What If You Bought Apple Stock Instead of The Apple Product?

How far do you think Apple stocks will go? I love Apple, but I'm more worried about Steve's health. God bless him!

Unfortunately I was not that smart in 1997! What's the next big prediction John? Will Palm come back from the dead now that HP has bought them?

I think Apple stock is still a steal, measured by Price earning ratio.
Apple PE- 21
Google PE -23
By this metric apple is cheaper than Google. Another stock many miss is good old Microsoft it has a PE of 16

Ahhh....if I just had the foresight to buy Apple stock back in the day......(and I'd also need the cajones to hold it through the ups and downs, to where it's at today).

I recently saw a cartoon about investing the ongoing cost of an iphone, and ran the numbers for myself. If I went back to a normal cell plan, over the next 40 years until I retire, assuming an 8% long-term return, I'd have about $178,000.

Made me think, but only for a second. There's a lot to be said for quality of life, all the time the iphone saves me, and ideally the money I make from it because of how it allows me to run a business on the go.

Still, it's good to be aware of these things.

The trick with the stock market is to know when to sell, and to never lament the fact if you didn't hold on longer, because your profit has been banked, and stocks are notoriously fickle.

In the case of Apple it is still worth buying in, as the stock price is stil very much on the up here.

Buy a product is okay.. but buying a stock? well not possible at this early..

buy the stock???? :D

Man you a re becoming an investor. Good for you :)

It is amazing how far Apple has come and how high their stock has risen. Good post, wish I got into the Apple stock long ago to see some of that great return!

Don't buy a stock and then tell people to buy it. That's akin to pumping and dumping, and some might even say frontrunning (look up those terms if you need to), which are both illegal.

Don't be an idiot John. You don't want the SEC breathing down your neck.

A friend and I were talking about stock last month before the release of the iPad...he did by stock, about 30K of it...he's was a happy camper when those performance reports came out....I guess I should have jumped on it also...oh well...

Late last week I re-invested in some shares (I invest in the UK) and today the stock is up 3% already.

So I think it is a great idea what John is proposing to invest in companies that you have an affinity for.

buy the stock???? :D

It amazes me how things happen in life. I was just talking to my brother about this exact topic. I just bought an apple MacBook for my daughter and was thinking if only I would have bought some stock in apple when I first purchased the first gen. iMac, man it would have turned a nice profit. Thanks for the informative post.

Anthony Arias

How much you earned through those computers and macbook.

You should also consider that.

I am sure with the help of macbook you have earned quite lot than that.

:)

What a neat strategy. Although, unexpected things can happen and I suppose that's the risk with stocks. I've ways wanted to invest but remain reluctant at the same time. It doesn't seem apple is going anywhere forthe next 2 years.

I guess it just comes back to investing into companies that you personally use their products and believe in. Very much a Buffet style of investing (although Buffet would never invest into Apple).

I too believe that you can't put this statement into reality as it doesn't seems to have a wonderful track record.

True, ONLY if you bought it when it was the lowest. I bought bunch of Apple shares are $29 each in the 90s and they they dropped miserably for like 10 YEARS after that. Of course, if I kept it for more than 10 years, I would have made money but I lost about $10,000 so, I gave that up.

Same thing now, I wouldn't buy it, it's too high now.

This is a bullshit statement because it forgoes the opportunity cost of what the Powerbook could have brought in, especially given 13 years to reach a meager $330k