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APPLE stock
Shardena Perry
Tiffin University
MGT 506
Week 7 Assignment
October 9, 2014

From NASDAQ, my chosen stock is AAPL, which is the symbol for Apple Inc. “ Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Cupertino, California, Apple designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, software, online services, and personal computers. “(Apple.com) Apple’s most successful items have been the Mac computer, the iPod, and iPhone Apple was founded on April 1, 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne. Apple was incorporated as Apple, Inc. January 9, 2007. The company has a net income of approximatively 37 billion a year, and employs approximately 98,000 employees. “Apple Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets personal computers and related personal computing and mobile communication devices along with a variety of related software, services, peripherals, and networking solutions. The Company sells its products worldwide through its online stores, its retail stores, its direct sales force, third-party wholesalers, and resellers.”(Bloomberg)

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An interesting fact is that, “Apple grew its sales by $22 billion last year. That growth alone is bigger than most



References: http://www.businessinsider.com/15-amazing-facts-about-apple- https://www.apple.com http://www.bloomberg.com https://www.jpmorgan.com/pages/jpmorgan https://www.jpmorgan.com/pages/jpmorgan/about/history/didyouknow http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/morgan_j_p_chase_and_company http://www.jpmorganchase.com/corporate/About-JPMC/jpmorgan-history.htm http://online.wsj.com/articles/larger-apple-ipad-to-be-delayed-1412846867

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