Where will Apple stock be 5 years from now?

There are plenty of reasons to believe that Apple stock can perform well over the next five years. Just ask Warren Buffett.

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BJ Cook for The Motley Fool:

Warren Buffett, one of Apple’s largest shareholders and most prominent cheerleaders, believes Apple is the best business he knows in the world. Throughout the iPhone’s upgrade cycles, Apple has consistently improved its design and functionality to meet ever-changing consumer tastes. Perhaps most importantly, the iPhone’s camera gets better with every new version. iPhone users can quickly snap the highest-quality selfies and videos of their kid’s soccer games and post them to social media in a heartbeat.

Buffett has referred to the iPhone as a “sticky” product, meaning customers repeatedly return to Apple’s smartphones. Aside from the iPhone’s design appeal, users like the brand because of its add-on services. iPhone users can purchase additional iCloud storage, download music from the Apple Music app, and conduct touchless payments with Apple Pay…

Another reason Buffett likes Apple is its share repurchases. The company has religiously retired shares over the last 10 years, which increases the percentage of the company existing shareholders own. Similarly, repurchasing shares en masse also increases its earnings per share, all else being equal.

When you combine Apple’s business advantages over other companies with its ability to retire shares at a prodigious clip, you have a stock that has a high probability of outperforming the market over the next five years.

MacDailyNews Note: In 2021, Apple bought back $85.5 billion in Apple stock, while issuing $14.5 billion in dividends. In April of this year, Apple’s board of directors authorized an increase of $90 billion to the existing share repurchase program while declaring a cash dividend of $0.23 per share of the company’s common stock, a year-over-year increase of 5 percent.

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6 Comments

  1. With the current diaper wearing, criminal grifter, lying moron and his side show of circus freaks running things in DC, to heck with Apple stock.

    The question should be “Where will the country be in five years?” If there still is a country.

    1. I think you’re confused. Trump isn’t President anymore. But he certainly is all you say he is – “diaper wearing, criminal grifter, lying moron and his side show of circus support freaks.” He’s never changed.

  2. iCal it. Five years from now, AAPL stock will have doubled from today’s $153 per share. At least. (And I wouldn’t be surprised if it doubled in three.) (I’ve been invested in AAPL since before the turn of the century, so I’ve seen it happen.) You want to buy on the dip? We’re in the middle of the dip right now.

  3. To the AAPL bedwetters out there, grab your blankie and bottle:

    https://thefelderreport.com/2022/09/21/are-investors-staring-down-another-lost-decade-in-the-stock-market/

    Stan Drunkenmiller is no Jim Cramer. Also he’s by far NOT the lone voice saying such things. Like all such statements, time will prove veracity. WIth that said, “your” and my “last two decades” holding AAPL have coincided with VERY beneficial decisions from the Federal Reserve that has inflated financial assets and AAPL has greatly benefitted. Btw, Jesse Felder is no Jim Cramer either.

    Buy-the-dip (now) is almost always a great move…except if it’s going lower.

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