Apple-What's y'all thoughts on the stock moving forward?

i think its pretty safe to say their golden era is over

but how much longer can they milk their customers before actually innovating again?

i can buy a $200 smartphone and be just as satisfied as the $900 from apple

for this reason, id def sell

(i sold mine a couple years ago, ftr)

Well, they just murdered earnings..

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near record highs again

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Though it was like 130?

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It was a little over $132 in 2015. Dropped as low as $90 in 2016 where I picked up some more. I've been holding since 2008. I keep thinking I'll sell but I keep adding when it drops and watch it come back up. I'm hoping the 10th anniversary iPhone makes a big splash this year. Maybe I'll finally sell after

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aapl has been my largest position for a while, and i had a sell order at $135 a few years ago. as mentioned, it almost got there, and then plummeted.

i want to dump the stock soon, as i just dont see myself holding it for 10, 20 or 30 more years (im 35). ive made a good amount on apple, but i just don't see them sustaining their dominance forever. what happened to microsoft in the early 00s scares me off.

I've bought and sold AAPL several times over the years. The core position that I still hold I've had since the early 2000's. With the dividends, I'm pretty much playing with house money at this point, so I'll continue to hold/wait & see.

My biggest concern is with Tim Cook's leadership (or lack thereof) on the innovation front. I've seen people in nursing homes (on walkers!) move faster than this guy. As a supply chain guru and a financial engineer, he is clearly in a league of his own. But even though the contribution of Services to the top and bottom lines is really picking up speed, Services largely relies on Apple selling more hardware, since non-Apple hardware can't really play well (or at all) within the walled garden.

Just based on Apple (Cook) taking forever to launch certain hardware and/or features, update certain hardware, giving other hardware half-hearted updates and not seeming to have a clear direction on the TV/media front or the automobile sector, yeah, I'm concerned that Tim-Tim could turn Apple into IBM or Microsoft (circa 2005). It seems like he can only get Apple to really work on one big thing at a time... everything else just muddles along. One analyst likened Cook to Steve Ballmer. From 1000 feet in the air, I can't disagree with that so far. He seems a lot more like Ballmer or Ginni Rometty than Steve Jobs when it comes to innovation and creating buzz around the brand.

Let's see what Trump does with taxes on overseas cash piles. That could be a healthy one time bump or it could be ongoing. Even if it's just a one time bump, it could be a buy as a trade. In addition to that, the monster that should be the iPhone 8 (or iPhone 10 or whatever it'll be called) should make it a buy for now, IMO. I'm just going to sit and watch though.

But longer term, there's still Tim-Tim Cook.

Always buy Apple.
The company earns like crazy. They make quality products.

Yea, a lot of the hedge fund creeps are talking it down. "Their innovation days are over"...since when? says who?

And it's not even over-priced...still a modest P/E ratio.