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Wall Street analysts weigh in on the iPad mini

by Steven Sande (Oct 24th, 2012)

Although Apple's stock fell sharply after the event yesterday -- it closed at around US$613 after opening the day at about $631 a share -- most Wall Street analysts are saying that the iPad mini will be a hit with consumers. The $329 starting price of the iPad mini was seen by Chris Whitmore ...

Apple Q4 earnings call scheduled for October 25

by Steven Sande (Oct 1st, 2012)

Yesterday was the end of Apple's 2012 fiscal year and today, the company announced that it will hold its fourth quarter earnings call on Thursday, October 25 at 5 PM ET. The call will be the first real indication of how the iPhone 5 is doing in the market. As usual, TUAW will offer a liveblog of ...

AAPL sets another record: $700 in after-hours trading

by Michael Grothaus (Sep 17th, 2012)

I've been preaching AAPL for as long as I've been long on the stock -- or about 10 years now. In that time Apple has gone from being just another PC manufacturer to being the most valuable company on the planet and the master of the mobile handset world. Only three years ago, the stock was ...

iPhone 5 announcement pushes AAPL to another record high

by Kelly Hodgkins (Sep 17th, 2012)

Apple announced the iPhone 5 last week, and pre-orders of the device were very impressive. According to the Washington Post, Wall Street responded favorably to the news of the iPhone 5, and brisk trading pushed Apple's stock to another record high. Apple opened the day on Friday with a record ...

Apple vs. Samsung verdict: How Wall Street is reacting

by Steven Sande (Aug 27th, 2012)

It's the first full day of Wall Street trading since Friday's Samsung patent infringement verdict, and the markets and analysts are reacting pretty much as expected. AAPL opened trading today at $679.99 a share (up about 2 percent), peaked briefly at $680.87, and is currently moving around the ...

Daily Update for August 21, 2012

by Steven Sande (Aug 21st, 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 ...

Could AAPL split in a move toward Dow? Bernstein analyst thinks it will

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jul 31st, 2012)

A week after Apple posted its third-quarter earnings for 2012, Bernstein Research analyst A.M. "Toni" Sacconaghi speculates that the time is right for Apple to split its stock if it wants a future spot as an indexed member of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The Dow is woefully ...

Talkcast tonight: Profits, taxes and WWDC at 10 pm ET / 7 pm PT

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)

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 ...