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Apple will be the first $1 trillion company

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 14th, 2011)

"A million dollars isn't cool. You know what's cool? A billion trillion dollars." If there's one company that will hit a trillion dollar market cap, it will be Apple, according to USA Today. Apple could do it in the next three years. USA Today came up with Apple's trillion dollar market cap ...

Forbes: China growth will propel AAPL shares to $547 in the next nine months

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 1st, 2011)

Eric Jackson at Forbes has written a piece with some astounding numbers about Apple's business in China. Most impressively, Jackson thinks that because of Apple's China business, Apple shares will hit $547 per share by January 2012, which is only nine months away. That's an impressive upswing ...

Credit Suisse initiates AAPL coverage on up and down day

by Michael Grothaus (Mar 17th, 2011)

AAPL shares got slapped silly before market open this morning after a JMP Securities analyst initiated a rare downgrade on AAPL stock yesterday. The downgrade was due to assumed problems with Apple's ability to manage the supply chain for its iOS devices in the wake of the disaster in Japan. ...

What if you had bought AAPL stock instead of Apple products?

by Michael Grothaus (Mar 11th, 2011)

Since 2003, the rise of Apple's stock has been stratospheric. Currently AAPL sits at US$346, but many analysts expect it to be at $450 or higher in the next 12 months. The growth of the stock over the years is attributed to Apple's bottom line, its creative and business teams, the fact that it ...

Ive due $30m stock windfall, may seek relocation back to UK

by Michael Rose (Feb 27th, 2011)

Other than Steve Jobs' brain, the mind most clearly at work in Apple's history of compelling and human-centric products belongs to Jonathan 'Jony' Ive, 44. After joining Apple in 1992, he rose to become the company's senior vice president of product design and has contributed his own clean, ...

RBC ups its target price for AAPL to $425

by David Quilty (Jan 19th, 2011)

It could be partly because of Apple's 71% year over year revenue growth reported in yesterday's first fiscal quarter 2011 earnings report, or it could be the result of the 17 million iPads shipped in 2010. But either way, Boy Genius Report just let us know that RBC Capital Markets has revised their ...

Apple beats Street estimates; 16M iPhones, 7M iPads sold in Q1

by Steven Sande (Jan 18th, 2011)

This just in: Apple's financials for the first fiscal quarter ending December 31, 2010 are in, and Apple easily beat the Street. Revenue for the first quarter rose to $26.7 billion, with earnings per share at $6.43. Apple's gross margin, which is always quite high, was at 38.5%. Wall Street ...

Apple stock rises to over $342 intra-day

by David Winograd (Jan 10th, 2011)

On a day where the Dow Jones Industrial Average is down by US$38.20 and the Nasdaq composite is nearly flat, once again, AAPL is bucking the trend and going straight up. At this writing, Apple stock is at $342.05, (a new intra-day high) and bouncing. So far the stock is up $5.93 or 1.76 percent ...

Goldman Sachs resumes Apple coverage, targets AAPL at $430

by Mike Schramm (Dec 13th, 2010)

Investing firm Goldman Sachs has decided to start covering Apple's stock profile, and that news sent the AAPL stock price up to $325.06 this morning, a nice boost from the day before. And that's not all -- not only did Goldman Sachs pull AAPL into its reporting fold, but it was about as bullish as ...

While store customers get Halloween patches, Apple's retail VP cleans up

by Michael Rose (Nov 1st, 2010)

File under "Awww": Children visiting the Bellevue, WA Apple Store on Halloween were treated to collectible instant-stick logo patches, says iPhone Savior. The patches ran out pretty quickly, but they were popular while they lasted. Patches are certainly nice keepsakes, but if you want to talk real ...

Some Apple execs exercise stock options

by Sam Abuelsamid (Oct 27th, 2010)

Several Apple executives took advantage of the fact that Apple stock hit an all-time high recently to cash out some stock options for extra christmas spending money. Apple hit $319 on October 18 and Bertrand Serlet, software engineering senior VP exercised 5,000 options at $318.50 while controller ...

Tim Cook rumors affect Apple, HP stock

by Dave Caolo (Sep 29th, 2010)

Late yesterday morning, a rumor hit the the Internet suggesting that Apple's COO Tim Cook was going to leave the company to become HP's CEO. As a result, Apple's stock took a dip while HP's showed a sudden spike. In morning trading, Apple's stock fell nearly US$17 (or 5%), while HP's rose by more ...

Cigars all around: AAPL catches MSFT on S&P 500

by Michael Rose (Apr 22nd, 2010)

[This is officially the most times I have had to change a headline. –MR.] Remember "I would shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders" and "the future of Apple looks like Silicon Graphics"? How about "doomed to fail?" Remember "The Mac market is ending?" Good times, good ...

Mercury-News: Apple tops the Valley for valuation

by Dave Caolo (Apr 19th, 2010)

With the total market value of AAPL at about US$220 billion, over the past year Apple has managed to de-throne Google as Silicon Valley's most valuable company. By comparison, the search and cellphone-centric Big G has a market capitalization of about $174B as of today's prices. In a ...

Piper Jaffray AAPL stock forecast bumped up to $299

by Dave Caolo (Apr 14th, 2010)

According to AppleInsider, Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster expects Apple's stock to hit US$299 by the end of the year. When Apple revealed that it had sold 50 million iPhones at the iPhone OS 4 event, the analyst realized that meant at least 6.9 million iPhones were sold in the March quarter, and ...