Dear Money Managers: Not Buying AAPL Stock Is "Financial Suicide"

Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) stock has been grabbing a lot of headlines.

Its financial figures are astounding. It's trading at a market cap of $725.4 billion. The latest Apple earnings revealed the company has $178 billion in cash.

Currently trading at around $126, Apple stock is worth $216 per share, according to activist investor Carl Icahn.

That would make Apple a trillion dollar company - and then some.

"They are such a juggernaut," Money Morning Technical Trading Strategist D.R. Barton said today (Thursday) in an appearance on FOX Business' "Varney & Co." "If you're a money manager and you don't have Apple in your portfolio it's basically financial suicide."

But it's not just the headline financial figures that have Barton excited. Here are some of the figures Barton said are even more exciting for AAPL stock, even if no one else is looking at them:

 

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