“Back in March when Apple’s stock was heading for new all-time highs, I did write about a dangerous sign for the stock, namely a wave of robust forecasts that called for the stock to reach $800, $900, or even $1000—some of these calls were made here at Forbes.com,” Panos Mourdoukoutas writes for Forbes.
“In July, after Apple missed on earnings expectations, I did write about another dangerous sign: A wave of justifications of the miss that re-assured investors that Apple’s fundamentals are intact, and that the stock will head north soon–after the iPhone 5 release,” Mourdoukoutas writes. “Now, with the iPhone 5 release around the corner and the stock trading near all-time highs, the buzz is about Apples contribution to the US GDP. Such buzz isn’t healthy for the stock. It focuses on the noise, not the message.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Mourdoukoutas is Greek for “ghoulishly misconstrue.”
It also means ‘fuck up’
On another note, the current all-time highs are only the result of a correction for 12 months of linear growth (all of 2011), rather than the usual exponential growth of 55%/year. That’s how stock needs to behave. The April peak was just overshoot after the (correcting) rally. Since June we’re back to the exponential curve as it should have been all along. In 2011 AAPL was being held down artificially by speculation, FUD, SJ’s illness, etc. But in the mean time, operationally, the company has continued to perform without any hickups.
Don’t trust the Greek on financial advice. They only know how to spend other people’s money.
Yeah, after all, Apple is just another Nokia, right?
Please refrain from using our brand in vain.
Thank You
Nokia
I don’t know what would be funnier…
If you really represent Nokia, or if you’re just pretending to.
😀
Apple BEAT their own forecast I can’t believe that Wall Street keeps hanging on to what they call a miss – I guess they can make up any number and then say the company missed – They all suck..
By March 2013, apple’s shares will drop to $300 or maybe $250.
Only if the rest of the stock market (on average) falls by 60 to 70% during that same time frame…
Just wait and see what happens to apple’s stock. I’m just tell you what I know.
No, anonymous coward ‘Gupta’. You’re talking out your ass and it stinks. Poor FUD trolling effort. Let me guess. You’re another Samsung hire? 😛
@ derek
You are a coward apple fan, who doesn’t want to accept the truth.
Insistent hilarity. You walked the wire, whoever you are pretending to be today. You fell off. I’m laughing. You know MY name. 😆
*cough*bullshit*cough*
=:~)
Is your full name Gupta Zabitsky?
Only if in the meantime there is some kind of stock split….without that, not a chance in hell that their value will drop that far….
Just wait and see what happens. I’m telling you what I know about this company.
Be explicit or be a troll.
those puts are out there waiting for you gupta. load up.
So then you’re predicting what, a 4-1 split? Anything else is downright silly, so that’s the only thing that makes sense. Apple simply makes too much money to fall to that price. Forget everything else, there’s no way there not going to keep raking in the profits for the foreseeable future. It’s the simplest stock in the world.
I’m confused about why this is a bad thing. Seems like constant long term growth along with regular short dips in value (buying opportunities) more make it a perfect stock. I’ll freely admit I don’t know anything about stocks, except what I’ve heard in that “Buy low, sell high” Schoolhouse Rock song
These stories always show up right after the hedge funds short AAPL, which always occurs following a sharp SP run-up. About the time the hedges cover and go long these stories are replaced by positive ones.
The headline for at LEAST one iPhone 5 story tomorrow will read “Too Little Too Late” That, I can guarantee.
Unless there is some hardware feature we don’t know about, it will be a big Wall St. letdown.
They waited too long to go big and now everyone has a year headstart on Apple to correct the situation. No doubt Apple will have a bigger option next year to complement the 4 incher.
But I think I was a genius move to small on the iPad. The ipad mini will not only cannibalize the larger iPad, it will also cannibalize the iPhone. The ipad mini is going to be a success beyond Apples imagination.
I hope you end up eating your own words on “Too Little Too Late”
Many doomsayers out their but very few ever come true especially when concerning Apple.
The ipad mini is going to be a success beyond Apples imagination.
You just lost your credibility. The iPad was ALREADY the record setting success beyond Apple’s imagination.
No one has yet found the ~7″ WhateverPad market to be lucrative. Apple would only experience the same, just as Steve Jobs clearly, succinctly and definitively pointed out. Watch and learn…
Steve jobs was against 7″ tablets, then how come apple is going to introduce iPad mini against Steve’s will??? Maybe after Samsung’s successful 7″ tablets, now apple wants to copy them.
Now tell me who is copying? Samsung or apple???
Steve Jobs was against many things including: (but not limited to)
1. Making iPods compatable with Windows.
2. Making iTunes run on Windows.
3. 3rd party apps on the iPhone.
You should read Walter Isaacson’s book.
I don’t need to read any book. I know the truth.
Now you accept the truth. 😉
I think SJ said that 7″ tablets offer an inferior customer experience. He didn’t say he was afraid to create one to step on Samsung’s nuts.
You know nothing Apple. You FUD everything Apple. As I expected from a previous thread: You’re paid by Samsung. You’re an anonymous coward pretending to be someone other than a Samsung hire. You’re a liar. You’re a waste. You’re merely a troll for hire.
Oh, and please do feed me, your anti-troll.
When some people on Wall Street start calling for Apple to reach $700 and beyond get ready for a collapse. The hedge funds are just trying to get suckers into Apple in order to do a massive sell-off that has nothing to do with how much revenue Apple is making. It’s just going to be another P/E compression in the making, likely knocking it back under 15. It really annoys me how Amazon’s P/E keeps growing by bounds but Apple’s keeps sinking as time goes on. Apple will add another $8 or so billion extra in reserve cash and the share price will barely move this quarter.
WREAKING BS
In July, after Apple missed on earnings expectations…
NO IT DIDN’T! Apple beat their own earnings expectations. Check it out:
As MDN has published: “On April 24, 2012, Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer provided Q312 guidance of “revenue of about $34 billion” and “diluted earnings per share of about $8.68.” ”
The results were a revenue of $35 billion at $9.32 per diluted share! So get bent Panos Mourdoukoutas who writes for Forbes.
What ‘missed’ were the over-inflated/ignorant Wallstreet ANALyst expectations. Therefore, FIRE THE ANALYSTS! Blaming Apple is idiotic, deceptive and unprofessional. Offensive DUH Factor.
I sense the stink of stock manipulation in the air, again, right on schedule, the day before Apple’s next product announcements. So obvious.
the buzz is about Apples contribution to the US GDP. Such buzz isn’t healthy for the stock. It focuses on the noise, not the message.
NO. Such ‘buzz’ is mere party jabber before dinner is served.
The actual “noise” is ANALyst FUD frippery such as this BS article by Panos Mourdoukoutas who writes for Forbes.
Apparently Forbes is part of the current Apple stock manipulation system. Forbe’s Apple articles over the past two months have been almost universal ignorant FUD. Either that, or Forbes is experiencing an extended August Effect. Either way, their reputation has been splattered with their own excrement.
Tip: Look elsewhere for sane stock analysis.
I also disagree with this person’s aburd conclusions about AAPL, but I also thinks it is small mindeness bordering on bigotry to include someone’s presumed ethnicity in disagreeing with them.
I don’t see why the last quarter can’t be justified. Every now and then Apple has these timing issues.
apple stock has been fallen for two days consecutively. it is supposed to go higher because new iphone 5 expectation. but I think that people seem to get pissed off. plus, they probably saw leak iphone 5 as well. it made them pissed off either. I bet that apple stock will even fall after tomorrow (apple event). apple stock is no more gold.
According to my info, by march 2013 apple’s stock will drop below $300 or maybe below $250.
Ah, you remind me of Zune Thang, except that he quoted his sources about such predictions. You’d make a lot of sense if it was about a stock split but you are choosing to remain cryptic, not to mention a few other choice words in your drivel.
You have to realize that there have been so many of your kind here previously, crying wolf for so long that you are only pissing not the wind.
I’m sure you believe you are right, Zune Thang and a pile of others would certainly agree with you, and offer even more to your vast wealth of “information” so you should go check them out at the troll cometary.