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by Kelly Guimont (Apr 29th, 2012)

Another quarter, another blowout. While analysts and pundits imagined that domestic iPhone sales would signal an end to the gravy train, international demand pushed the handset past the 35 million mark and shot AAPL back above the $600 line. Even with the iPad refresh hitting at the end of the ...

Apple will webcast Q212 earnings release conference call on April 24

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 20th, 2012)

What is arguably the most anticipated earnings call on Wall Street every quarter will take place next Tuesday, April 24th at 2pm PT/5pm ET. That's when Apple will release its earnings report for the second quarter, which ended March 31st. There's lots of speculation about whether Apple will ...

Report: iPhone 4S sales slowing in developing market

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 19th, 2012)

Analyst T. Michael Walkley of Canaccord Genuity told investors in a Thursday research note that iPhone 4S sales are slowing in "certain developed markets," according to a report by AppleInsider. Some of this slowdown can be attributed to a fresh crop of dual-core and quad-core Android phones ...

Goldman Sachs projects AAPL will hit $750

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Apr 18th, 2012)

Goldman Sachs sees a rosy future for Apple despite recent stock dips, expecting stock prices to hit $750 and advising investors to buy ahead of next Tuesday's earnings report. AppleInsider reports that analyst Bill Shope estimates that Apple sold 31.1 million iPhones and 12.5 million iPads in ...

Daily Update for April 3, 2012

by Steven Sande (Apr 3rd, 2012)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player ...

Apple poised to become world's first trillion dollar company by 2014

by Steven Sande (Apr 3rd, 2012)

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster raised his estimates for Apple share prices this morning, with a new 12-month price target of US$910 per share. Not long after that point, Munster expects the price of AAPL to go beyond the thousand dollar mark, which would translate to a market capitalization of ...

Daily Update for March 19, 2012

by Steven Sande (Mar 19th, 2012)

AAPL closes over $600 for the first time: We respond with poetry

by Steven Sande (Mar 19th, 2012)

For the first time in history, or at least since Apple went public on December 12, 1980, AAPL has closed at over US$600 per share. The stock closed on the NASDAQ exchange at $601.10, up a whopping $15.53 (or 2.65 percent) on the day. AAPL opened at about $598 due to off-hours trading in the ...

Apple plans to initiate dividend and share repurchase program

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 19th, 2012)

A statement by Apple this morning has confirmed the company will start paying dividends to investors and buy back US $10 billion in shares starting this year. Subject to declaration by the Board of Directors, the Company plans to initiate a quarterly dividend of $2.65 per share sometime in ...

Daily Update for February 13, 2012

by Steven Sande (Feb 13th, 2012)

AAPL hits $500

by Steven Sande (Feb 13th, 2012)

Shares in Apple have reached a new all-time high today, pausing briefly at the stratospheric height of $503.83 this morning before dropping slightly below that level. It wasn't all that long ago -- three months -- that Apple shares were quavering around $360. There's more to come. Seeking Alpha's ...

Daily Update for February 9, 2012

by Steven Sande (Feb 9th, 2012)

Apple stock gains nearly $100 since Steve's passing

by Steven Sande (Feb 8th, 2012)

Apple 2.0 editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt is back today with another fascinating Apple statistic: "[Apple] has gained nearly one Facebook in value since Steve Jobs died." Elmer-DeWitt remarks that the share price of AAPL on October 4, 2011, the day before Jobs passed away, was US$372.50 and that the ...

Investors eyeing Tim Cook's management of Apple's cash horde

by Chris Rawson (Jan 26th, 2012)

Every three months Apple announces its quarterly earnings, and we see the company's huge pile of cash grow to increasingly awe-inspiring heights. Like clockwork, a day or two after the earnings announcement comes calls for Apple to give some of that money back to its shareholders in the form of ...

Amateurs beat pros at predicting Apple's Q1 performance

by Steven Sande (Jan 25th, 2012)

When it comes to predicting Apple's financial performance, you may want to ask bloggers, day traders, and amateur analysts instead of listening to Wall Street analysts. As cited in a post by Apple 2.0's Philip Elmer-DeWitt, the real analysts blew it big time predicting Apple's financial numbers for ...