“Apple is a schizophrenic stock, TheStreet founder Jim Cramer said Wednesday, and it is best expressed by what Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi said Wednesday,” Tom Terrarosa writes for TheStreet.
“Bernstein on Wednesday gave hope to investors when it placed a $1 trillion target on Apple’s market capitalization based on the idea that it monetizes its services instead of relying on hardware sales, according to Cramer, manager of the Action Alerts PLUS portfolio, which owns AAPL,” Terrarosa writes. “‘But be aware, no one else will come out with a trillion-dollar price target tomorrow,’ Cramer cautioned.”
“Not to mention, the market is still anxiously awaiting word on a potential interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve,” Terrarosa writes. “‘If you have more governors come on and say, ‘Look we have to tighten because we have a hotter economy,’ then Apple won’t matter either,’ he said. ‘You’ll be fighting the Fed. Right now, you’re fighting the Fed if you buy stocks.'”
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MacDailyNews Take: The way the market undervalues Apple, we’ll believe that $1 trillion market cap when we see it.
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I doubt that ever happen, not even million years .
A million years is a long time. At the US average annual inflation rate of 3.22%, in just a thousand years, $100 will be worth $4,782,966,000,000,000, nearly five quadrillion dollars.
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IMHO the Fed thing is way over blown.
The economy looks to be in recession. It’s very very doubtful there will be any interest rate hike. If it does happen it will be window dressing.
There are 2 economies in this country: 1 for the poor and 1 for the rich. The first is in recession. The other seems to be ticking over just fine.
If it was fairly valued on par with the S&P it would already be 1 trillion dollar stock