Naive Investors Understand Apple's Stock Price Better Than the NYT's Reporters

The NYT had a piece on the precipitous fall in the price of Apple's stock since last September. It explained the decline in part by the fact that an unusually large portion of its stockholders are individual investors. These investors were overly enthusiastic about the stock last year and now, according to the piece, excessively pessimistic. It tells readers;

"At its current price, investors are betting that Apple will grow more slowly than the average American company. And they are ignoring...