What is the cheapest way to buy Apple shares

A_T

darkidoe wrote: »

Cost of one would probably be too expensive.

I want a nice shiny white one!

AnotherJoe

darkidoe wrote: »

Cost of one would probably be too expensive.

Not at all. Invest 1 ducat in Venice around 1400 and by now it will return sufficient capital to enable you to design construct and power a time machine capable of sending you back from now to Venice in 1400 with one ducat in order to ..... etc

(no prizes for originality there's a short SF story i summarised for that )

george4064

AnotherJoe wrote: »

I have Apple shares "naked" in a US broker and a U.K. one (TD) plus some in my SIPP with HL.

If I was starting from scratch I'd probably buy the "naked" ones in an ISA with TD as I believe you can sell and buy US shares in $ without having to convert to Sterling each time. At least you can in their trading account so I assume it would be the same in an ISA though I haven't checked.

HMRC forbid any foreign currency cash in an ISA, only GBP.

AnotherJoe

george4064 wrote: »

HMRC forbid any foreign currency cash in an ISA, only GBP.

Thanks I didn't know that. So that rules out trading on any sort of frequent basis then.

Thrugelmir

News from Dixons today suggests that high product prices are beginning to bite.

Space_Cadet_Smith

Wow buying at the top of the market, that's a new one on me. Remind us again when the last time Apple innovated rather than copied, it was certainly whilst Jobs was still around.

AnotherJoe

Space Cadet, people are always buying at or near the top of the market, If they didn't, markets wouldn't rise. Nothing new there.

As for Apple innovating, what has that got to do with its profitability??

I think a year or two ago, Apple was making something like 105% of the profit in the smartphone market. No, that's not a typo. More than 100%. I guess that alone is innovative?