Did You See Apple Inc (AAPL)’s Plunge Coming?

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Looking ahead
None of these worries is particularly new or surprising. They’re exactly the same things I have seen coming for years and decided to take bearish action on last year. That CAPScall has been a heavy load at times, but Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is back to just barely beating the market since the year-ago earnings report.

In next week’s earnings report, Apple gets to dispel or confirm some of the current worries, and it might rise again if the news isn’t too terrible. Regardless, it’s still a house of cards resting on fickle consumer trends and an unsustainable margin structure. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) may become a good value and dividend stock some day, but it will never be the trillion-dollar monster everyone thought they saw coming in 2012.

Do note that I’m still in the minority here at the Fool. Several of our analysts, including my own editors and sector chiefs, still believe in Apple going higher. This is The Motley Fool, after all.

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