Apple share price dropped 10 percent today after its revenues came up short of analyst estimates and sales of its macs and iPhones were not what Wall street expected. Still, Apple sold 47.8 million iPhones, a record, and 22.9 million iPads. The company also projected a softer-than-expected revenue range of $41 billion to $43 billion for its current quarter, below the more than $45 billion expected by analysts.
I just do not understand people who invest in the stock market, even in a company trading at over $500 per share! You have to be very rich to invest in Apple at that share price, and the assumption, apparently wrong, is that rich people are smart. Or perhaps, can think logically is more like it.
I may be the stupid one, but I would think that if a company sells more iPhones than it ever did before, setting a new record, and sells $43 BILLON, yes that is with 12 zeros, $43,000,000,000 that just can’t be bad enough to instigate a mass selloff and drop the stock price by 10%.
Yet somehow investors in the stock market, big funds and small investors, all felt it was a terrible thing that some analysts, which are just some guys who do not work for the company but simply take a best guess at what they think the sales will be, were wrong.
This happens constantly with stocks on the market. The analysts expect something and then the company does not meet that estimate, even though it still is growing, the price of the shares drop. It is just not fair to the company.
It should be the analysts who people loose confidence in, not the company that makes more sales than they ever did before.
If there were no analysts to make their estimates which are often far from what the company actually did, even if that was much better than last quarter, the stock market, and the economy in general, would be far more stable.
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Just like our programmed thinking based on past learned traumatic experiences, current economic decisions and actions are not based on the reality or rationality of the present but a programmed agenda of the past. The real reasons and rational for what we are doing in the present is obscured by the real hidden programmed survival agenda and motivation learned and programmed from our past experiences. Just as we lie and deceive ourselves of our motivation for our action so too does the economic policies and stock market manipulations deceive the public. It is only the perception of what is happening that is important, not what is really happening.
You have said the most important key to becoming emotionally free and mentally balanced; ” It is only the perception of what is happening that is important, not what is really happening.”