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Some Quick Facts About Apple Massive Market Footprint
Just a couple of quick observations on how the market is now pretty much "all Apple." Using David Kostin's previously published data, the first chart below shows that Apple alone accounts for a substantial portion of the best margin performing group in the S&P: Information Technology. Indeed, as the second chart shows while most sectors have been cutting their margin forecasts for H2, with a particular emphasis on materials, healthcare and industrials, one sector has been doing surprisingly well: InfoTech. And of this, Apple is the dominant margin leader. As Kostin says, "AAPL was a key contributor to the market’s continued margin expansion." Take away this cult company and the entire market's forecasted margin improvement collapses. Furthermore, as was pointed out previously, and confirming just how massive Apple's role is in the S&P earnings picture, is the fact that Apple (AAPL) which posted revenues $3.9 billion (16%) above expectations and single-handedly contributed a stunning 40% ($0.23) of the $0.57 per share of aggregate EPS surprise for the S&P 500. Upward revisions to AAPL’s 2H sales and earnings expectations contributed much of the Technology sector’s positive revisions." Lastly, "AAPL currently represents 3.2% of S&P 500 EPS for 2Q 2011." Woe to the market if anyone manages to disturb the precious market ecosystem which now relies exclusively on Apple to be the dominant power pushing and pulling everyone else higher. And as more and more market making power is delegated to the cult, what happens when one day, inevitably, Apple disappoints?
Infotech Margins with and without Apple:
Who did what to margin forecasts this earnings season:
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What happens? The market will keep going higher. Broken system, bitches!
Silver bitchez!
Soon we will hear "nobody ever lost money investing in Apple"
"Trees don't grow forever, but Apple does!"
Weekend at Bernies!
heresy
Terry Gou buys it on a big dip. "Meet the new boss..."
Where's Reggie. Calling Reggie. You've been saying Apple margins would collapse for over a year now. How does it feel to be bitch slapped again.
Reggie also has had WF going bankrupt every three months for about three years. Self-promoting blowtards like Reggie will never admit they are wrong. They will ignore 99 erroneous predictions and point to the 1 correct one. In Reggie's case, it will usually be with a headline like "Right again! I told you the sun would rise in the East!!!"
BRING BACK THE J UNK BUTTON PLEASE
Once the low/middle class in China/Brazil/India affords iphones/ipods/ipads/icrap, who else are they gonna sell to? How are they gonna keep growing?
Invent new products maybe? I guess that's why the stock get's trashed every time Steve Jobs looks thinner, he drives that creative process.
Dup
Some Women in China are selling their virginity for Apple products.......
... while some other virgins who make the venerated objects jump to their deaths.
China: it's bubblicious.
First of all, they dont need Steve Jobs to grow. They have basically found the secret formula -> cloud computing + mobile space + cloud entertainment. They are ahead of the game in the last two categories and catching up fast on the first. Steve's genious was in realising long before the others that the PC was dead...and the future was in cheap but sophisticated hand-helds (smart cell phones, ipads etc) talking to the cloud (data + computing) space.
Once poor Chinese kids run out of organs to sell, Apple is going down.
don't worry - when Facebook goes public it will be worth more than four world economies
If they do, I am closing mine down. If they sell and trade on what I put onto it, they need to pay me first bitches.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hATC_2I1wZE
No, no, you're aksing the wrong question. The question you need to ask - is "What happens to AAPL when (not if, but when) Steve Jobs dies?"
AAPL's fortunes are inextricably linked with Steve Jobs. He dies, AAPL just devolves from being a cult back to being just another big corporation.
Don't worry, leave Apple alone long enough and it will host a worm or rot.
Well, with Netflix screwing itself and Amazon losing affiliates due to tax laws, yeah, we are pretty much down to Apple, aren't we?
(That and Google...)
In 1977 (was 12), my father taught me about computers. He lovingly forced me to learn how to build a Heathkit H-89. I completely repected my father after having to use a crapple computer later in high school.
Oh ya baby.. we had two. one with a green screen and the other amber.
I build my own machines at will when there is sufficient money.
I don't miss for one moment the blood, sweat and tears into the goddamn computers since the Tandy took data off a Cassette tape long ago.
My school mate had a Tandy..we called it trash 80. LOL
Just tried a Samsung Galaxy tablet, the newest one, and I can't believe what a piece of crap the Android operating system is.... things just don't work, un-responsive, the ui is all over the place...
makes me miss MSFT!
In addition, Apple, Microsoft and Oracle comprise 15% of the market cap of the entire Nasdaq.
Along with the other top 7, the top 10 comprise 30% of the total market cap.
More information is here:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0Ap1-74tGswAXdEFRaDl...
Data is current as of 6/24/11
It's disgusting. It's all like 'keep playing with yourself'. Those Apple-figures would have certainly meant something if the junk they sell would have been manufactured in the US of Debt. That's where the responsibility of corporates lie, not just shoveling boxes (pads, pods, puts) from Asia to the consuming western world.
Another TBTF?
My thought exactly. So when the ipone 5 appears and tanks, they will be due several tens of billions from the taxpayers.
An Apple is too beaucoup.
Testing new log in.
AAPL is a great stock too.
I have to say Apple is a great company and knows how to innovate, been holding their common for quite a while and it hasn't disappoint yet. The amount of cash they have is outstanding which makes me think of a share buyback or one time dividend. I mean, they could probably finance the government's debt, right? lol
It's a whole new paradigm. Who needs NASA when we have Apple to go to the moon?
/sarc
I envision a day when the Fed government provides 0% interest loans for 80 years and tax credits to purchase Apple products. or provides a 30% discount incentive to purchase your iPhone with physical silver.
/sarc
Who said the bl**ding CLOUD!!!!!!!
What kind of slavery do you want; put it all on the cloud, who owns your data and your secrets?
Not you.