Best Buy
I gave my opinion about expanding into the Chinese market in my opening argument. So there's no need to revisit that -- I think it's too little, too late.
As for the Apple
Best Buy recently announced a $5.5 billion share repurchase, an increase in its dividend, and an increase in the number of stores it thinks it can open. Yet the stock price did not rise back up to its pre-earnings level. The market is a discounting machine, and if those prospects are already priced in, that's not a good sign going forward. It's definitely possible that the market would be willing to give Best Buy a P/E ratio of 17 five years from now.
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