6:49 PM 77% of growth funds studied in Bernstein's Dec. analysis of 800 mutual funds owned shares of Apple (AAPL -3.6%), down from 82% in a Dec. 2011. Moreover, their average position relative to Apple's Russell 1000 weight had fallen markedly. However, Apple's penetration of value funds rose to 40% from 29% over this time, though its average weight remains only 0.4x that of its S&P 500 weight. Bernstein's conclusion: Apple needs to reel in more value investors by hiking its dividend - the current yield is 2.1%. (order cut reports: I, II) (previous) Read comments
Focus Articles on AAPL
- Apple: 7 Reasons Shorts Can't Sleep At Night by Jason Schwarz
- Apple iPhone 5 Production Cut: Signaling A New Product Release? by Bill Shamblin
- Apple And IT: Tread Carefully by Stock Traders Daily
Press Releases on AAPL
- Apple Sells Three Million iPads in Three Days (Business Wire)
- Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results (Business Wire)
- Apple Introduces iPad mini (Business Wire)
Related Articles on AAPL
- Something Is Definitely Broken With The Market by Paulo Santos
- VIX - Options Volatility Sonar: Monday Recap by Erick McKitterick
- Is Apple The Old Facebook And Facebook The New Apple? by Bespoke Investment Group
StockTalk on AAPL: AAPL StockTalk | Twitter AAPL | Twitter $AAPL | AAPL Instablogs
Recent Market Alerts on AAPL: All currents | Earnings | Dividends | M&A | On the move
Transcripts on AAPL
- Apple's CEO Discusses F4Q12 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
- Apple's CEO Discusses F3Q12 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
- Apple's CEO Presents at WWDC 2012 Keynote Address (Transcript)
Why are you receiving this? You subscribed to real-time Market Currents alerts at Seeking Alpha.
If this email was forwarded to you and you wish to subscribe to this email, click here.
Manage your emails:
Get alerts on additional tickers and manage all your email alert choices here
I'm getting too many emails: manage your email alert choices
I'm no longer following AAPL: unsubscribe from all AAPL email alerts
This type of alert isn't helpful to me: unsubscribe from Market Currents (breaking news) alerts on AAPL
To ensure you receive these emails in the future, please add account@seekingalpha.com to your address book, contacts or list of safe senders.
Sent by Seeking Alpha, 345 7th Ave. Suite 1400 New York, NY 10001
No comments:
Post a Comment