{"id":2639,"date":"2012-02-17T12:00:15","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T17:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=2639"},"modified":"2012-02-17T04:03:02","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T09:03:02","slug":"is-apples-stock-a-bargain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/is-apples-stock-a-bargain\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Apple\u2019s Stock a Bargain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/021712_0846_IsApplesSto1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Apple&#8217;s share price now makes it more valuable than both Microsoft and Google <em>combined<\/em>. Yet Manjoo argues that there&#8217;s still plenty of room for it to rise:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>During Jobs&#8217; tenure Apple&#8217;s shares rose by more than 350%<\/li>\n<li>However its revenues have grown even faster, so that the price to earnings ratio has declined.<\/li>\n<li>Apple&#8217;s P\/E ratio is ~14. To put that in context Google has a P\/E of 20 and Amazon&#8217;s is an amazing 139.<\/li>\n<li>Apple is not at its natural peak; rather it is at the cusp of a new era of growth. The iPhone may not dominate in smart-phone market share, but it does dominate smartphone profits, of which it commands 75%. The numbers in the tablet market are even more heavily skewed in Apple&#8217;s favour.<\/li>\n<li>Smartphones and tablets have just begun to become popular and as more and more people adapt to the new technologies, Apple is poised to grab a significant portion of the revenues.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read more about Apple&#8217;s future, its opportunities, and the performance of its new CEO click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/technology\/technology\/2012\/02\/why_apple_stock_is_still_a_great_buy_at_500_a_share_.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/technology\/technology\/2012\/02\/why_apple_stock_is_still_a_great_buy_at_500_a_share_.html\">Slate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple&#8217;s share price now makes it more valuable than both Microsoft and Google combined. Yet Manjoo argues that there&#8217;s still plenty of room for it to rise: During Jobs&#8217; tenure Apple&#8217;s shares rose by more than 350% However its revenues have grown even faster, so that the price to earnings ratio has declined. Apple&#8217;s P\/E [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/021712_0846_IsApplesSto1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2645,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639\/revisions\/2645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}