AAPL

Mo_Steins_Ghost

I sold 3000 shares of AAPL six months before the original iPod came out. I purchased them at $18.75 a share. Now, you can say "hindsight is 20/20" sure, and in most cases you'd be right. However, if anyone should have had the foresight, you'd think it would be the guy whose undergrad thesis in 1996 was on the future of music distribution going to digital downloads at the click of a button.

pizza_the_mutt

I sold all my AAPL in 2002. In 2008 a friend suggested I buy back in, but I figured it had run as far as it could.

VibeySwingTrader

Ouch. I retired at 39 because I bought TSLA, AAPL, and AMZN in college.

blipsman

Shit, that worse than my selling $1500 basis AAPL for $75k to fund house down payment, that today would be $1.1m. House has appreciated by about $350k.

shawman123

based on how their revenue is growing, I think it wont hit 9 trillion in next few years. But they are steady and will keep growing. the brand moat is not going away. Even though chinese flagships have phenomenal specs, even in China Apple is selling well. I could see them do well with their Specs and other not so crazy priced hardware. Even Macbook neo can do 5x sales if they can improve the supply. So I would hold on to my AAPL shares. For some reason I am scared to own NVDA but they can easily double if they keep growing at this crazy rate. I can see them hit 10-12Trillion in next 2 years. GOOG can grow from current price though not sure about doubling. AMZN/MSFT have good potential. Dont like META at all despite them pushing gazllion ads to FB/Insta. But their market cap can grow from current levels. TSLA is not my cup of tea and so I am staying out of it.

zendaddy76

Just hold for longer, set a trailing stop, maybe 20%, if you’re worried about losing money. Or sell 1/2 at ATH and keep the rest. I’ve successfully used this strategy with some big wins (MSFT since 98, AAPL since 2012, NVDA since 2020, currently holding AVGO AMD TSM MRVL GOOG - all with trailing stops that haven’t triggered, still riding them on the way up). Also I bought META when PE was low, around 200 a share, these aren’t dogshit stocks if you hold for longer and have conviction. Tha said, 90% of my money is VT and chill, 10% play money is for fun.

SangerGRBY

You have a 40% roi. You are better than 99% of people here. Anyways number of stocks doesnt mean anything. % of portfolio makes more sense. Group them by sectors to see how much overlaps you have. Trim down redundant positions. If your portfolio is 100k, and you have positions < 3k. Those holdings are unlikely to move your PnL by much. e.g., You own 1 AAPL at $300 it could triple overnight but barely move ur % roi by 1%.

jim-i-am

I prob hold about 25% of the shares I bought in that tranche. It's a big number. The other 75% still has done well, but sold AAPL over the years, and moved into index funds as it obviously became a high percentage of my portfolio. Funny thing if I would have held it, it would have gotten far larger than the risk concerns. Funny thing, I spent like 5 seconds thinking about it. I had just moved it into an IRA from an old employer, and was the first and only stock I bought. Oh, a Roth 😉

Altruistic-Pin3207

Solid — 8 of 11 is well above darts, and the AAPL/MSFT/AMZN "didn't pin exactly but stayed in range" is the part most writeups skip. Curious whether your hit rate splits cleanly across the king-magnitude buckets. Big absolute-GEX kings (SPY/QQQ where dealer hedging is biggest) should be more reliable pins than the meme-y single names. I started logging mine in [strikerate.ca](http://strikerate.ca) by underlying and the result was less flattering than I assumed — most of my "GEX edge" was really the index ETFs, not the single names. One Friday is signal but not a sample size, so the underlying-level split is where the actual edge call is.

DarkDruid8

I started a small position when RKLB entered Nasdaq, and then got thousands of shares when it was around 4-5 usd. I think that RKLB is a great company with awesome leadership. But the stock price is insane right now and I sold all my shares. Market cap almost 80B with 680M revenue? And if anyone expects that Neutron will boost the revenue and make it to catch up, then they should actually read what the company itself is saying about expected rump up of Neutron launches and price per each of them. I will happily jump on board again when it drops, because I love the company. But right now it feels like Tesla in 2021 - the company is growing and of course it will be a bigger and better company in a few years, but the stock is so much ahead of itself, that it might easily spend years waiting for the company to catch up (or in the worse case drop significantly to get realigned with the company's business). And as for your move, I think you should ask yourself what is your risk tolerance. Holding AAPL for years and then switching to RKLB doesn't make much sense unless your risk tolerance increased significantly in the meantime. Because if your risk tolerance would be still the same, then you were either too conservative before or you are in FOMO and risking too much right now. But either way, good luck! 🙂

nikita58467

BRKB sold some AAPL shares but still hold more than 20% in their portfolio. Diversify is good for them.

FNFactChecker

Thank you, Captain Obvious. Yes, any politician trading single stocks is suspect, but not all of it is insider trading. She's made a ton of money on liquid megacaps like AAPL, for instance. However, does seem to use deep ITM calls like a floor trader, so that part is what's shady, along with the timing of more than a few large trades. Here's a list you can sort by ticker: https://www.insiderfinance.io/congress-trades/politician/nancy-pelosi TL;DR: We need term limits and no fossils at any and all levels of government

Potential_Salt_5780

I’m pretty sure people are not just buying AAPL because everything else is. AAPL’s services now make up 1/4 of their business. It is a high margin software business and still growing. Most people who misrate and misunderstand AAPL because they see it as a hardware company. Ok but that hardware business has close to 40% margin. But the biggest caveat is that you can’t buy iOS or OSX without buying the hardware as they don’t license their operating systems. There’s plenty of room to grow. They keep buying back stock, India will be the next China, and nearly 2 billion activated devices will need to be upgraded. Been holding AAPL since 2001 and went all in 2007 after the first iPhone launch. I cannot count the number of times people claiming AAPL is dead and the growth cannot continue.

LOTTO1004

ohh okok... it just all these idiots from both side calling shit out without doing simple reading is just annoying lolol trust me this weekend aint gonna be good for both sides Godspeed on your AAPL puts

ImprovementFun3572

Not coping, holding underwater AAPL puts lol

-imivan-

No, AAPL is going up by at least 50%

RphAnonymous

For me, it's both the overleveraging itself and the fact that this creates an exploitable vulnerability in our entire financial system, not unlike the World Trade Centers in 2001. The issue isn't necessarily the belief itself - it's the manifestation of the belief in overleveraging to the point of irrationality. Historically, overleveraging results in bubbles and crashes - whether it be tech stock, real estate, oil, etc... Diversification offers protection. The thing that makes this situation unique is that it is the entire SP500 index that is overleveraged in AI, instead of just banks, which is the gold standard against which every other benchmark is made and is considered the main source of diversification for the average person, particularly when it comes to things like 401ks. It makes this particular crash somewhat more haunting, especially given that we are heading into inflation and an unprecedented proportion of our population relying on retirement income sources. Social security ends basically in 7 years, 14 if they cut the benefits in half - combine that the only real other financial support retirees will have shortly being 401k and this is a massively risky and scary situation. The younger generation doesn't make enough to support their parents when things crash - 60% of the population is paycheck to paycheck. So, what happens to the entire market when the younger population can't spend because they are paycheck to paycheck and potentially trying to bail out their parents, and the older generation can't spend because their entire main 2 sources of income tanked in relative proximity to each other? You have a market collapse. Nobody makes money if nobody can spend money... It's a bubble collapse because it is precipitated by overleveraging in one sector or group of companies within a sector. Nobody gives two shits about AI services if they can't eat. The government will likely be forced to step in and force AI back to allow jobs to be made so people can get income, but that will also make the AI bubble crash harder and those 401ks tank harder. It's a lose-lose for government intervention - basically they will be forced to consider bailing out those companies, but that is going to be WAY WORSE than the 2008 bailout, causing inflation and pressing the market down. This is looking like 2008 all over again, but instead of banks being the source, it's the lack of diversification in the assets that were intended to be naturally regulated for diversification, and thus THE primary source of investment for much of America. There's also the fact that in a free-market, ultra capitalistic society, overleveraging the entire market does not represent just a financial vulnerability, but a strategic, national security issue. If I wanted to send the US into financial turmoil, I'd just Luigi Mangione the Execs of those companies, or bomb their R&D divisions and headquarters. Literally, one well placed bomb, not unlike the trade centers in 2001, can crash the ENTIRE market governing nearly every US citizen's financial future - in fact, it's EASIER than the trade centers. I'm surprised the government is allowing such a vulnerability to persist, except that they all are inside traders (their own admission) and can easily retire rich by not doing anything and making it someone else's problem. Quite frankly, NVDA, AAPL, AMZN, MSFT, and GOOGL/GOOG should all be removed from the SP500 index entirely. I think 50x the median value of the index would be a decent limit for index inclusion to limit over-representation. Give them their own tech index instead of basically just making the entire SP500 index another tech index. 30+% of the index is too much for one technology to be THE FULCRUM of it all.

NeighborhoodDry1821

Look at AAPL last half hour lol, wtf they so hot n horny for that rn?

VeryMercurial

AAPL said hold up yall im coming down too pls wait for me 😂

dvdmovie1

> Is there ever a chance that parts of DISNEY like ESPN, HULU, or Disney+ may eventually be acquired by other companies such as NFLX or AAPL? I don't think so (especially Disney+) and they just bought CMCSA's share of Hulu not that long ago - they're probably not going to backtrack on that any time soon. ESPN has lost about 40% of the viewership in the last decade; any purchase would probably not be from a position of strength.

Outrageous_Tip_2133

Is there ever a chance that parts of DISNEY like ESPN, HULU, or Disney+ may eventually be acquired by other companies such as NFLX or AAPL? In that case, isn't there a case to hold some DISNEY stock just in case?

Dependent-Ad-1600

Don’t feel bad, I sold my AAPL 310 calls when the price hit 308 then it shot up to 311 and some change right after

WillTheGreat

AAPL showing a little profit taking all day. Bought some 5/26 305p. Semi-lottos. I think if there's any pullback in the market over the weekend, it could potentially drag it down to 300.

_TheOoze_

TL,DR: Calls. AAPL is slow-rolling their agentic improvements to the trash that is Siri. AAPL will rip so hard when it's released, and will have cornered the market on mobile native AI. They always come late to the game, but end up with the best of breed product in the end. It's telling that OpenAI is rushing to get a phone out.

UnObtainium17

I kinda new i fucked up selling all my AAPL when I went to pick up my preorder of 17 pro and close to a third of the people walking around the mall was carrying a small Apple store paper bag.

alreadysharpened

Never selling AAPL

jcpopm

Feels more like AAPL is only going up because everything else has and people figure "yeah why not give it a go." Literally nothing has changed and it's the most expensive megacap even before the move.

Green_Conclusion5792

Okay Tim we get that your phone sales have been doing good. This is the same news headline we saw since October and it’s the only one that keeps pumping AAPL

Metacog_Drivel

AAPL: Does nothing \-All time highs. NVDA: Does a lot \-Red

PropheticMurmurs

AAPL pumping to new ATHs every day isn’t necessarily a good thing. Apple is a safety stock. It’s where people park money when they get nervous and think there might be some fuckery incoming.

NeighborhoodDry1821

Slept in, AAPL puts for June 18 down a considerable amount… too HODL or not

OhhPeeee

AAPL

COBRA_DROGO

Thanks AAPL

mtnrnnr802

I think my strategy for the next decade will be to buy AAPL leaps on deep red weeks then chill

2Hosslovescash

Sorry peeps, just unloaded a fuck ton of AAPL been holding for years.

NoProfessional4650

AAPL you absolute dog

Rosella2562

AAPL rallying on the one week I didn’t buy weekly/0DTE calls makes perfect sense actually - When the stock doesn’t love you back 😪

GrassOrAss954

Yo, AAPL is an absolute ANIMAL

dj_samuelitobx

I'm sitting pretty on AAPL

lostinspacs

AAPL is the scam today. Calls 🚀🚀🚀

GrassOrAss954

All hail AAPL! King of Kings!

Keiigo

AAPL is 308? Tf happened?

GrassOrAss954

Everyone pile into AAPL…..it will be carrying the entire market today.

lostinspacs

AAPL calls are free money. Goes up with the market but not down with it

TheCountEdmond

AAPL just ate through 20m of sells and is still ready to break through 309. Are people waking up that apple is the only AI neutral tech play?

VariationAgreeable29

I love when everyone was shitting on AAPL for being at 260 lolololol idiots

Comfortable-Sky7801

AAPL is one of those stocks you could have as the only thing in your port your entire life and youd still be doing good. Bought more sometime last month and am up 14%.

d33p7r0ubl3

AAPL doing the thing

CoffeeandJags

AAPL glorious 

lehman-the-red

AAPL

obxtalldude

I bought AAPL in 1998. Sold it in 2013. Good run but... damn. Had another good run with TSLA - got in in 2017. But... lost a fair chunk of that trying to short it after selling it last year. Overall, putting everything in an index fund is the best idea. But starting out with only $2000... pretty glad I took a chance on what looked like a dying company in 1998.

solariac

My entire port is VOO, AAPL, MSFT, ASTS, PLTR, TSLA. Most of my gains are just buying every ASTS dip.

imustbegthequestion

U/SickOh must be a lurker. The gall to try and come for me. Must be bald now. Account is still active. Y'all... Invest in Rogaine. Still a thing right. Get off this site with your AAPL nonsense.

Old_Bay_Boy

This isn't the best sub to get advice for this, but I plan on doing something similar where I'll sell off some AMZN (currently 75% of my port) into my preferred ETFs once it hits certain milestones. I'm going with primarily growth & momentum - SPMO, VUG, and some VOO, paired with GOOG and AAPL, which I already built a position on. I expect I'll still be 40%+ AMZN for the coming years, but this will diversify me a bit.

Reachin4ThoseGrapes

VOO and SPY move almost identically for what it's worth. Greater exposure on either is a good call in a bull market is you're looking at ETFs rather than individual stocks. Both have returned about 26.6% over a 1yr timespan (obviously that fluctuates year to year depending on market conditions). Personally I think holding VOO, VTI and VUG simultaneously in a taxable account is too much overlap. Consider picking just one. For reference, VUG is just rolling together holdings of various stocks you are already currently holding (presently I believe VUG is 11-12% AAPL, 8-9% MSFT, 5% AMZN; largest holding is NVDA)

Lake-Life

Better idea, don’t buy META. Unless you want to give more of your money to billionaire fucks like Mark Zuckerberg. Also, avoid purchasing AMZN, MSFT, GOOGL, AAPL, TSLA, SPCX, OpenAI (includes passive ETFs like VOO, SPY, QQQ since they are now heavily weighted in those companies) unless you want to donate your money to the billionaires so they can SBLOC for mega yachts.

paistecymbalsrock

My first six bagger was crocs in 1999 or there abouts. I put that profit into an out of favor AAPL in 2001 at $29 a share. Took some profits off AAPL into Baba and JD and V and AMZN. To answer your question, yes!

Rexultdis

Anyone else mostly pick tickers they like the name of? LUNR is nice, for example. 10/10 name. Extremely investable. It’s not like AAPL where you don’t know what you’re getting. Hope you guys are doing well

ImprovementFun3572

Any gooners know why they smashing the bid on AAPL?

val913

I wish I had put the whole $10k in AAPL that day. Instead I diversified, got $1500 in each XOM, Merck, and GE. They are all doing alright too... When GE split into 3 companies and Vernova took off it's been a fun ride.

val913

I guess I'm an old guy... I was 26, I bought $1500 worth of AAPL, equating to14 shares, when it was $104.50 in 2008. The sky was falling, I think the S&P was around 7500 and CNBC talking heads were all freaking out that it was going to drop down to 5000. I figured, I'm not retiring tomorrow, why not. Then it split. Then it split again like 7-1 so now I have 343 shares. This is currently my #1 investment outside of my 401k, valued at about $118k.

Good_Ride_2508

I did not invest during 2000 period, but my friend and mentor who suggested LT buy and hold , has 10 million in AAPL stock which he bought 1999-2000 period. I can upload his proof if you want. Similarly, another friend bought TSLA - just after For price range of $35 through $180 , now holds more than 45 millions net worth. He also produced proof as he was completing with me in buying Tesla stock which I bought for $41 and sold at $275!

GrassOrAss954

God himself is an AAPL investor. Absolutely bulletproof.

Turbulent-Beauty

Well, my one stock pick was AAPL circa 1997. Steve Jobs was a childhood idol of mine, and I hardcore believed he was going to turn things around when Apple acquired NeXT and brought him back. Unfortunately, I was a minor and my parents would not let me invest my paper route money in a single company, especially not one that was on the brink of failure. I argued that was an even more compelling reason to buy. AAPL was a tremendous value. They took me to a financial advisor who recommended that I invest in an S&P 500 mutual fund. My dad gave a talk about being responsible with my money. You know the rest of the story. In hindsight, I should have stood my ground. I’ll always be kicking myself for my compliance. If you have kids, definitely let them buy stock in their favorite company. Even if their pick goes bankrupt, there is plenty of time for them to recover from the set back. And, who knows, their favorite company might be the next 28,000% growth stock.

GrassOrAss954

I’d like to give a shoutout to AAPL for publicly flogging me today.

bronfmanhigh

john AAPL bag holders how we FEELIN today at these wonderful ATHs

Internal-Science2137

MAG7 companies print cash. AAPL had $95B FCF last year, MSFT $70B. most hype stocks are still burning cash to stay alive

TheCountEdmond

AAPL is inventing the green dildo as we speak

Several-Bridge-6287

I feel like AAPL is getting pricey. If Walmart is struggling to sell stuff, I can't imagine iphones and airpods are going to boom.

moldyjellybean

yeah he did file that he bought Pypl, MSTR, COIN but that hasn't done much for those. He did buy NVDA, AMD, AAPL in the filing on all those semi stocks are flying.

vermilli21

Don't expect SPY to go even more red, NVDA is holding 218, GOOGL is green and so is AAPL

AstronautPossible374

Don’t worry bers I bought AAPL calls right at the top, should be all downhill from here

UnObtainium17

AAPL quietly back to ath after sliding from $290 to $240 early this year.

CoffeeandJags

Nice AAPL, very cool 

TranzitBusRouteB

oh, I should’ve bought MSFT in 1980, thnx but fr everyone knows about the Mag 7 at this point, their market caps are so massive they have much less upside potential than some up and comers my fave mag 7 are prbly GOOG and AAPL

WillTheGreat

Kinda hilarious AAPL has been the derisk for semis, which has now driven AAPL to be relatively overvalued

tsunamiwaves_

I'm genuinely curious who is selling META and buying AAPL at these prices.

ProudPeak3570

why dont they just create an SP3 with NVDA, GOOG, AAPL and let it cook

maffoobristol

People need to accept that NVDA is now just the same as AAPL. Slow and stable. It's not the 1000x growth beast it was a couple of years back.

TacoToesyay

He got AAPL in 2016, didn't completely miss

Potential_Salt_5780

FIRE’d in 2024. About 2/3 in index funds, rest equities: long term AAPL, GOOG, NVDA, etc. I play around with 1-2% of the portfolio on various moonshots. I’ve done very well picking stocks over the 30 years so I will continue to play around.

moorhound

Ok, so the IPO valuation of SpaceX is estimated to be around $2T. That would currently put it at over 100x trailing revenue (AAPL trades at 3x, Amazon at 4x). And, they're actually *losing* money at a 2:1 cash burn as per their recent filing. How did they come up with the valuation? Well, when SpaceX merged with xAI, the boards (both controlled by 🍈 with an >80% voting share) self-evaluated the combined entity at $1.25T, $1T for SpaceX (who's pre-meeger value was estimated at $350bn) and $250bn for xAI. Yes, Elon just kind of decided to triple his company's value out of thin air, and that set the IPO floor. As per their S-1, they're justifying this by saying they're targeting a $28.5T addressable market covering telecom, defense contracting, and AI infrastructure (although the combined revenue for *every company* in *all of these sectors* was $4T combined in 2025). Basically, this shits retarded, dudes in lala land and everyone's just kind of going along with it.

Worried_Quarter469

| # | Company | Market Cap | Revenue (most recent) | |---|---------|------------|------------------------| | 1 | NVIDIA (NVDA) | ~$5.4T | $215.9B (FY26, Jan 2026) | | 2 | Alphabet (GOOGL) | ~$4.9T | $402.8B (2025) | | 3 | Apple (AAPL) | ~$4.4T | $416.2B FY25 (~$436B TTM) | | 4 | Microsoft (MSFT) | ~$3.0T | $281.7B FY25 (~$294B TTM) | | 5 | Amazon (AMZN) | ~$2.9T | $716.9B (2025); $742.8B TTM | | 6 | TSMC (TSM) | ~$2.1T | $122.4B (2025) | | 7 | Broadcom (AVGO) | ~$2.0T | $63.9B FY25; $68.3B TTM | | 8 | Saudi Aramco (2222) | ~$1.80T | $448.6B TTM | | 9 | **SpaceX (proposed IPO)** | **~$1.75T** | **~$15B (2025); $22–24B est. 2026** | | 10 | Tesla (TSLA) | ~$1.7T | $97.9B TTM | | 11 | Meta (META) | ~$1.6T | $201.0B (2025) | | 12 | Berkshire Hathaway (BRK) | ~$1.0T | $395.1B TTM | | 13 | Walmart (WMT) | ~$1.0T | $713.2B (FY26) |

JakeSaco

I've already made my choice and the ones from the list woudl be NVDA, AAPL, GOOGL, MSFT, and I would add AMZN too. Hold those and you will consistently beat the S&P because they are the drivers of it.

Internal_Control_320

I think i saw a video on the copound where they shared a stat that APPL's iphone annual revenue alone are more than NVDAs .. that was mind bending... AAPL and NVDA are my biggest holdings

KYEEZY98

I haven't heard anyone mention AAPL stock since 2020

Altruistic-Pin3207

Solid setup reasoning on the VRP and IV cheapness. Worth a quick check on the broader portfolio side: if you're already in AAPL, AMD, GOOGL, or AVGO alongside this NVDA IC, [strikerate.ca](http://strikerate.ca) just shipped a geographic concentration map that plots all your open positions by company HQ. AAPL/NVDA/GOOGL/AMD are all within a 15-mile radius in Santa Clara — a semiconductor export control, Bay Area earthquake, or earnings contagion hits the cluster as one risk event, not isolated tickers. Not a reason to sit out, just context for how much actual delta is concentrated in one metro when you enter.

option-trader

Might as well. If they are reporting $200-$300B in annual profits, then $6T sounds cheap. I see GOOG, MSFT, and AAPL are only reporting around $100-$130B in annual profits. I guess NVDA is worth 2 of these 3?

option-trader

Q2 numbers were $91B in revenue with 75% gross margin and $8.3B ops expense. That's an operating margin of 65.8% at $59.95B. Wow, Seems like NVDA is clearly pulling in more profits than any of the other Mag7 stocks now. AAPL, MSFT, and GOOG have operating income between $35-$40B. I guess if we're going by numbers, either NVDA is undervalued, or the other Mag7s are overvalued.

Wonderful-Sail-1126

Yep. 2x higher net income than AAPL.

csekseni1

AAPL earnings level theta lmfao

cdeussen

I don’t how you aren’t doing great unless you’re following this sub. I play options for get rich quick schemes that never work, but I park my longer term in NVDA, GOOGL, AMZN, and AAPL as a safe spot. I’ve pretty much doubled my money with those in the past year. If you’re new, pick some traditionally high performers while you learn, or just throw money away on options like the rest of us.

Jagged_Tide

Goodness gracious AAPL and SPY

AlanSellicka

If only AAPL would join the party... I need ATH!

Portfoliana

as a market signal, i would not chase any of these disclosures. the filing lag is long enough that the only useful read is positioning/policy overlap, not whether AAPL or GOOGL suddenly got smarter here.

LumpyShock9656

AAPL casually sitting at 36 PE lol someone tell me why that's almost 6 pts more than GOOG

Bababbouey

AAPL to 305 today

moorhound

1.) Micron/SK Hynix. NVDA's pretty much forced to pay whatever the fuck they want for HBM4 (those two plus Samsung make up 97% of production). That's it. AAPL used to be insulated, but SK told them to fuck off with their LPDDR so they could make more HBM, so they ran to Samsung too.

Elegant-Magician7322

Hmm… I don’t have $50 million, but I bought AAPL snd GOOG too. And didn’t touch TSLA. I didn’t need insider info to decide that. I just read Reddit.

imustbegthequestion

Who still believes in AAPL? It's in my nature... imustbegthequestion... 🙄