re: APPLE SPLITTING! What’s the play?

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Curious to know if you are satisfied with your overall investment? Have you held your original position over the last six years?
You've seen a healthy ROI but majority, if not all, was realized in the 12 months given the rebound since May 2019.
The growth from 2015-2017 was a marginal %.
17-Q3 2018 was strong but at EOY 2018 you were back to about a 50% ROI over 4 years.
2019 to date, its been on a tear, outside of the March fall out, but you're on track to see 300+% ROI over 6 years. Annualized not bad but again, majority of that was in the last 12-18 months.

So, what are your thoughts on the split and go forward?

I own 0 shares of Apple and just looking for perspective of long shareholder

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I've held Apple for several years and added to it here and there. Just a while back, I was considering selling and taking the profit after the run over the last 3 years had me up by a large percentage - you can go back and find the post I made about it on MT. Several here insinuated that I was crazy, and since there are folks here with a LOT more financial acumen than me, I took it as a sign, sold some other stocks/ETF positons and essentially doubled down on my stake. That brings my basis, as of today, up to $271 per share.

Obviously the last three years have been good to me with the stock and I'm extremely pleased with the performance. I don't contribute to that IRA anymore - what's there is there and I'll let it grow. If it gets to 20% of my portfolio in the IRA though, I'll likely sell some of it off and put it elsewhere. I've got some money in other funds that have had great performance over the last 10 years and would have outpaced Apple individually without what's happened this year though.