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To: Ryan Bartholomew who wrote (168821)	4/24/2014 10:59:07 AM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

Buying shares near $80 would be more attractive for several reasons (for individual investors). 1. If you want to sell some at a later date when the stock has advanced, you can do that more easily because you have more choices on how much to sell. 2. If you want to donate appreciated shares to a tax exempt charity, that works for the same reason. 3. There is also an old custom of buying round lots (i.e., some multiple of 100 shares) that dates from the time when commissions were less on round lots. While this is no longer true today, a lot of investors (like me) still think in terms of round lots. 4. And of course, for those who might want to give Apple shares to their children or grandchildren, buying a couple of shares at $80 gives more choices than one share at $560. 5. Finally, it is easier for many investors to compare tech stocks when they're all at about the same level. So you could buy Qualcomm or SanDisk, both of which are suppliers to Apple, at approximately the same price as Apple after the split. Then you could watch all three and decide which one is doing better. Art