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Instead of making excuses for piss poor product introduction cycle in 2015 and an even poorer one expected in 2016 it would be best to focus on the facts. Any Company with 700bil net worth and 200bil cash on hand and looses 200bil in the same year is grossly mismanaged. In effect the PE is based on 500bil and nearly half the future of apple disappeared this year. They have all the cash they need but they just can't seem to find anything to invest in. Or is that 200bil gone?

Can you demonstrate where Apple "lost $200 billion in the same year?"

You cannot because Apple did not lose any money and in fact made a pot of money in 2015 and in fact INCREASED their holdings in 2015.

Apple Inc is not even involved in the speculations in the pieces of paper being traded around on the NASDAQ. . . except for the fact that they often buy back some of the shares when they are at bargain prices to retire those equities.

PE is NOT based on $700 Billion, or $500 Billion or anything like what you seem to think it's based on, Okie. PE is Price of a share of common stock compared to how much the company Earned decided by the number of outstanding shares. Thus if a share of common stock is $100 and the earnings of the company result in each share's earning being $10, then that company's PE is 10. The company's stock is selling for TEN TIMES EARNINGS. Right now, AAPL is selling for 11.75 times the earnings the company is making. That is phenomenally LOW for a stock. Netflix's share price is an amazing 305 times it'e ability to earn money. . . while Amazon's stock is selling at an astronomical and insane almost one thousand times its ability to earn money. . . and in the past has not even been able to have a PE because it has not posted a profit!

In other words, Okie, MARKET CAP, which is the price of the stock TIMES the number of outstanding shares, which gives the total value of the company ON THE STOCK MARKET, has nothing to do with the PE, but it should. The price of AAPL is totally irrational and in fact the people who sell it are irrational because they sell for emotional reasons, disconnected to sanity or facts or normal stock analysis. None of the predictions these mavins of negativity stock anal-cyst have predicted for AAPL have ever come to past but lots of people have lost money following their predictions and claims. It is THEM who have caused people to lose money speculating on AAPL, not Tim Cook and Apple's ability to produce profits which have been working quite nicely all along. . . without faltering, turning in record quarters after record quarters not only for Apple, but record quarters for ALL businesses everywhere!

You are continuing to prove you don't know what you are talking about in economics, finance, stock valuation, Market value, Price/Earnings ratios, and practically everything else you post on Apple and Stocks. As I said, you should not post when it makes everyone absolutely certain you are a fool. This one has been just a case in point. In fact, you are the poster child for such posts.