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AAPL shares smash through $300 barrier (updated)

Summary: If you're an Apple shareholder, there are plenty of reasons to happy -- especially now that AAPL shares have topped $300 per share on the NASDAQ. Forum chatter indicates that AAPL could make a run for $325.

Jason D. O'Grady

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If you're an Apple shareholder, there are plenty of reasons to happy -- especially now that AAPL shares have topped $300 per share on the NASDAQ. Forum chatter indicates that AAPL could make a run for $325. Shades of Google, anyone?

With today's new 52 week high, here's the top five tech companies by market cap:

  1. AAPL -- Apple Inc. -- $275.90B
  2. MSFT -- Microsoft Corporation -- $217.38B
  3. IBM -- International Business Machines -- $177.75B
  4. GOOG -- Google Inc. -- $173.18B
  5. INTC -- Intel Corporation -- $107.96B

Update 1: $302

Update 2: If you're an AAPL investor, you can keep track of your investment with TickerMenu 2.0 ($9), a small menu bar item that tracks AAPL stock price in a tidy interface.

Apple Stock holders: now that AAPL has broken $300 per share, what are you going to do?

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  • Soon, MS will be the number 4 tech company behind Apple, Google, IBM.

    Windows and Office are at the start of a long downhill slide.
    DonnieBoy
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    • RE: AAPL shares smash through $300 barrier

      @DonnieBoy Give me a call when OSX and iWorks are at 95% marketshare.
      Stark_Industries
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      • Actually, why don't you give me a call when Microsoft investors are as

        happy as Apple investors. The slide has already started, and there are few with money to plunk down that will bet on Microsoft right now.
        DonnieBoy
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      • RE: AAPL shares smash through $300 barrier

        @Stark_Industries - I don't care about marketshare. I care about making money. Apple does that. Microsoft has not moved for over 10 years. MS is a dead investment.
        The Danger is Microsoft
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    • How's that?

      DonnieBoy, Windows 7 is a sales success, and Office use has shown no signs of diminishing, so how is people investing in Apple related to Microsoft's [i]continued sucsessful sales[/i] of Windows and Office, an d indication of a long downhill slide?

      Oh that's right, you're trying to fool yourself into believing it's true. ;)

      And that sad part is, many here own Apple, MS, and Google stock, yet my guess is you own none.

      Why not deal with the fact that MS/Windows/Office, ect will be here to stay, and actually try investing in these companies that you like to talk about?
      John Zern
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      • Look at stock prices for Microsoft, Apple, and Google for the last 10 years

        Then look at the outlook and why analysts are down on Microsoft, but very positive about Apple and Google.
        DonnieBoy
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      • Everything dies...

        @John Zern "Why not deal with the fact that MS/Windows/Office, ect will be here to stay..."

        I've been an MS Office for Mac user for years but lately it seems to be just an expensive habit. I'm now discovering that iWork and iLife have all the apps I need in Office but are cheaper, easier to use, and include ones, like iMovie and iTunes, lacking in the Office suite.

        Digital applications are like sharks: they must keep moving or they die. I've seen a number of popular ones become obsolete along with the companies that produced them.

        It may be a long slow death with so many users supporting them, but the Office apps are not immortal if only because they can easily and cheaply be replaced.
        godsfault
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  • More proof that Apple is the best tech company around

    Looking at the chart, the nearest tech company is not even close and that's because MS dont innovate and Google copies/steals from Apple (that is when their creepy engineers are not stealing your teenage dauthers personal data).
    iPad-awan
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    • Google has copied nothing from Apple, until recently, they did not even

      compete with each other. Most of what Apple does is take previous ideas and make them a reality. Give Apple credit for great design and engineering, but, to say that others are copying Apple is a real stretch.
      DonnieBoy
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      • wake up

        @DonnieBoy
        wake up. android is a weak, patent infringing copy of iOS. pre iphone android builds were copies of the blackberry of that time, when the iphone came out they changed it to an iphone copy.
        http://www.zdnet.com/blog/ip-telephony/two-photos-here-of-a-very-early-google-android-prototype/3197
        banned from zdnet
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      • Still, Apple did NOT invent touch screen devices, nor multi-touch, nor cell

        phones, nor Arm system-on-a-chip designs.<br><br>Manufacturers using a similar form factor to the popular iPhone is not exactly "coping".<br><br>And, yes, there are patent trolls out there. Google and manufacturers will deal with them. So what?????
        DonnieBoy
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      • iPad-awan, you made the mistake

        of disrespecting our resident "Google is the greatest company in the history of the world" cheerleader, DonnieBoy.

        Now you're on his "hit" list ;)
        John Zern
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      • What about that engineer at Google stalking those teenage girls

        DonnieBoy? Hasn't your argument allways been that it's better for a company to host with Google then in house, because Google's employees can be trusted more then the ones in those companies?

        That Google's employees would never misuse the data stored on their servers?
        John Zern
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      • RE: AAPL shares smash through $300 barrier

        All,

        Give it up boys. This is TECHNOLOGY. There isn't a single idea out there that hasn't been built upon another. Give the who copied who debate a rest.
        bmonsterman
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    • Stocks don't actually relty on how good a company is doing

      But how good people expect them to do. That's why Apple and Google do good while Microsoft doesn't. They're both good at making themselves look like good. Also, if we're going by that logic, then Google is way better than any other Tech Company.

      Copy or not, your logic says Apple is an inferior company to Google.
      Michael Alan Goff
      Reply Vote

  • yep

    bought 1000 at $55.
    banned from zdnet
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    • RE: AAPL shares smash through $300 barrier

      @banned from zdnet - bought 1500 at @ 89.00 - Still making the bucks on my bet against MS.
      The Danger is Microsoft
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      • I'm making money from both

        MS and Apple. Google was a bit too pricey for me, to tell the truth, so nothing there.
        John Zern
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      • RE: AAPL shares smash through $300 barrier

        @The Danger is Microsoft

        I've always said.. it's better to own Apple stock than Apple products. Save money on tech gear, and make money in the market. It's a two-fer!
        Badgered
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  • RE: AAPL shares smash through $300 barrier

    What goes up invariably comes down.

    Ask Cisco about that...
    Stark_Industries
    Reply Vote
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