AAPL

postulate4

Nobody is suggesting that NVDA is going to collapse without Jensen. The concern is not with NVDA staying solvent. The concern is how NVDA will grow and expand now that their principal founder is out. There's no guarantee NVDA will follow up like AAPL. They could very well end up like Intel or Boeing.

Defiant-Fee-7550

About to splurge on a $3k MacBook Pro Oled with my $1.3 million in AAPL LT gains. OF about to be on another level :dance:

verified-trader

**BanBet Lost** — /u/justlosinmoney (6W - 11L, 35%) | Ticker | Entry → Target | Move | Time | Result | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | **AAPL** ▲ | $342.26 → $380.00 | +11.0% | 1w | Lost |

mr_birkenblatt

Last time I checked AAPL was part of SPY

Mahadragon

The concern with AAPL has been a lack of innovation. There's no guarantee smart phones will be all the rage going forward or that competitors might catch up. All it takes is one piece of tech to replace it overnight. Ternus is not known as a guy with a Steve Jobs-like track record of innovative ideas.

EdwardCorona

With Friday expiry you're holding a short fuse. Your $352.50 calls are about $4.50 in the money with AAPL around $357, so a good chunk of what you're holding is intrinsic value that disappears fast if it slides back through the strike. I'd pick the number I'm happy with and the price where the trade is wrong before the open, not mid-candle. Selling half and letting the rest ride is a legit way to do it, and you're never wrong banking a profit.

EdwardCorona

With Friday expiry you're holding a short fuse. Your $352.50 calls are about $4.50 in the money with AAPL around $357, so a good chunk of what you're holding is intrinsic value that disappears fast if it slides back through the strike. I'd pick the number I'm happy with and the price where the trade is wrong before the open, not mid-candle. Selling half and letting the rest ride is a legit way to do it, and you're never wrong banking a profit.

financiallythriving

AAPL -20% tomorrow

Nomad-2002

I have some shares @178 (got some today @151). It's a gamble, so I only invested 1% of net worth in NVDA. Mostly I hold SPY/VXUS/BrokeredCDs. Only 8% in individual stocks. Prices looked good, so I recently bought SPCX, NVDA, GOOG, META, AAPL. Should have bought AMZN, MU, INTC, AMD.

potato111a

Anddd my AAPL calls got stopped :(

UnObtainium17

I'm feeling chest pains just being reminded of selling AAPL and AMD last year at a huge gains.

wwb_99

AAPL barely survived without Jobs -- they were a week or so away from not making payroll when they brought him back and secured a lifeline from Microsoft. Now, I think NVIDIA is much stronger now than Apple was when Jobs was ousted, and there is probably some real talent on the bench that could step in. The scenario is not quite handing a floundering apple to a soft drink guy who does not know computers.

Key-Plant-6672

Well, AAPL had its biggest moves under Cook, after Jobs was gone, sadly..

Germfreecandy

AAPL and NVDA merger

vermilli21

AAPL does nothing is it just goes up everyday, but as soon as I buy calls it will probably have its worst day ever

Swiftnice

I can't believe AAPL is over 5T lol

EasyAstronomer3224

Since AAPL AI was so great, let him ruin NVDA AI

jlw993

NVDA - 3.9T MC. Revenue 108 Bill 60 Bill Net Income AAPL - 5.2T MC. Revenue 115 Bill 31 Bill Net Income Is that correct ?

greenpride32

Unlike TSLA and SPCX, where some crowd believes there is a "CEO premium" attached the valuation, NVDA is actually one of the most profitable companies in the world. They got there because they have a wide and deep moat on what has essentially become a critical component. Jensen or not, that moat does not change. Take your tech giants, AAPL AMZN GOOGL MSFT CEO's have all changed. Take your several decades to over hundred year old blue chip companies - of course their CEO's would have changed out of necessity. Businesses still running and growing? Check.

jlw993

NVDA - 3.9T MC. Revenue 108 Bill 60 Bill Net Income AAPL - 5.2T MC. Revenue 115 Bill 31 Bill Net Income Is that correct ?

jlw993

NVDA - 3.9T MC. Revenue 108 Bill 60 Bill Net Income AAPL - 5.2T MC. Revenue 115 Bill 31 Bill Net Income Is that right correct ?

Jake777_Agar

Who is even buying AAPL right now it’s actually insane

jlw993

NVDA - 3.9T MC. Revenue 108 Bill 60 Bill Net Income AAPL - 5.2T MC. Revenue 115 Bill 31 Bill Net Income Is that correct ?

Necessary-Lie8487

AAPL what was that giant red stick.

ConclusionEven6917

Completely agree that AMD might now be able to take some share from NVDA. The problem is that data center buildout will slow so total market that AMD can get will just get smaller. More importantly, there is some fear the circularity situation get unwinded now that the lead guy is no longer there to control it. There's a reason AMZN, MSFT, and even AAPL are at ATH, people are scared of the market and just want to park their money in the big boys especially for MSF and AMZN where they now expect less spending from them given delays on buildout. Feels to me that the market is just creating a short term cover on the semi trade so people don't panic sell general AI in anticipating fror the ANT IPO

financiallythriving

AAPL 400 tomorrow

Blyadhole

AAPL: Rip turtle neck, hello 1 trillion NVDA: Rip leather jacket, hello 10 trillion mcap

financiallythriving

**AAPL hit another ATH today by the way**

financiallythriving

No matter what happens, AAPL will always be green

niwmo

While NVDA is 💩 the bed, AAPL is carrying QQQ.

Rav_3d

When Steve Jobs was forced out the first time, AAPL went into the toilet. Not suggesting the same will happen with Nvidia, just pointing out that Jobs left twice, and the second time was due to his health, not because he had affairs with spies.

OutcomeDirect

Can anyone explain why AAPL out of all stocks is dropping right now? LOLL

OutcomeDirect

Why TF is AAPL dropping LOL? What the actual hell

greenpride32

When I buy individual stocks, I'm primarily focused on the financials, and whether those financials can persist and grow into the future. Everything else is just noise. I don't expect there to be any impact to CUDA platform based on what has transpired so their sales will continue into the future. Look at AAPL and Steve Jobs. Jobs had a health issue and had to abruptly leave the company. Did anyone think iPhone sales were going to plummet because he was leaving? In the case of Jensen, it's obviously a different and embarrassing scenario. Yet peel away the noise and it's just CEO abruptly leaving again. The biggest outstanding issue I think is whether Jensen and NVDA were complicit in getting chips to China. Meaning they would have had to known MegaSpeed was only buying the chips with intent to re-route to China, and Jensen and NVDA still agreed to the sale. But there are literally datacenters all over the world buying AI GPU's; NVDA responsiblity isn't to police what those companies do after the fact. As long as NDVA is selling within export compliance they've done their part. If Jensen is found complicit well he's already the fall guy and out. Perhaps some smaller fine to NVDA. If NVDA (as in a circle larger than just Jensen) is found complicit, it will likely be a more substantial fine. But ultimately in these worst case scenarios, does it even break CUDA's stronghold? I don't think so.

Jay_spelt_with_an_X

AAPL

financiallythriving

Okay now that NVDA is imploding, what would it take for AAPL to implode?

Rexultdis

Has AAPL had a controversy even 50% this size? Genuinely asking

greenpride32

From OP post: > because its hardware and ecosystem were too dominant to fail. Does a struggling company's stock go up in value? No. The point is a company with a strong product remains strong. AAPL was a failure that almost went out of business, and struggled quite a bit before iPod and iPhone took off. When the company was down in the dumps, it wouldn't matter who the CEO was, it had no financial performance to warrant any valuation premium. Wow just wow...

TurbodToilet

AAPL calls as usual

eggplantpot

Don't even ask the question. The answer is yes, it's priced in. Think Amazon will beat the next earnings? That's already been priced in. You work at the drive thru for Mickey D's and found out that the burgers are made of human meat? Priced in. You think insiders don't already know that? The market is an all powerful, all encompassing being that knows the very inner workings of your subconscious before you were even born. Your very existence was priced in decades ago when the market was valuing Standard Oil's expected future earnings based on population growth that would lead to your birth, what age you would get a car, how many times you would drive your car every week, how many times you take the bus/train, etc. Anything you can think of has already been priced in, even the things you aren't thinking of. You have no original thoughts. Your consciousness is just an illusion, a product of the omniscent market. Free will is a myth. The market sees all, knows all and will be there from the beginning of time until the end of the universe (the market has already priced in the heat death of the universe). So please, before you make a post on wsb asking whether AAPL has priced in earpods 11 sales or whatever, know that it has already been priced in and don't ask such a dumb fucking question again.

Czerny740

How did AAPL do after Jobs left?

vermilli21

AAPL calls and NVDA puts at open

TurbodToilet

AAPL +3% day

greenpride32

How is that part of AAPL's history relevant to the discussion point? OP's point is after a company has established a dominant moat product it can change leadership and continue to sell dominant moat product. AAPL has gone up some 45-60x since iPhone debuted. That was already after running up prior few years due to iPod. But prior to have a dominant product, they struggled mightily, even firing Jobs before rehiring him. The breadwinner for AMZN is AWS. AWS was headed by Andy Jassey who is now CEO after Bezos. Is AMZN "damaged" in any way because Bezos left? Ian Buck headed CUDA platform which is essentially the moat for NVDA. If an internal candidate emerges it would very well be Buck.

FunkyMcSkunky

I looked at GOOG, META, AAPL, and TSLA. They all have fewer trades in the past few quarters.

financiallythriving

Give me an AAPL -3% day and I’ll stick a watermelon up my ass

financiallythriving

So basically AAPL only goes up regardless of macro therefore you should buy

BuyMeaSalad

I can’t find a dead decade on the AAPL chart? When exactly was that? All I see is like 2011-2013 between two specific dates it went from 14 up to 20s then back down to 14. Then after that, it’s basically consistently green?

financiallythriving

AAPL is too strong, the market will never crash

spudbro00

AAPL always fucking green makes me want to rip my hair out

financiallythriving

All of MAG7 red except the king, AAPL

financiallythriving

Everyone, rotate into AAPL. It’s the only safe haven

Necessary-Lie8487

AAPL what r you doing with this movement

financiallythriving

AAPL

Sad_Reply9012

AAPL going to 50 PÉ at this rate

financiallythriving

When is AAPL going to break out

OutcomeDirect

Welp guess it’s time to load up on AAPL

kvndoom

if I had put all my money into SCHD, KO, and AAPL in January and never looked at it, I'd be green as fuck instead of thinking about doing doordash on the side again.

Jake777_Agar

Shorting AAPL is the most excruciating thing in the market

financiallythriving

AAPL, the golden child, will save the markets

Total_Mirror_9266

It looks like AAPL will make new a new all time higher price as it appears to be attracting NVDA investors.

Ok-Toe-5124

Apple (ticker AAPL) is relentless and Im buying puts today

Orthoebolavirus

As a RDDT shareholder I'd do a 1 for 1 share swap merger with AMZN or AAPL Not picky

Hussle_Crowe

So glad I sold AAPL when Steve Jobs died so I didn’t have to make….4,000% since then. Dodged a bullet 🙏

victoryposition

Itll be the CFO or COO. No way an outsider. Theyll use the AAPL playbook.

MakingMoneyIsMe

Jobs was a CEO and a visionary, yet AAPL has gained close to 3000% since his death.

A-Money-Lover

Don't even ask the question. The answer is yes, it's priced in. Think Amazon will beat the next earnings? That's already been priced in. You work at the drive thru for Mickey D's and found out that the burgers are made of human meat? Priced in. You think insiders don't already know that? The market is an all powerful, all encompassing being that knows the very inner workings of your subconscious before you were even born. Your very existence was priced in decades ago when the market was valuing Standard Oil's expected future earnings based on population growth that would lead to your birth, what age you would get a car, how many times you would drive your car every week, how many times you take the bus/train, etc. Anything you can think of has already been priced in, even the things you aren't thinking of. You have no original thoughts. Your consciousness is just an illusion, a product of the omniscent market. Free will is a myth. The market sees all, knows all and will be there from the beginning of time until the end of the universe (the market has already priced in the heat death of the universe). So please, before you make a post on wsb asking whether AAPL has priced in earpods 11 sales or whatever, know that it has already been priced in and don't ask such a dumb fucking question again.

Frequent_Ad7351

NVDA will never overtake AAPL anymore

Competitive-Elk9326

Tim Apple left so $AAPL doesnt drop when Jensen affair 3 drops 👀

nsfw-boston

Let's look at the ingredients here: 1. The second largest publicly traded company in the US (after AAPL), and one of the largest in the world. 2. The leaders in GPU within the ever growing AI disruptive technological wave that will change the world as we know it 3. the US blocking sales of GPUs to China 4. China is competing with the US for techno-economic egemony * Do we think that China has nothing to do with the scandal? What if China sent a few *attractive women* till one succeeded. And then China itself planted the seed that she was a spy? Easier than sending actual spies and has the same effect. * Do we think that this is it? There's A LOT more that we don't know.

Rexultdis

401k’s around the world wishing they full ported AAPL. Or they did and will tell you they invested your $ in NVDA

_Kenway

NVDA p/e 20 AAPL p/e 40 the second one has flat EPS growth nothing to add if you are smart enough to understand

smithy-

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tsunamiwaves_

If you told me AAPL would be the best performing MAG this year , I would’ve laughed at you but here we are

Necessary-Lie8487

Quick everyone take refuge in AAPL so my calls pump more

Defiant-Fee-7550

AAPL will buy NVDA once it becomes a penny stock :hug:

juicenx

Replace AAPL with GOOGL

vermilli21

https://preview.redd.it/1stm70mcz11i1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b6b9d924f48b703ec6cd565b8e96f2c5b4b5ccda What happened here on AAPL?

Flat-Focus7966

Which one of you bought META calls & AAPL puts.... don't be shy

big-baller-47

AAPL ripping non stop

greenpride32

There is drama no doubt. But from investment standpoint, the real question is what is the largest potential material impact to NVDA? NVDA could potentially face some fines, IF they are found guilty of wrongdoing. Given the relatively small size of sales to MegaSpeed, I would imagine the cap on such fines is quite low. It would be a different story if NVDA were to lose 25-30% of revenue due to export ban, and magically somehow 25-30% of revenue went to MegaSpeed and perhaps others, and found it's way to China. With or without Jensen, CUDA isn't going away. I commented in different thread that AAPL/AMZN/MSFT all went on to grow even larger without Jobs, Bezos and Gates. Everyone is replaceable. But CUDA is not immeidately replaceable. Which means NVDA revenue and profit are not taking a hit. It's not as if it's some accounting or consulting firm, and well you don't like the character of the leadership, you'll just acquire equivlent service elsewhere. AI was developed on CUDA platform over past decade. Replacing it now means many steps back before you get to move forward.

Jake777_Agar

I saw the dump coming but I'm shorting the one thing that does nothing but go up, AAPL, LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

2020isgreat

no on can understand why "people" buy AAPL shares instead of their bonds

TurbodToilet

I hope AAPL goes to hell

Madrid_Fan

AAPL calls shits invincible

TurbodToilet

How is it possible that AAPL does nothing but fucking go up every single god damn day

Madrid_Fan

AAPL calls

Madrid_Fan

AAPL just goes up and up

suifuto-senpai

AAPL 355Cs

Jake777_Agar

AAPL's only purpose as a stock now is to destroy puts

Jake777_Agar

Welp I paper handed for only a 50% gain in one day... God damn it! Now I'm shorting trash AAPL to make myself feel better.

The_Albertino

AAPL and NVDA calls printing nicely

potato111a

About to buy a second iPhone Duo with these AAPL 350C LMAO 🤌

The_Albertino

Thank you AAPL for the morning pump, can we see a breakout to 370?

captjacksparrow47

Reddit told me that AAPL is a shit stock. Glad I didn't listen.

MajorLack

Oh no, you didn’t bet against AAPL did you? I’m sorry you lost your way, friend, hopefully you don’t make that mistake again.

Fikib26

AAPL stock is shit

TurbodToilet

AAPL can go to fucking he’ll

Grand_Insurance_1573

AAPL just goes off on its own fucking quests sometimes

Worth-Promotion601

AAPL just accept the rejection amd go down to 300