Tuesday, October 21, 2025

It's Not Going To Be Easy -- Apple To Reach A Market Cap Of $4 Trillion -- October 21, 2025

Locator: 49465ARCHIVES.

AAPL: will have to reach $270/share to make the $4 trillion mark.

Constellation Energy: cover story in Barron's this week. Really amazing. Link here. Includes an interactive map.

P/E:

  • AAPL: 40; historical 28 - 30; forward: 32 - 34: 
  • CEG: 37 

Dividend:

  • AAPL: 0.4%
  • CEG: 0.4%

Market cap:

  • AAPL: trending toward $4 trillion
  • CEG: $115 billion


 

AI prompt

With regard to investing and specifically electric utilities, does it seem like Constellation Energy is significantly different than your father's utility? CEG seems to be a growth company, not a value company. Its P/E must be several orders of magnitude greater than expected for a utility. And it's dividend? It looks like a tech company. Either I'm misreading CEG or investors see this utility playing a major role in generating / delivering electricity to large data centers. Thoughts?

AI prompt

Which companies are likely to be delivering electricity to large data centers in a) west Texas; and, in b) east Texas (Houston and south to the border)?

AI reply

The first reply did not include Constellation Energy. When I pointed that out, AI came back with a notable mea culpa and inserted Constellation Energy into the discussion. 

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The Book Page

The God Problem: How A Godless Cosmos Creates, Howard Bloom, c. 2012.

I have a copy of this book in the Bat Cave. It may be packed away. I thought I was buying a Harold Bloom book when I picked up this copy some years ago while traveling -- I think it was in Kalispell, MT. Whatever.

Today, I spotted it at the local library and am again interested in Howard (not Harold) Bloom.