It’s a game of “if only” millions of investors have played: “What if I had bought Apple stock when it first went public!”
And make no mistake, those gains would have been substantial.
If you had bought AAPL stock at its IPO, you’d have reaped gains of 39,500%.
It would have been like buying a lottery ticket.
But there was a way to land much, much bigger gains from Apple than buying the IPO.
It’s a game of “if only” millions of investors have played: “What if I had bought Apple stock when it first went public!”
And make no mistake, those gains would have been substantial.
If you had bought AAPL stock at its IPO, you’d have reaped gains of 39,500%.
It would have been like buying a lottery ticket.
But there was a way to land much, much bigger gains from Apple than buying the IPO.
This is how one man made 220,552% from AAPL…
Apple is rolling out a host of new services this year, but the company didn't mention its biggest one yet, and it could send its stock price up 50%.
D.R. Barton, Jr., has identified a second opportunity for you to buy this tech giant, and he says now is the perfect time.
See what company he is talking about...
There's no shortage of loud distractions out there for investors right now, competing for our precious mental bandwidth. I'm bombarded with it every day, just like you are.
The good news is you can tune all that "stuff" out, because there are really just two things to focus on right now.
First, revenue drives earnings, and earnings drive stock prices - line up one, and the other is almost certain to follow.
Second - and as folks are quickly discovering in my new Straight Line Profits service - knowing how to determine whether a stock should be higher is absolutely critical to your investing success.
I know that sounds obvious, but you'd be amazed at how many investors don't connect the two.
Apple - a company that's already doubled our money - is a great example of what I'm talking about...
There's no doubt in my mind: The string of double- and triple-digit profits we've made together over the years is the strongest possible proof that our approach to making money in topsy-turvy global markets is the right one.
It's tough to argue with success, and if you were following along with our Money Map Report recommendations last year, you took down a least 36 winners - including profits as high as 200.5%, 205%, and 276.9% - while the broad market tanked 6.24%.
You even booked a 100.95% gain on Apple itself, taking all your principal off the table and letting the profits "ride" as a "free trade."
That approach put us light-years ahead of Wall Street and the mainstream financial media, and it's kept us there for more than 10 years.
Now, I could normally give two hoots what they have to say, but the headlines in the wake of Apple's latest earnings numbers said, well... damn near everything we've been talking about for the past two years...
CNBC - "Investors who sold Apple after its first quarter warning are looking silly now"
Bloomberg - "Apple shares climb as the company outlines life beyond the iPhone"
Financial Times - "Apple bets that 900m iPhone users will underpin growth"
China Daily - "Apple opens new chapter as iPhone sales fall"
This proves our point: Life will be just fine without the iPhone!
More importantly, between the lines, it hints at a massive, extremely profitable shift that's just getting underway over at 1 Infinite Loop in Cupertino.
Apple's getting ready to throw a multibillion-dollar party - one we're all dressed and ready for.
Consider its latest earnings numbers your engraved invitation...
D.R. Barton, Jr., just gave his two buy levels for Apple, and one of them isn't what you think.
Investors shouldn't be concerning themselves with the new iPhone debut.
In this video, Capital Wave Strategist Shah Gilani lays out the true value of Apple stock...
Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) recently hit the largest market capitalization any company has ever hit, rising over $1 trillion.
But the soaring market cap might make some investors skeptical about investing in Apple right now.
Don't be fooled. Our Apple stock price prediction shows the stock hitting $300 a share...
We recently gave you our own spin on Apple Inc.'s historic move up through the $1 trillion market-value threshold.
I say "historic" because Apple was the first company to pierce that trillion-dollar barrier.
Or was it?
In an intriguing (and kinda cool) piece in its August issue, Money magazine argues the iDevice king wasn't the world's first trillion-dollar company.
Indeed, the magazine said five other companies hit the trillion-dollar mark before Apple. It referred to these five other firms as charter members of the "Four-Comma Club."
"When you search globally and historically, you'll find plenty of examples of dominant corporations that actually dwarf Apple's market size - after you inflation-adjust their value to today's dollars," Money reporter Ryan Derousseau writes. "Once you do that, several dominant companies have already made it into the four-comma club."
I know what you're thinking: "C'mon, Bill, by adjusting for inflation, this writer is playing games with the numbers."
True, but we should be used to games of that ilk: I mean, Wall Street plays games with numbers all the time.
So do most public companies.
This "game" is actually pretty scintillating. And it doesn't change the fact that Apple (which has given you a 266% gain since Zenith Trading Circle Editor Shah Gilani recommended Apple in July 2013 at a split-adjusted price of $60.10 a share) continues to be one of our "Accumulate" stocks.
So let's take a look at the charter members of Money's "Four-Comma Club" companies. Then we'll circle back and tell you why the stock is still on our "Accumulate" list.
Let me share with you why I find this so fascinating...
Goldman Sachs says that hedge fund managers don't like Apple.
But we know what statements like this are really all about...
Here's what Wall Street is really up to, and where we see Apple going in the long term...
We have a new bold Apple stock price target.
There could be more double-digit gains on the way for Apple shareholders.
Here's everything you need to know...
Money Morning experts Shah Gilani and Keith Fitz-Gerald appeared on "Varney & Co." this week.
They explained why investors need to look beyond the iPhone and what signs to look for in 2018...
Keith sees Apple valued at $1 trillion by the end of this year.
The Q4 Apple earnings were unusually strong, but that wasn't the biggest Apple news last week.
While Wall Street celebrated Apple's earnings, it completely missed a shift in strategy destined to fuel growth at the tech giant for years to come.
That's too bad, because what the company is planning will drive the Apple stock price up more than 40% over the next three years.
This is the most significant development at Apple since the debut of the iPhone in 2007...
The biggest fast money on Apple comes before earnings are out, not after.
