Investing in APPLE (AAPL) to Profit From AI Machine Learning Stocks

By: Nadeem_Walayat

Where to invest to profit from the exponential machine intelligence mega-trend. I have ranked these stocks in in terms of risk vs reward and volatility. Do remember that when investing in the stock market that your capital is at risk. There are NO SURE BETS!

If you've not already done so then watch my following video from November 2016 which illustrates why everything will start to change exponentially by 2021.

Machine Intelligence has become a broad church that has fragmented or branched off into a myriad of sectors and the number keeps expanding every year. Many years ago I broke the machine intelligence mega-trend down into 9 key sectors that I have now further fragmented into 10 by basically adding Cyber Security as the following list illustrates, the 10 key machine mega-trend sectors to invest in.

For a primer on how to invest in AI Stocks then see my following recent video:

Top 10 AI Stocks

The stocks are ranked in order of priority. Also to further break down the list, I consider the first 5 stocks as PRIMARY i.e. the most important. The next 3 as of SECONDARY importance and finally 2 far more risky TERTIARY stocks.

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5. APPLE - AAPL

The Apple stock price only really came alive after the financial crisis with its series of pocket super computers, the Iphone's! Since which time it's been off to the races, for those who bought Apple stock during 2009 will today be sitting on a TEN fold increase BEFORE dividends, which illustrates just how far Apple has come from a company that was a small computer / gadgets company on the brink of collapse or being swallowed up by a larger corporation. In fact Apple was saved by Microsoft during the late 1990's from the brink of bankruptcy with a £150 million investment which Microsoft sold before the Apple stock price took off.

Apple under Steve Jobs successfully reinvented itself as a highly successful pocket super computer corporation even if personally I think the iPhone's on a price performance basis are inferior to for instance the Samsung galaxy range.

Apple Financials

Apple appears to be loaded with a lot of debt despite having a large cash mountain. Net income is good, as is the PE ratio, whilst sales growth has been slowing which means that Apple may be heading for a rough patch, a case of battening down its hatches for a year or so. On the flip side Apple does pay a small dividend that tends to increase most years.

Trend - The Apple stock price tracks the S&P quite closely in terms of trend. Recent price action has been one of under performance which is reflective of the general nature of the overly saturated smartphone's market which is likely to persist. The stock is volatile having fallen 40% from its 2018 high of $230 to a low of $140 before recovering to $190. So do expect greater volatility when investing in Apple.

Long-term Investing - Even after it's recent sell off Apple is up a 73% over the past 3 years. And as I mentioned earlier up 10 fold over the past 10 years. So definitely worth investing for the long-run if one can stomach the volatility.

Conclusion - Apple is is definitely another good AI machine intelligence mega-trend investing stock to hold as long as one is prepared for a potential roller coaster ride that could see gaps of as much as 40% between peaks and troughs as we have witnessed over the past few months.

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