What nobody actually understands is whether you are a complete idiot or is there a bit missing.
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what you talking about i said apple being lifted by the ai rally contributed to the investment losses being reversed somewhat from prior period
and your statement about operating earnings means little to me other than great they are performing
im only interested in stock performance as thats how i get paid
You should just buy bitcoin or some sh!tcoin that's been pumped 1000% in a week then. After all you're only interested in past performance.
Earnings is everything in investing. Otherwise you're just playing a game of whose a greater fool between you and the other party involved in the transaction.
Well if you're purchasing stock in a company which is generating cash it has a set intrinsic value, which is just the sum of its future cash flow discounted however you decide. Which means that cash generated can be distributed out to its shareholders at some point in the future. If you are buying a stock significantly below its intrinsic value with an adequate margin of safety, then you certainly cannot be the fool in that scenario.
If you are purchasing stock above its intrinsic value in hope you can sell it to a "greater fool" then it is impossible to know if you were the fool. Although you could make money doing that for a bit, more often you lose.
That's probably a poor explanation of greater fool theory but the point is earnings is very important.