollars worth of gold vanished from the treasury, then I’d be worried. >.>
The treasury doesn’t have $17 billion dollars worth of anything
… so I’d be worried too.
Its called carma. Way too busy here bagging the opposition and feeding each other bullshit all these months and not listening to facts. But let me say it again. Apple are finished as world leaders. Samsung have defeated the money hungry, selfish, lying, selfcentered thieving company you call Apple. Best news for 2013. I for one will be lining up for a samsung s4 with revolutionary unbreakable screen at half the cost and ten times the features of any iphone we will ever see.
Your ignorance is showing, and not only in the gist of your post. Should be “Karma.” Read a book.
You are completely right. I loved my iPhone 4 but apple’s dreaming if they think they can make the screen a little longer and expect me to jump back into a 2 year contract.
They better get innovating soon because Samsung and android are moving ahead very quickly.
Samsung’s hiring people to troll against Apple on the internet.
That doesn’t sound like the behavior of a winner to me. More like the behavior of a desperate loser. Which makes sense, considering that every piece of actual data indicates Samsung’s smartphones/tablets aren’t selling too well(like the numbers that came out during the Apple v. Samsung trial), despite their wild claims of selling tens of millions of units every quarter.
I wonder how much longer they can keep lying?
“The things that bothers us most about Apple’s decline today is that, obviously, there are so many low information AAPL investors out there.” —MDN
What bothers me most is that there are so many poorly-informed financial analysts out there confounding investors with their knee-jerk reactions to movements in Apple stock.
I think MDN is spot on. But low information investors also drove the price to $705. Don’t forget that. Everyone jumped on the bandwagon and drove the stock price too high too fast. I know, Apple investors don’t want to hear that and in particular fanboys can’t stand to hear that but that is obviously the truth. That’s the reason I got out at $700. Too high too fast and I had made too much money too fast. Not that I’m complaining but I knew when to get out. Many did not. It will go up again and may even shoot up in spurts. But please, next time you are way ahead take your profit. It’s the stock market, it happens to all stocks. It will go up. It will come back down. But it is a good long-term investment. That doesn’t mean buy and hold forever. The last three months should be a good enough lesson for anyone paying attention.
Good call MDN. If people were smart they would BUY BUY BUY on news that Apple majorly slashed a component order. ???
And Dell went up.
I wonder what the current Dell*x=Apple multiplication factor is 🙂
It’s an incredible equation Apple is valued by, the share price is in an inverse proportion to it’s revenue, profits and cash reserve. The more money Apple makes, the lower the value of the company becomes.
How is it that Jeff Bezos is able to do the exact opposite with Amazon and yet Tim Cook can’t manage to do what Jeff Bezos is able to do? The more money Apple makes, the weaker it seems to Wall Street. Apparently, fundamentals no longer have any value and shareholders are at the mercy of a big spinning wheel which could stop on any number at any time. I might as well head out the the nearest casino and place my bet. Charts, graphs and balance sheets are only good for making paper airplanes and absolutely of no use to properly choosing an investment. It appears this quarter is going to be a disaster for Apple shareholders.
@Laughinh_Boy48,
Let’s see how the market reacts if Apple reports solid earnings growth for last quarter. This could be a great buying opportunity.
Tim Cook, however, should also split the stock 10:1 and implement some buybacks. A lot of dumba$$es think AAPL is “high” because the numerical value of each share is several hundred bucks; this causes them to panic and sell on every bad rumor. As we have seen the last few months, these types of investors are necessary to keep AAPL at a fair valuation. Besides, if Apple believes in its future, this is a good investment opportunity for Apple.
10 to 1 makes no sense, that would leave Apple with more shares outstanding than Microsoft.
Wall Street is no friend of Apple Corporation. Never has been. never will be. Apple doesn’t play by their rules. It doesn’t need stock funds to function. The anal-cysts are the ones swooning because they manipulated the stock in their favor.
When stocks drop, “somebody” buys it. Follow the money. Who makes $$ on the delta? That is why they call them “breakers” of stock. They play you and you are broken.
The Drop came from the pre-market trades, as everyone read the news of the screen order cut(Which was stupid to believe). Seems like people have no faith in Apple. Every time I go to Target and look at the shelves, what’s missing? Apple Products!? most people have iphones, ipads, only people who can’t afford those have the other stuff. The Financial report is next week and the stock holders are afraid of this one story? pfft. I’m going Long on this stock as the confidence of people wanting their products is high. and that story on Yahoo about kids wanting MS surface tablets was a joke.
Nice $400 stock.
Only $101 to go.
Wake me at $420 so I can program my buy order.
seems apple inc has made one mother f–cker of an enemy. as the last great de facto american capitalist company, i wonder which marxist communist proponent that could be?
in the words of that great tennessee williams character, big daddy, “… you smell that brick? that’s the powerful odor of mendacity?”
Maybe this is all orchestrated by Apple? Thanks to analysts unrealistic expectations the stock too often declines after results, even if AAPL blows away the year before results. Therefore, moderating the perception of the success in advance of January 23 could help the stock jump higher.
apple can’t do it. everybody watches what they are doing. apple is really sensitive on making profit. they are not idiot to do that. that’s why someone like you never understand stock market.
americans are only care apple. the rest of world is not even care at all. you can get great Galaxy 3 with cheaper price right away not like waiting for shit. as a matter of fact, people don’t want to spend more money due to economy difficulty. apple products are doomed whatsoever. as I said before, apple stock is finally fallen down below 500. it will be down more than ever. we will see real value of stock price in the end. everything was all bubble. when I said it before, apple fanboys didn’t even understand what that meant. of course, most of them don’t even know how to play with stock. I have invested stock market for 15 years. it’s not just apple but several other companies.
And I was just thinking to myself how much I was beginning to miss that Samsung lackey Edward.
Edward, you should really learn how to write, or leave it to the adults.
The WSJ article has an insidious angle to it. First, why publish old news? Second, why tout Samsung announcing it will announce an amazing quarter and then say Apple was not immediately available for comment? Third, why no sources? I’ll tell you why: Vice-President Al Gore is not the board. The entire News Corp ecosystem’s job is to demonize Al Gore. He just made a killing on Current TV and now Apple is electing board members. What better way to hurt a guy then get the stock to fall while he is serving on the board? If the WSJ is printing crap like this to hurt Al Gore, this is the worst kind of journalism possible. I think ALL should boycott the WSJ as long as they print such damaging articles to retirement funds around the world! I think the SEC should investigate.