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To: MGV who wrote (169787)	5/27/2014 10:29:02 AM
From: Ryan Bartholomew	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213173

What objective measure of risk or you citing, or just your opinion that AAPL is low-risk compared to alternatives? Beta, or something else? Even a low-risk investment that loses 10% versus an investment with twice the risk but a 30% gain is underperforming on a risk-adjusted basis. But of course, I'm not aware of any objective risk metric that suggests AAPL is half as risk as its peers. I was addressing your assertion that AAPL has been a good investment over the past 20 months if one market-times the dips extremely well. A more realistic application would be the overall performance (incl dividends) over the same period versus peer alternatives or the broader market without presuming brilliant foresight (which, after all, could be used to make any company look like a wise choice when traded impeccably).