Apple Inc (AAPL)

(Market Call Minute.) Have a lot of cash so it is safe. She is waiting to see what the next product line is going to be.

(A Top Pick March 2/12. Down 15.62%.) Has clearly changed from a momentum stock, even though the valuation never approached dangerous levels. Feels a little bit of momentum is coming back. Earnings growth has flattened out in the last couple of quarters but doesn’t think it’s going to stay that way forever. Trading at only 10X earnings. Could see it moving into the mid-to high $500’s this year.

Has just started purchasing this. At these levels, the cash flow yield is over 10%. PE multiple is below 10 times. A third of its market cap is in cash. Generates about $20 billion in cash each quarter. He knows that at these levels there is a catalyst in place to have to return cash to shareholders. It could be through a much larger dividend or a very large buyback.

We are not ready to get into Apple. They made an announcement they would bump the dividend. Sees 3-5% correction in equity markets so use that as an entry point for Apple. One more lower low and then you can nibble.

It has 10%-11% projected earnings growth according to some analysts. PE of 9.8%, which is ridiculous. Very cheap.

Sometimes stocks become so over owned that when technically they start to sell off, they become a source of funds for other types of investments. Samsung seems to really be attacking this company. Innovations have been less than exciting. To compete they are going to have to either innovate, which will impact their margins, or will have to compete on price, which will also impact their margins. (He is Short this stock.)

It should hold at the current level. If it breaks down through $430, it’ll probably go down a bit further, high $380’s-$390’s. If you believe in this on a long-term fundamental basis, it will have a lot of grinding through those places where people paid much more and are trying to get their money back. There are better stocks in this space.

At this price, it is a steal of a deal. Pick up cash and is trading at 6.5X earnings. Dividend yield is attractive. Something has to be done about their cash balance and hopefully they will announce something at tomorrow’s annual meeting

(Top Pick Jul 6/12, Down 24.44% Total Return) Incredible value. It is so cheap. But earnings could be problematic over the next couple of quarters. She has been selling at higher prices.

It is pretty compelling at this point. Valuations are pretty compelling. Issues are size of company and they reinvented part of the tech space and now what are the next steps. Prefers Qualcom because they make the innards of the handsets.

As a value investor, he thinks this is going to make something over $40 this year. It has $150 a share in cash. Take off the cash and you are getting $40 of earnings for $300, which is 7X earnings for one of the great companies in the history of the world. He is assuming a major share buyback will be announced at the annual meeting as well as an increased dividend. Yield of 2.3%.

Fairly predictable. Found support in $450 area. Trend is negative and not a lot supporting it long term. He would not be buying it here. He would take a look at it at $400.

Has been surprised at the magnitude of the drop in price. This was a positive high momentum company on the upside and has flipped around to a negative momentum. Fundamentally, not a lot has changed. By the end of their fiscal year, he thinks they will have about $175 a share in cash. Trading at about 5.5X ex-cash. Extremely cheap but right now the market is not carrying about fundamentals.

Now that the stock has retreated back to around $442, he is looking at this closely. Very concerned about the next couple of quarters which are going to be a little bit shaky because of margin pressure. They need a refresh of the product. Apple 5 is good but is not selling outside of North America as well as people had hoped. 75% of the profits in the industry. Has the ability to layer on the big base of new products that will rejuvenate it.

Just under 2% of outstanding shares being shorted. This is probably incidental. It broke a 2-year trend line. As a bell weather there may be a changing of the guard. It could bounce back up to the trend line and then come back real quick. But it could take a lot of time to work through this.