Posted on 04/23/2014 2:16:12 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Apple will now pay out around $11 billion in yearly dividend payments.
The company’s dividend will also now rise yearly.
And...
http://www.tuaw.com/2014/04/23/apple-announces-7-1-stock-split-dividend-increase-and-expanded/
If they come up with just marginal improved product the stock will not go up much after that stock split. The iPhone is what made the stock go up and up. I may buy as I could use double the money. I figure it will do that at least.
It would be nice if it went back up to $700 a share... a new car, house, maybe a new wife...
Thank you. I’m overly reliant on my new Thomson Reuters Eikon.
iPods are now but a small percentage of Apple’s total revenue.
Invest in Microsoft. Their new iWindows 9 is coming soon.
$3.29 a share, or 3.29 / 7 after the split.
I thought that new dividend per share will be one seventh of $13.16 (or $1.88 per new share).
Well, tread carefully. Stocks bought for the short term is a gamble. I was lucky enough to have bought in the teens and mid-twenties, before Apple split and grew tremendously. I cashed out before the recent drops. If you buy now, buy for the long term. A couple years ago I overheard two old gents talking about investing what they had, into Apple stock. It was at a high, in the 600s. Sadly, all one guy had was $6000 in savings so he figured on buying ten shares. Shortly after, the stock dropped a lot. All his eggs in one basket.
When I invest, it's not about trying to make a killing to get a car, house or other things. It's a place to park my money to keep pace with inflation, and it's done well in that regard. Play safe!
I love my iPhone. I also like MS Excel. I build solutions with Excel and VBA that save companies hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Use the best of the best.
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Me too. Love my iPhone and iPad and build highly functional business apps using VBA with MS Access. You should give Access a look. Way more flexible than Excel but also able to export to your favorite spreadsheet via code or a couple of mouse clicks.
That won't stop the anti-Apple anat-lysts from finding the dark cloud in the silver lining. . .
I can see the headlines now! “Apple stock plummets to $81 per share in bloodbath following split!” They’ll ignore that the fact that the split one share which was worth only around $530 is now SEVEN SHARES trading at around $81 or so EACH with a combined net value of $560. . . because more small investors can demand to buy shares and drive the price up from there!
Now you have to be thinking $100 a share. That's the equivalent. $100 times 7 = $700 pre split
The profit per share was $11.62 this past quarter, but the dividend per share that the Board of Directors decides to declare will be somewhat less than that. Some will be retained by the company for future use, adding to the pot of money for acquisitions, R&D, etc, some will be used for debt retirement, and more will be used for stock buy backs, another form of equity return.
And that is for one quarter....
Depends on how you look at it. . . every iPhone and iPad IS an iPod. They've superseded the need for a separate function devices such as an iPod, still camera, video recorder, etc.
I am vindicated!!!!
LOL! Not exactly the way YOU predicted, is it? Nor for the reason you claimed. . .
Maybe not.
I wish Apple was not going to split. It is more mentally convenient the way it is is now. For comparing Google, Apple, Amazon, Samsung Netflix etc etc
Comparing the relative values of companies by comparing their stock prices is dumb, Dennis. That is demonstrated by this current seven for one split that Apple is doing to make its stock more attractive for small investors. It has zero effect on the company. It has a huge positive effect on current investors as demand from small investors will tend to drive the price up.
Getting back to my original point, Apple has split three times before this split. . . and therefore had the stock NOT split, the price of Apple stock would be around $530 x 2 x 2 x 2 or = $4240 a share, or there abouts! Compare that to the companies you mentioned prices per share. . . Only THEN will you have a real base of understanding relative value.
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