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Apple: 36% Of S&P500 Q1 Earnings
As AAPL crosses $600bn market cap, we thought it worth a reminder (as we noted last week) of the outsize impact Apple-as-Market is having on top-down views of US corporate performance.
(h/t John Lohman)
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Bullish!!!
Nice you beat me to it.
That's great news for Apple, but bad news for everyone else!!!
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What an indictment of the ridiculous state of our economy. I wonder if there was a parallel situation in 1929, where one company accounted for a significant chunk of a major indexes' profits.
In 'Idiocracy' 1 company also accounted for the entire economy and all jobs.
When Facebook IPO's will there be enough market attention left to sustain Apple's core?
We will all use our MacBooks to FaceBook on Farmville and stocks will go to infinity, and beyond!
I'd like to see an instagram of that!
I wonder how much AAPL the President's Working Group on Financial Markets owns, knowing that the Bank of Israel and Bank of Japan also own AAPL shares....
President's Working Group on Financial Markets - Executive Order:
http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/executive-order/12631.html
There definitely was, although it was more like 2: JP Morgan (who had big stakes in copper wires, coal, energy) and Standard Oil (Rockefeller, US first billionaire).
Lets see: AAPL makes up for 36% of US economy....Spanish bond yields rising like Jerry Sandusky at a Day Care center......France's economy numbers coming out today show *its* tanking.......Vegas credit downgraded by Fitch........Best Buy CEO resigns, while Kodak CEos trying to get their severance despite them filing for bankruptcy.....Labor participation rate lowest since the fucking 40s.......
....I dunno bout you guys, but that TOTALLY says *buy some stocks* to me!
Cant wait to short the shit out of this thing...
Yeah, but only the central bankers know when the Fed will stop pumping it.
Timing, timing, timing.
Plus with almost all of Apple's competitors shitting the bed, one must be extremely cautious. At some point they will saturate the market for their iPhone and iPad products, at least for the short-term. That should be good for a 200 point drop even if the Fed has the spigots open.
Almost, almost...not quite yet....
iBubble.
Guy at the shoe store was just telling me about his DCA purchase of AAPL yesterday. I nodded....trying to act polite.
That is a great story and good to hear.
If you aren't on the Media-Approved Apple bandwagon, you must be a racist.
The best way to identify racists is to note who brings up race all the time when it has no relevant connection to the discussion.
In the spirit of Easter, it looks like all of America's eggs are indeed in one basket.
iS&P500
Don't bump the Jenga pile....
Holy iCrap, Batman!
iCrap indeed.
All you need is love, love - love is all you need.
That's sustainable. Is that a seasonably adjusted number?
Yes but transitory weather effects have not been accounted for...
National Hurricane Service is calling for fewer named storms this year. In an El nino year the east coast is less likely to sustain a hit from a severe storm. This should be great for summer seasonally adjusted employment numbers along the eastern seaboard.
Not much left of the ex_APPL pie!
the bubble is in the margins..
IS it possible that AAPL is joining IBM in our government's urgency to build out it's Utah spy center and other big brother expenditures? and is this the reason why uncle Buffet recommended IBM ? Perhaps we will see all time highs in equities as a result of endless off-budget gov. spending on super computer spy equipment causing IBM/AAPL to pull everything else up along with it.
Remember where IBM got its start, records keeping of Nazi concentration camp prisoners.
Nigga please.
IBM'd been tallying censi and other shit for decades before teh 1930s. Nazi golds were just icing on the cake.
IBM was created in 1924, a renamed version of the earlier Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. Clearly SheepDog-One is mistaken. As an aside, Thomas Watson was the 'founder' of IBM, having been with CTR Corp. for 10 years when the name change occurred. Before that, Watson had worked for National Cash Register, where he had been involved in some less-than-legal actions. He left NCR - apparently they saw no future in tabulating equipment - and went to CTR. He claimed that he was an unwitting accomplice in those actions, of course, and that he was simply following orders. In modern terms, he claimed "It's Patterson's fault" (Patterson being the head of NCR at the time.)
Disclaimer: I worked for NCR from 1973 through 1991, being let go one Thursday afternoon as part of their plan to improve their local demographics prior to being sucked into AT&T and forming what some of us referred to as Cash Registers And Phones. History records how well that worked out.
like a forest fire, there's only so much territority it can consume. Reflexivity.
Are they invited to the G-7 summit?
I keep clicking on the up arrow, but I only got it to change once.
"Tim Cook led his fellow heads-of-state on a walking tour of Apple's Cupertino campus today, as the 2013 G-7 summit opened for business. Top item on the agenda: getting sign-off on Apple's takeover of the entire global cellular communications infrastructure, in exchange for BIS access to Apple's gigantic cash hoard, which will be used as the foundation for the new global currency scheme scheduled for launch in early 2014. In the wake of the Euro and Yen collapse in late 2012, Apple's rescue of the global currency system recalls J.P. Morgan's heroic backstopping of New York banks during the 1907 crisis, writ large."
I think Mr Jobs left it to the government in his will
iPower, to infinity and beyond!
Actually you mean to say APPL EPS GROWTH is 36% of SPX EARNINGS GROWTH. If Apple was actually 36% of SPX earnings it would be worth a lot more then $600bbn.
http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2012/04/10/best-buy-ceo-resigns-shares-j...
How many flat screen tvs can people buy?
I own a 65" 50" 42" and 32"
Also have a 30" cpu monitor.
NONE WERE BOUGHT AT BEST BUY. I go to Best Buy, look around for hours, decide what I want and buy it 20% CHEAPER online.
lol @ 30" monitor. But seriously it must look good and great to use if you have the space for it. It'd show those stupid ipad users that size DOES matter.
For the record, I use a 15" Dell laptop.
Things can't be real bad if shiney overpriced electronic bling are making 36% of profits.
Yeah... The government is paying for necessities, the rest goes on credit including the new iWhatever.
How does it work? The government prints money for the necessities it doles out and backstops all the creditors for the wants/desires.
What could go wrong???
This will hurt Apple...
Carriers such as AT&T – faced with plummeting margins at a six-year low – are now considering reducing iPhone subsidies and adopting stricter upgrade policies.
If instituted, these changes could result in a more expensive iPhone and an estimated worldwide drop in sales of 27.5 million units in the June quarter, with a revenue estimate $1 billion below consensus.
Blame it on “aggressive” upgrade policies instituted by the world’s carriers. That’s the crux BITG Research analyst Walter Piecyk wrote in a Monday note to clients:
Surely these earnings are not transitory.
I have yet to get a clear answer from an AAPL bull on why ARMH hadn't gone anywhere for a year.
Are the new iPads so badass they don't use chips?
Sweden has got IMania but we actually buy the products. I just got myself a IPhone at a silly low price: 0 kronas. Didn´t really need the damn thing but need to cut my rate. So I got a 50% cheaper phone bill and the latest IGadget... I feel Irie.
AAPL, whose products I use, makes Las Vegas look risk free.
So if I drop my iPhone in the toilet? Bullish?
I tried to drop my iPad in there but it bounced off the rimm. Hahaha! Rimm, get it?!!!
Dork :->
Some true AAPL humor...this is hilarious!
http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6648229/siri-argument
Bullish!!
And if you break some windows, even better!
There used to be smart guys that would know this and hedge accordingly. All of those guys are gone. Either they took what was left of their bat and ball and went home or are broke. Sack has done away with them all. Now what we have left in the pool are a bunch of sheep riding the train knowing they cant possibly bet against it. How quick do you think you will see izero on a bid when 700 hedge fund nubes want out all at once. The NY Fed will wind up owning 600 billion worth of AAPL. What a fucking joke this market has become. And just like the spectacle of the rest of our society, there is not one single journalist with the talent to explain it to the masses. Guess those 200,000 liberal arts degrees dont explain how to think too much.
Why is their a need for hedging anymore when the Bernank is out there to guarantee returns? That is of course until they decide to pull the rug out from under the sleeping sheep.
TBTM?*
*Too Big To Miss (earnings...ever)
If they have issues with the wireless companies just buy them up cash out of pocket. Fixed
Apple could buy Sprint today, lock stock and barrell, with money they can probably find in between their couch cushions. Deutsche Telekom wouldn't be much of a stretch either. They could buy 51% of Verizon with cash and they'd still have tens of billions left over.
Eating Rosie O'Donnell will eventually make crAAPLer keeper sick.
iChinese-Labor
I have a Samsung.............
I have an LG flip phone. I also have the ability to spend time with my family and friends without being distracted.
The govermnet will have to start issuing istamps when consumers start running out of savings and credit cards
OK so now that every bit of dumb fund retail money is piled all-in Apple, now what?
Is it too early to bust out my Dow 13,000 rally hat...again? The thrill of anticipation in muppet land must be thick...
ROFLMAO!
Yep! And just last Friday, every guru figured that the course was bad news and let stocks drop to give 'cover' for more bailouts...yet they cant seem to let her go....Ben keeps text messaging the DOW to please come back home! Oooo I miss you, DOW 13,400! Come home I'll make your favorite brownie sundae just how you like it!
And Apple has yet to deal with the flood of hacks and viruses aimed at Windows the past 20 years.
The safety of 5% market share is going away.
such as this
http://www.nasdaq.com/article/researchers-apples-mac-susceptible-to-flas...
OT, but LA County could have 73% shortfall in property tax forecast: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-county-taxes-20120410,0,3803374.story
"Think Different", is AAPL's Corporate motto. Yea, think like a slave owner since all AAPL products are made by FOXCONN where people work 12 hours/day, 6 days per week for $1.25/hr w/o benefits. I bet if someone can't keep up with the relentless assembly pace or gets sick they are taken off the line and sent to the countryside to work the fields. How does make you it make you feel when you show off you new iphone or ipad knowing that you promote these conditions? I thought the progressives cared. I guess the progressives are the biggest owners of AAPL products and stock. Think Different, think progressive.
I recommend you get a bullhorn and stand outside the Foxconn factory shouting at all the people lined up outside, each one with their fingers crossed that they might possibly get a job there.
You know, since you're a wise westerner and obviously know so much more about what's good for them than they do. Silly Chinese.
Ayn, is that you?
Doesn't take a narcissistic fiction writer to see that people gravitate towards their best option at any given time. If you tear down that option in a fit of righteous indigination, the next place they go is going to be less desirable for them.
"They may be prostitutes now, but at least they don't have to work in a factory! Liberal guilt satisfied!" *high-five*
No shit! Just think of where we'd be today if the North had minded its own God-damn business.
Obviously, choosing the best option for yourself requires the ability to choose in the first place.
Are the Chinese free to choose their place of employment, or are they forced to work in a particular place by the state?
You're not seriously inviting me into a discussion on free will, are you? Way too much epistomology there; I'm not that smart.
However, anyone still possesing both feet is always free to run away. Or try.
Saro,
I think there is a widespread belief that Foxconn employess have no choice but to work there because they've been sent there. I believe this is completely wrong and that the Chinese are free to look for work wherever they want and to leave if they want.
Perhaps i-dog or LawsofPhysics could tell us as they both apparently have business interests in China.
"Foxconn, which makes products for Apple, Microsoft, and others, said today that it had reached a deal with the protesting employees, the NYT reported. Most of those workers will return to work, although Foxconn also said that 45 workers involved in the dispute had resigned."
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-57358025-17/foxconn-settles-with-workers-who-threatened-mass-suicide/
Apple is a computer company, not a political movement.
"Think Different", is AAPL's Corporate motto. Yea, think like a slave owner since all AAPL products are made by FOXCONN where people work 12 hours/day, 6 days per week for $1.25/hr w/o benefits. I bet if someone can't keep up with the relentless assembly pace or gets sick they are taken off the line and sent to the countryside to work the fields. How does make you it make you feel when you show off you new iphone or ipad knowing that you promote these conditions? I thought the progressives cared. I guess the progressives are the biggest owners of AAPL products and stock. Think Different, think progressive.
How come you have not been pissed at Walmart for the last 10 years?
Phys GOLD and SILVER are in a bubble lets sell them and buy APPL(s), and I mean, not the physical ones.
Could there be a comparison here between the RCA stock bubble of the 1920's and the rise of AAPL? In both cases there is a corporation associated with a new and innovative communication technology that exites the masses. The share value of RCA at its peak in 1929, $573 is almost the same as AAPL's current share price. But when the stock market crashed in 1929, RCA lost 95 percent of its value.
Big difference, the servers being used to run the market, might be apple's. Selling and shorting are simply not allowed anymore.
No difference. Dumber central bankers but no actual difference.
Hi LawsofPhysics,
Could you give your opinion on whether Chinese workers are free to choose where they work. There's a lot of ignorance on the issue I think.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/apple-36-sp500-q1-earnings#comment-2332736
Many thanks in advance.
aapl is the market so pray for it to grow revs 3x this year it can be done as BEN deflates the value of the dollar - stocks higher as the $$ drops in value..an old game run by this corrupt gang of elite NWO reptiles.
Cook dumped his shares in March. Another cool $75mm+ to the top man and 500k jobs outsouced to China. And somehow so many Americans love this company.
Whew! Good thing Apple is not gold or it would be in a Mania Bubble!
Yay, we have handed China an economic WMD.
All they have to do is breathe the N word (nationalization, not the other one).
And they will. Oh yes, they will. Any time we talk too tough in their faces, or sometime ahead of a move on Taiwan. Whichever is sooner.
"Hey look Ma, this lit stick of dynamite is worth a few more gold flakes than it was before! Whoopee!"
THANK GOD for Chinese slave labor....what we do without it?
So after a few minutes meditation on this, I must confess I think it is IDEAL that we have one single company basically responsible for every major index and financial indicator.
This means that:
1) If something cataclysmic happens to Apple, we all know that every other metric/index is going to suffer dramatically
2) If "TPTB" are truly obsessed with maintaining index-stability and propping up paper valuations, they will be forced to protect Apple's commercial interests (RE: trade w/China, primarily)
3) Given that Apple has recently suffered major change in "leadership" and stock value in the past has been heavily dependent on Jobs, there should be a major committment (now or in near-future) from our government to help protect Apple's current valuation--it should be a perfect indicator of what actual government intervention is going to look like, rather than jawboning
ok, so if China for some reason, like maybe a U.S / Israel attack on Iran, were to become unhappy with us and not allow any more iThings to be exported ... what would happen to AAPL earnings again?
You'd see roaming gangs of hipsters and trendies stealing any iPhone or iPad in sight.
I would like to see the same chart using AAPL, GOOG and IBM
Pretty amazing that this phone manufactuer has such a large impact on the economy and the market!
Where's the soap so I can wash myself of this iRidiculous bubble?
Ridiculous.
bullish MASSIVE vulnerability.
All the eggs in ONE, GIANT, GODDAMNED BASKET....what could POSSIBLY go wrong?
Update for newest quarter please