The Price Of Apple Stock Prices

There have been numerous events that affected Apple Stock. The events will be detailed below, and how much a particular event affected Apple, Inc. stock. Events that affected Apple stock could range from unveiling of a new and a promising innovative product or disappointing earnings. The following briefs important events affecting Apple stock over 1 year.

From the recent case data, ExxonMobil has not acted irresponsibility in pricing its gasoline products. Outside of the grocery industry, I have not heard of any business segments surviving on less than a 5% profit margin. In reading that ExxonMobil reported only a net profit of 8.5%3, it is difficult to state that the firm over priced its products to reap abnormal profits. Although Mr. Lee Raymond’s $400 million retirement seems grossly out of proportion in utilitarian terms, adding these funds back into the firm’s bottom line would not change the profit results. With profit margins of less than 10%, it is unlikely that ExxonMobil would be able to keep the price of gasoline fixed if sweet crude oil were to increase from $80 per barrel to $88. This 10% increase in raw material cost would have to be passed through to the customer in the form of higher prices for the firm to survive.

Long-term: Low profits cannot be maintained for so much time. In some time in the near future, Opec will have to drive the oil price up in order to regain losses.

discounted value to compete with other conventional oil producers in the market [6, 7]. The position of

Second once Apple stabilized after year 2019, the prediction of growth is 3%, and Beta was projected to be .96. Again, by using the boundaries stated above: the (Ke), weight of equity/debt, and WACC were as follow 6.34%, 80%, 20%, and 5.63%. These numbers were somewhat similar to its high growth stage; therefore, signifying Apple is still a strong company once it stabilizes. Yet, another reason why Apple can provide such attractive returns. Conversely, finding the Terminal Value (Pt) of the company, which is the value of the company at a future year, projected the PV for stable growth, in this case it was 2020. The (Pt) was over $1 billion, yet again another reason why Apple creates a great investment opportunity. Moreover, by adding all of the PV, including the stable growth year, the intrinsic value of the firm is over $966 million and minus the current value of debt, Apple is still worth (value of equity) over $926 million. This equity divided the current number of shares outstanding; Apple’s intrinsic value of stock is $988.80 per share. By comparison the current stock price, which is $649.79 per share, the stock value is undervalued. Likewise, making (AAPL) a rewarding opportunity that must not be taken for granted.

This type of scenario is improbable seeing as gas is relatively inexpensive and the world is still consuming a lot of oil and gasoline for various daily tasks such as transportation, heating homes, plastics, and generating electricity. Since the company is largely oil and gas based, and we see no future paradigm shifts for the companies market, the stock is considered safe and profitable for the coming 3 year period. ExxonMobil Corp. is selling a commodity like gasoline used by consumers across the globe. This leads its stock price to fluctuate with the price of oil and gas seen at your everyday gas station and with the price of oil per barrel. Since oil prices are a highly publicized area of the news, this allows us as speculators to see when the stock price will fall and rise making it quite readable and hence, easy to follow. The gas market is still booming and demand is high and with a constant demand for oil, ExxonMobil have a very stable portfolio and is a great stock to invest in. ExxonMobil has many shares available for sale with a market capitalization of $409.01 Billion with an estimate stock price at about $96.50/share. (Unknown, 2014).

Exxon and Chevron are no doubt some of the leading incorporated oil companies on the globe. Exxon Corp. is the second largest oil firm after Royal Dutch Shell, it is respected for getting the biggest revenue return in 2008 which no company in the U.S. have ever reported before. According to Wilson (2009) Chevron has managed to show a lot of profitability in the market despite the decease in its oil production. It graded as one of firms which made a billion dollars profit within a week in the period of July to September 2008. Regardless of profitability trends set by the two oil firms in the U.S. market, they have been facing financial decline like the rest of the companies in other industries. The two firms are like two sailing ships which are taking longer time to sink. In the last few years, the production capacity of Chevron and Exxon has decreased and their listings on the stock market have become weak. The continuation of construction and drilling which requires billions of dollars in expense of oil production might make them experience a bigger financial crisis (Wilson, 2009).

Our group decided to analyse the company Apple Inc., listed on Nasdaq Market as AAPL. The analysis was mainly based on the annual financial report of the company for the fiscal year ended on September 29th 2007. Apple Inc. is today one of the most

Understanding the key ratios of a company is very important for investors. Each ratio uncovers the inner workings of the company, and may lead an investor to make a decision on whether to invest in the company, or to continue looking elsewhere. Exxon Mobil and Chevron are both in the same industry, and are virtually household names. In this study, key ratios of these two companies will be analyzed, and a comparison of results will be provided.

Apple, Inc. currently has a Price-to-Earnings ratio of 43.70, compared to the industry standard of 36.50, and the S&P 500 average of 20.73. This indicates that Apple has a lower amount of risk than other firms in the computer manufacturing industry and other firms in

The first case that we are going to talk about is an American company from Texas called Chevron. Chevron is an oil company that had started to drill for oil in South America, while this company was in South America; they developed very poor environmental skills (ChevronToxico, 2014). While chevron was in Ecuador they used cost cutting techniques, and under developed technology (ChevronToxico, 2014). These cost cutting techniques that chevron had used only saved the company 3 dollars a barrel of oil, but allowed them to dump waste and leave toxic waste pits all over the rain forest(ChevronToxico, 2014). By the time Chevron had been done drilling for oil and left the forest they had left more than 1000

In April of 2008, Governors from several states called on the White House, the Energy and Justice Departments to begin an investigation into insider trading, illegal price fixing and speculator manipulation. This included collusion within the oil companies. Amazingly, by November 24, 2008, a gallon of gas was $1.71 a gallon. Everyone was so relieved of the incredible price drop, no one bothered to ask the oil companies how it was possible that gas could drop $2.87 a gallon in five months when it took 21 months to increase $2.30. I suppose we will never know. I suppose I would not fret if I was one who had a lot of stock in any oil company.

It has been documented that a change in crude oil prices can lead to an economic depression, which could in turn weaken asset prices. Weaker asset prices will lead to devaluation in a company, which will lead to a

All of the company 's revenue is generated from drilling wells. If something goes wrong, such as the wells tapping out, then revenue will decrease rapidly and the company will have no other source of income. Another threat with this industry is environmental awareness. In most countries, there are laws to protect the environment. These laws and regulations, if implemented in the United States, could create a threat for Cimarex, and companies like Cimarex, by restricting or placing an environmental tax on the production of oil and gas.

The price of natural gas and oil have fluctuated widely because of some factors without Total control, these factor are: Supply and demand for global regional and economic and political development in the global and regional resources producing regions, especially In the Middle East, Africa and South America also the ability of OPEC and producing countries to control and influence the level of production and prices and other thing which is effect on the price which is the cost and availability of new technology also the price of non-conventional energy and economic condition and the global financial market and the last one is changes in demographics, including population growth rate, and consumer preferences. Significant reductions in prices or extend the oil and natural gas, which would adversely affect the results reducing their profit for the year 2014.