Where to buy Apple shares?

3thr3e

Hi,

I'm new to investments and having done my research I am looking at investing in Apple. I just want to invest £500 over a year or so.

I am having trouble finding brokers who will allow me to trade on NASDQ. Do you have any suggestions? Should I just use HSBC investdirect plus?

Any advice much appreciated.

Thanks,

Tim

tradetime

Shouldn't have thought it was that hard to find a broker to do that. Interactive Investor do. TD Waterhouse should

Asheron

3thr3e wrote: »

Hi,

I'm new to investments and having done my research I am looking at investing in Apple. I just want to invest £500 over a year or so.

I am having trouble finding brokers who will allow me to trade on NASDQ. Do you have any suggestions? Should I just use HSBC investdirect plus?

Any advice much appreciated.

Thanks,

Tim

Apple shares? are you kidding me ? lol

You are not going to get rich by investing in Apple Shares.

leahciM

Have you properly considered this?

You're new to investing - and £500 'over a year' would mean that a significant % of your money will be gobbled up in charges put out by the broker.

Furthermore, I assume you don't have any other investments (cos you're new to it) so do you really want to tie your money into the fate of one company?

Particularly at a time when Steve Jobs has taken a leave of absence due to health issues, Android and Google (and a new mega deal between Nokia and Microsoft) are rapidly catching onto the smartphone market and tablets, which haven't sold that well, for an Apple product at least, are being brought out by most major competitors.


Add to this the fact that Apple famously doesn't pay dividends and I think maybe you might wanna look into doing a bit more research.

On the plus side though, as far as I can tell Apple is trading on a price to earnings ratio of 13ish, which is quite nice if you judge companies that way.

[Deleted User]

Hi,

Yesterday:

Apple shares, which closed down 1 percent at $354.54, fell to an intraday low of $348.00 but spiked back up in a few minutes during afternoon trade.

You're not going to get much for your £500, after commission, exchange rate, buy one of the iPhones instead, you'll get more fun out of it.

bendix

leahciM wrote: »

Particularly at a time when Steve Jobs has taken a leave of absence due to health issues, Android and Google (and a new mega deal between Nokia and Microsoft) are rapidly catching onto the smartphone market and tablets, which haven't sold that well, for an Apple product at least, are being brought out by most major competitors.


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Nonsense.

Apple are streets ahead. They create markets and whole new product categories.

Ten years ago it was the ipod. Do you ever wonder what happened to MS's much vaunted Zune player which was touted as competition?

F4-5 years ago it was smartphones. Now every smartphone looks like a poorman's iphone.

Last year it was the tablet market - noone is doing it better than Apple.

Don't get me started on the beauty that is MacBookAir, a product which will easily outsell other products in its category despite being twice as expensive.

Apple is not a company. It's no longer even a brand. For many who want the best NOW, it is a way of life.

bendix

One other thought .. if you want to buy have investments closely linked to Apple, I suggest you invest in the GLG technology fund. From memory, around 10% of the fund is in Apple stock, and another big chunk (around 8%) is in ARM, a company whose fortunes are closely linked to Apple.

Nikel

3thr3e wrote: »

where to buy apple shares?

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leahciM

bendix wrote: »

Nonsense.

Apple are streets ahead. They create markets and whole new product categories.

Ten years ago it was the ipod. Do you ever wonder what happened to MS's much vaunted Zune player which was touted as competition?

F4-5 years ago it was smartphones. Now every smartphone looks like a poorman's iphone.

Last year it was the tablet market - noone is doing it better than Apple.

Don't get me started on the beauty that is MacBookAir, a product which will easily outsell other products in its category despite being twice as expensive.

Apple is not a company. It's no longer even a brand. For many who want the best NOW, it is a way of life.

Apple zealots are boring.

Yes, Apple have brought a lot of these things to market, but competitors are catching up.

Furthermore, Steve Jobs is the face of Apple his death or retirement would take a lot away from the Apple brand - and you can bet that the company will search to find a new 'cool guy' CEO to replace him and go on as the face of the company.

But will the new guy be good enough to replace Jobs? Probably not.

Finally, the MacBook Air is a terrible machine - accept that you'll end up getting frustrated because you've only got 1 USB port and 2MB non-upgradable memory and buy yourself a MacBook.

or

Accept that MacBook Airs can barely achieve what they set out to and get yourself a nice iPad to play with in Starbucks to look cool in front of the yummy mummies.


PS, this is written from my Macbook. I'm a big apple fan, but some of their products, the MacBook Air especially, are genuinely terrible.

cashbackproblems

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jinkster

Personally I wouldnt be buying Apple shares. Have you ever heard the saying " buy low, sell high" they are at a peak at the moment and will all competition on the markets, I.e. Nokia and Microsoft joining suite - I'd be cautious!