Drop it.
Apple is about to see a loss in their stock value.
They are currently in the middle of a slugfest lawsuit that even they themselves admit and recognize they will lose. The total amounts being pursued is in excess of 2 Billion USD. Even with a stock buyback, they wotn be able to make up those losses without depleting cash pools, which will be highly noticeable, and will decrease the value of their stock.
Id say decrease your apple stock, and pick up iron mountain and palto alto. They are the two highest steady gainers over the past 10 years, and show trends for continual increase for at least the next 3-5 years.
Wow, excellent analysis.
The only problem is that all that information (which is highly visible well-known information and/or wrong) would already be built into the stock prices, and so won't affect future valuation.
Your comments are a bit like the person who says "I'm investing in Walmart before Christmas because people always buy a lot of stuff for the holidays!"
What you're failing to realize, is in all reality, its absolutely not.
In fact, its quite the opposite. People are mostly betting on three things, that very poorly judged concept of "its already configured in" which its not, and the fact that apple will win the lawsuit, which they wont, and the "kicking of the can" so to speak, as the legal battle has been waging between the two giants for over a decade now.
What will end up happening to apple is the same they did to samsung, their flagship phone, the Iphone 6, will most likely be banned from sales in the US due to massive copyright infringements on the Nexus 4.
When this occurs, outside of the 2.7 oddish Billion dollars in reparations, the iphone 6 will additionally be banned from sales in the US, and most likely have pursued bans in other countries, likeness for likeness, as they did to samsung. Its exactly why apple made the move to try and settle the murky waters with samsung recently, trying to "wave off" some 40ish lawsuits between the two, to make amends.
They did this specifically because the iphone 6 is their flagship, and a primary breadwinner for Apple. If it becomes banned, it will be a devastating blow to Apple, as compared to their ding they tossed at samsung, owned by the mammoth Google.
What many people fail to realize here, is Ive called the tech increases for Ionic security (doubled recently), Palo Alto, Cisco, EMC, RSA (and the buyout), Iron Mountain, check point, sourcefire, and Threatgrid.
I work in the industry, I follow the industry, and I have personal relationships with many of their major distributors, as well as the companies themselves. I know when they are doing well, and when they are not. So trust me when I say, Apple is absolutely going to see a % based drop in their stock value pending verdicts on both their case with Samsung, and their Class action against their Ipod.
Collectively the Ipod and Iphone make the majority of their sales. Dont try to feed me some half cocked "They are calculated losses" crap. Noone, regardless of who they are, can adjust their stock value for an unprecedented catastrophic loss like that. Nobody. Not even berkshire. You're gonna see points lost. Get ready for it.