Apple Inc (AAPL)

Couldn’t resist using this as a Top Pick with the price in the $112 area. Stock sold off because of fears of China and their exposure, which is not insignificant. CEO commented this week that they are expanding iPhone sales in China. The Apple App Store in China had its best 2 weeks ever. All those concerns of China may be a little bit overblown. Stock is trading at 11.5X earnings and still the dominant player on the smart phone. IPhone revenues are expected to increase again this quarter. Dividend yield of 1.84%.

(A Top Pick Sept 16/14. Up 14.24%.) Sold half of his holdings when it reached $128. This is a fantastic company. It’s the ecosystem they have developed. The durability of being able to develop technology solutions that make their customers want to be customers for long, long periods of time.

Valuation is barely over 10X earnings. $202 billion of cash on a $635 billion market cap. 89% of that cash is offshore and hard to access, but this is a company that is just a cash machine and doing extremely well. The street forever wants to find a fault, and this month it is China. Their growth in China is dramatic, $13 billion last quarter, up 100% year-over-year, but people are worried. He thinks that in 5 years the iWatch will have proven to be so much more revolutionary than the iPhone, iPad or the iPod. It is not a watch, it is a sensory device. It is going to change our lives. Dividend yield of 1.9%.

This has been the market leader over the past few years. The long upward trend line running from 2013 has been broken. The successively equal or lower peaks earlier this year, could be considered as a bit of a topping action. Don’t catch a falling knife. When it stops declining, this will put in a base. Let it find a floor and don’t try to predict where the floor is.

This has broken some key levels. The next place where he would see some support come in would be around $94. Did some analysis today and saw some longer targets coming in at around $75.

Doesn't believe in averaging down. Last quarter there were a few issues that people were quick to flag. The company is producing and the cash hoard is staggering. They are putting up 30% growth numbers. There are fundamental reasons to be there, but doesn't recommend adding to it.

They have grown earnings as much as the share price has gone up. That is why, even after the run it has had since 2011, it is trading at only 13X earnings. Have lots of cash on hand. Stock is down 9%-10% over the last month because he thinks the market was expecting miracles for the iWatch. Dividend yield of 1.81% and are well positioned to grow it.

(Market Call Minute) He cut his position in half. Financial metrics are strong, but he takes the price signal which is underperforming and carves back his stake.

This is a really tough story. Feels it is one of those things that can go both ways. She tries to stay away from the really tough calls. Unless there is a really good reason for it to do better than not, then she stays away. Consumer preferences change so quickly, and it is hard to get ahead of the trends. Valuation is fine, but they hadn’t met expectations on their iPhone sales.

She exited because she did not see a lot of innovation coming out of it. There is only replacement demand for their phones. The earnings will still grow, but not as much. It is a mature company now. There are a lot of lower price products to compete with them.

He lightened a bit last year when it ran up. He believes in the story long term. They don’t have as much of a recurring revenue model as he would like. The value is in the brand name. iTunes shows how they are moving to more of a service model. He is buying it in here, however.

If a stock is above the 200 day and it is rising, the trend is up. It is below then the trend is down. APPL-O had three growth periods. ’06 to ’08 then ’09 until ’12 and then ’13 to just before it collapsed. He thinks the growth is over. The easy money has been picked.

It is a 15% better buy today than it was a few months ago. Has suffered a mini correction. It has a long history of going up and then going down, and then going back up again. He thinks a lot of the company. They had an excellent last quarter. It has tremendous potential of products coming down the road. They don't need to have a hit on every product. He thinks it is a veryimpressive company. At $115 it is a very reasonable buy.

Just reported quarterly results and the stock dropped. Has been wrong on this for years and had thought the tide would turn a lot earlier. Technology is a very, very difficult sphere. With many companies, what appears to be leading-edge technology, after while is no longer. He has been waiting for when this company starts to have some difficulty with their technology perhaps, and saturates the marketplace. At some point he thinks it could really get hammered. They are clear leaders in their field. Have taken on debt, and when you have as much money as they do, why do that? He would be wary of buying this.

(A Top Pick July 10/14. Up 29.1%.) Took some money off the table when it got up to the high $122’s. They are selling more of their iPhones, their market share is going up, and selling more Mac’s in a declining PC environment. Once they get people to buy an iPhone, they will buy another one. Trading at a very good valuation level. Have lots of cash.