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To: Moonray who wrote (149529)	1/30/2013 1:46:47 PM
From: Kelly G.	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

Think about it this way. If you spent $425 billion to buy Apple today--the whole company, not some shares of stock--you would be able to immediately pocket the $135 billion of Apple's cash. You would then own a business that spits out about $40 billion of cash per year. Assuming the business maintains close to this level of earnings, you would get the remaining ~$300 billion of your purchase price back in about 7-10 years. You would then own all of Apple and its future earnings "for free." A colleague of mine was agreeable to loaning me money at a low rate of interest but then I told him how much I needed and he balked. Oh well, maybe we can all pool are money here and come up with it? In any event, I do know one entity that is buying up Apple stock right now and that is Apple. Smart guys those Apple folks. Say, if the stock doesn't go up, Apple can just keep buying back all of the outstanding shares over the next few years and take the company private. Then, they don't have to worry about those pesky ANALysts anymore.