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Apple stock named top pick for 2012

by Steven Sande (Jan 3rd, 2012)

If part of your Christmas gift stash includes a lot of cash, you might want to consider spending it on shares of Apple, Inc. Ticonderoga Securities has named the company's stock the 'top pick' for investors in 2012, mirroring the recommendation made last year by the group. Of the 20 companies ...

Piper Jaffray: iTunes Match likely breaking even for Apple

by Mike Schramm (Dec 9th, 2011)

Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray believes that for all of Apple's success with iTunes Match so far, the company is probably still only breaking even on the service. Sure, $24.99 a year from all of the service's users is a lot of money flowing in, but there's a lot going the other way as well, from ...

Apple.com fifth most-visited retail site on Black Friday

by Kelly Hodgkins (Nov 30th, 2011)

Black Friday was a successful day for online retailers. Customers spent more than US$816 million, a 26 percent increase over Black Friday 2010. Apple was one of the beneficiaries of this rise in online sales. The Cupertino company climbed its way into the top 5 and became the fifth most-visited ...

Piper Jaffray reports on Apple's impressive Black Friday sales (Updated)

by Kelly Hodgkins (Nov 28th, 2011)

As reported by Philip Elmer-DeWitt at Fortune's Apple 2.0 column, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster crunched his Black Friday sales numbers and found that Macs and iPads were popular gifts. Munster estimated the Apple store(s) he surveyed sold about 10.1 Macs per hour and 14.8 iPads per hour. ...

MacBook Air, Mac mini drive strong Q3 sales

by Kelly Hodgkins (Sep 13th, 2011)

The NPD group released its sales data for the current quarter and things are looking good for Apple. Mac sales are up 22% year-over-year due primarily to the release of OS X Lion and new MacBook Air and Mac Mini hardware in July. In a research note, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster crunched ...

Survey: iPhone retention rate at 94%, interest in iPhone 5 high

by Kelly Hodgkins (Aug 1st, 2011)

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster suggests interest in the iPhone remains strong. In a recent research note, he points to a small survey of 216 mobile phone owners in Minneapolis that shows 64% will buy an iPhone as their next handset. Breaking it down, 94% of iPhone owners plan to buy ...

NPD suggests Apple had another record Mac quarter

by Mike Schramm (Jul 18th, 2011)

A new report from NPD says that Apple has probably done it again, racking up yet another quarter of record Mac sales. NPD puts the number of Macs sold at 4.2 million, which would be a year-over-year gain of 12%, and make for the best record Apple's Mac sales have ever had. US Mac sales in ...

Almost half of iOS developers surveyed also code for Android

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 13th, 2011)

Slightly less than half of iOS developers surveyed at WWDC also write applications for Android, a little over a third also code for BlackBerry devices and 36% focus only on iOS. These figures and more come from a Piper Jaffray survey of 45 iOS developers at WWDC. Besides platform preferences, ...

Munster: Mac sales off to 'slow' start in April, but Q3 looks good

by Michael Grothaus (May 16th, 2011)

Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster issued a report on Apple's Mac sales so far this quarter. According to US sales data compiled by NPD, Apple was off to a "slow" start in April, with only 9 percent year over year growth from April 2010 sales. However, Munster points out that by the same timeframe in ...

iPhone use by teens at a record high and growing

by David Winograd (Apr 6th, 2011)

Piper Jaffray has been polling US teens on their iPhone adoption rates twice a year, and the current bi-annual report was released yesterday. In the survey, 4500 teens were asked about the iPhones that they already own or plan to purchase over the next six months. Of those surveyed, 17 ...

Apple: iPad 2 demand is "amazing"

by Dana Franklin (Mar 14th, 2011)

"Demand for the next generation iPad 2 has been amazing." That's what Apple's spokesperson Trudy Miller told The Loop, and it's consistent with everyone's anecdotal evidence. Apple released the iPad 2 at 5 PM on Friday evening. Long lines of customers greeted the launch, hoping to be one of the ...

Gene Munster: Don't expect long lines for iPad 2

by Dana Franklin (Mar 8th, 2011)

Gene Munster, a senior research analyst for Piper Jaffray, expects the lines for Apple's iPad 2 to be shorter than they were for the original iPad in 2010. Even so, Munster predicts Apple will sell over 1 million of the hotly anticipated iPad 2 in its first 28 days on the market. When the ...

Apple stock hits a new intra-day all time high and Gene Munster weighs in

by David Winograd (Jan 3rd, 2011)

Apple stock (AAPL) has hit a new all time intra-day high by a mile, rising 7.25 percent as of about 11 AM. At last look, it's sitting at $329.81 and is happily ringing in the new year on the first day of 2011 trading. It may be totally coincidental, but our old friend Gene Munster, analyst for ...

Industry analyst -- iPad outselling the Mac

by Steven Sande (May 20th, 2010)

Industry analyst Mike Abramsky of RBC Capital Markets is bullish on the iPad, noting that at this early date, Apple is selling more than 200,000 a week of the new device. By comparison, US sales of Macs are hovering at about 110,000 per week and sales of the iPhone 3GS are at about 246,000 per week ...

Piper Jaffray estimates a big boost in Mac sales

by Michael Rose (Apr 19th, 2010)

In a report issued today (cited by Apple 2.0 and SAI), Piper Jaffray's leading light on all things AAPL gazed into his crystal ball and served up some notes on NPD retail sales data. Gene Munster's numbers are especially interesting as we head into tomorrow's earnings report. The lowdown: Munster ...