“There are several excellent articles here on Seeking Alpha that have stated how good the financial fundamentals of Apple Inc. (AAPL) are, and I agree that they are solid, but there are also plenty of stocks out there with good fundamentals,” Shamus J. writes for Seeking Alpha.
“What I haven’t seen on Apple is a comprehensive set of reasons that makes this a ‘once in a lifetime’ investment opportunity. Now I don’t use the term lightly, and I firmly believe that there is no other equity on the planet that will deliver as much return as Apple in a 3 year time frame,” Shamus J. writes. “I challenge anyone to give me another stock which has all of the following properties.”
15 reasons why Apple stock is a once in a lifetime opportunity:
• Excellent market timing
• Iconic product design
• Product Cost
• Price Point
• Yearly product cycles
• Around 20% of their market cap is cash
• A young market, and one that is shifting users from the current PC market
• Intellectual Property that cannot be copied
• Owns one of the largest databases of credit cards in the world
• Third party support
• Strong physical and internet retail presence
• Long product lifetimes
• They do not sell advertising
• They pay a dividend
• Very sticky ecosystem/em>
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Arline M.” for the heads up.]
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Only 15?
At least it’s not the usual, annoying “Top Ten”.
A good list which bears repeating
Clarifications, the first is hardly worth mentioning but will be picky :
1. iAd does bring in revenue
2. Some intellectual property is being copied as we all know by a certain pair of companies
The term “market timing” requires some clarification. I can think of 3 separate areas
a. Apple’s own products, year by year
b. Apple’s own products, such as iPad, nearly a decade in prototyping, creating or re-creating a new market
c. the stock market
3.
I want my Newton!
Unfortunately, Wall Street hates Apple, therefore the very low P/E ratio.
Fundamentals always win in the end!
Love Fest aside, forget the glitz and focus on ROI. There are a lot of great stock that most of us can afford to buy in volume and stand to earn North of 20 to 30% on. Apple and Google stock is not an easy buy for most folks hence volume purchasing is out of the question. I am a Stockbroker and made most of my dollars playing penny stocks as ROI is what makes an investment earn stripes and not glitz.
Apple is finally going to pay out dividend after a 17 year hiatus hence Blue Chip stock buyers will look at it more closely. In the end, the Mutual Fund Managers rule the Exchanges and the stock prices as they can single handily make or break a stock.
So if I invest $6,000 in a $6 stock and get 1,000 shares, and it goes up 20%, I make $1,200. But if I invest $6,000 in Apple I only get 10 shares, and if it goes up 20%, I make…wait, $1,200. That can’t be right, because you just told me I would do better buying cheap stocks, due to the “volume” I can buy. Color me confused.