How could Apple be so stupid?
Let’s see. You’re a company running into serious global headwinds in a maturing (or mature market) that are raising huge doubts about your ability to increase unit sales quarter to quarter for your core product. You: a) Grimly admit that unit sales are...
The two minor–but very important–flaws in Apple’s great quarter
If Apple (AAPL) hadn’t climbed to become the first $1 trillion company by market cap, these flaws probably wouldn’t be worth talking about. But when investors and traders have driven a stock’s valuation up to these levels–in clear anticipation...
Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference focuses on catching up and differentiation
The keynote that opened Apple’s (AAPL) Worldwide Developers Conference (June 4 through 8) walked a tough balancing act between admitting that Apple needs to catch up with competitors in some areas (Poor Siri) and introducing stuff that will differentiate Apple from...
Apple beats on earnings; iPhone sales of 52.2 million slightly below consensus of 52.3 million units
It wasn’t a big beat and iPhone sales weren’t wildly above consensus, but such was the fear and skepticism surrounding Apple (AAPL) that shares rose 3.61% in trading after the earnings announcement. Â The company reported earnings of $2.73 a share, five...
Siri hire from Google latest sign of Apple’s new aggressiveness
Yesterday Apple (AAPL) announced that it had hired John Giannandrea, the architect behind Google Assistant, to take its Siri digital assistant from disappointing to amazing again. (Or at least to make it a credible challenger to Amazon’s Alexa and Google...
Apple gets a two-pronged roasting and the stock stumbles
Apple (AAPL) is getting hit from two directions in the closing days of 2017. On the negative news Apple fell 2.5% yesterday, December 26. The shares rebounded very slightly–0.02%–today. The first bad news came yesterday as analysts cut their estimates for...
Apple to buy Shazam: Now that’s one great move
Today Apple (AAPL) announced that it would buy Shazam for a price that Recode estimates is around $400 million. How do I like this deal? Let me count the ways. (Apple is a member of my long-term 50 Stocks portfolio.) First, in acquiring Shazam, Apple will get a huge...
Apple’s supplies of iPhoneX to be extremely limited at November launch, sales getting pushed into 2018?
Best explanation I’ve seen so far of the details of Apple’s (AAPL) problems with the iPhoneX comes from KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. That report was summarized on MacRumors.com last night. According to the KGI report, the biggest hurdle has likely...
Wall Street starts to pick at the new iPhones–and at Apple shares
Wall Street has started to pick at the details of Apple’s (AAPL) September 12 iPhone event. And it’s not liking all the details on second (or third) look. Apple’s shares finished down 0.86% today, September 14. Apple has closed lower in all three...
How will Apple’s new iPhone match up with the competition from Samsung’s Note 8? Here’s what we know
I’m on vacation until September 6. I wrote this post on August 25 before I left. Back on August 24 I wrote a post rating the snazz of the new Note 8, the top of the line smartphone that Samsung had just introduced. The Note 8, I wrote, set the bar for the high...
Apple’s newest China problem
If you use an Android smart phone in Beijing, you can just tap it to pay for a ride on the city’s transit system. An iPhone? Forget it. Apple’s Phone uses ApplePay. And the company doesn’t grant access to third-party apps like those from Yikatong...
Apple earnings solid enough to support tech sector
The big questions for Apple (AAPL) won’t be answered until this fall when investors get to see the new iPhone (and see how hot or not it is) and learn whether or not Apple’s suppliers are indeed having trouble manufacturing key components such as the OLED...
Samsung’s Galaxy S8 just got less dangerous for Apple
Back on April 3 I pointed to Apple 21 as the next big test for Apple (AAPL) shares. (Apple is a member of my long-term 50 Stocks portfolio.) That’s the date when Samsung’s new Galaxy S8 smartphone will go on sale. The S8 is critical to Samsung–the...
Next hurdle for Apple shares? April 21
Apple (AAPL) shares closed at $143.70 today, April 3, near the record high of $144.12 that the stock set on March 29. The stock, a member of my long-term 50 Stocks portfolio, since November 8, 20165, was up 24.07% for 2017 as of the April 3 close. (The shares are up...
Day 2 for Apple earnings leads to some market concern
Apple (AAPL) shares soared on Wednesday after the company announced December quarter earnings. And there was sure a lot to cheer about as I noted in my post on Apple’s results yesterday. The shares closed up $5.15 to $129. Today, though, was a day for mulling...
Apple plays the earnings game and wins–at least for today
All the headlines that I’ve seen after Apple (AAPL) reported earnings for the December quarter (first quarter of the 2017 fiscal year) after the market close today say that Apple beat Wall Street projections by 14 cents a share on earnings. Which sounds...
Skyworks gains big on earnings beat: What does this mean for the rest of the Apple ecosystem?
After the close today, January 19, Skyworks Solutions (SWKS), a supplier of chips for Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone announced that December quarter earnings had beaten analyst estimates by 3 cents a share. The results also beat on revenue. The company guided Wall Street...
Where will the next new device, the one after the smartphone, come from? Look inside Apple’s iPhone 7 for the answer
Today, I’m going to tell you why Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone 7 is way ahead in the race to build the next new device, the one that comes after the smartphone as it now exists. I think that leading position means you should add Apple stock to your long-term...
Apple earnings, revenue, and iPhone sales disappoint almost exactly as Wall Street had projected
Unfortunately for the price of Apple (AAPL) shares and for Apple shareholders, Wall Street estimates for the September quarter that Apple reported last night, October 25, were almost precisely on track. Apple beat earnings estimates by a penny, reporting $1.67 a...
Big test for Apple–and much of the rest of the tech sector–tomorrow with earnings
Apple (AAPL) is set to report earnings for the quarter that ended on September 30 (fiscal fourth quarter earnings for Apple) tomorrow after the market’s close. The stakes are higher than usual. Wall Street is forecasting that iPhone sales will be just 45 million...
Looking for a tech stock for earnings season: Think Qualcomm
Update September 20, 2016 Going into the third quarter earnings season, Wall Street analysts had pegged the information technology sector of the Standard & Poor’s 500 as the only sector where estimates for the third quarter had climbed since June 30. That...
U.S. stocks pause ahead of earnings
Not terribly surprising that U.S. stocks are meandering in slightly negative territory today after busting out to new all-time highs. (The Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index was off 0.09% at the close in New York.) We’re about to head into the meat of...
Stocks break above all-time high but that doesn’t answer the growth question
In my Saturday Night quarterback post of July 9 on my subscription site JubakAM.com I wrote that the big question for the upcoming week was whether or not the Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index would this week take out the all-time high near 2135 set in May 2015....Buy Synaptics
Today, November 10, I’m adding Synaptics (SYNA) to my Jubak Picks portfolio. The immediate news behind this decision is a Digitimes report last week that Synaptics has won orders from Apple (AAPL) that will put its LCD driver chips into 2016 iPhones. This is quite a...Update Visa
Updated July 24, 2015. On July 23 Visa (V) reported fiscal year third quarter earnings of 62 cents a share (excluding one-time items), beating the Wall Street consensus of 58 cents a share. At $3.52 billion revenue for the period was up 11.4% year over year and ahead...
Visa
If you think of growth at Visa (V) and MasterCard (MA) in terms of business as usual, then even in a slow growth global economy where a company with a clear long-term growth trajectory should command a premium, these two stocks seem pricey. Using the current Wall...The happiness of "early" and the sadness of "too early": How to maximize your portfolio's happiness
There’s early. And then there’s too early. Early is buying Apple (AAPL) on October 6, 2008 at $98.14 and having to wait until March 2009—six months–before the stock moves up. And up. And up. On March 6, 2009 Apple closed at $85.30. A year later on March 5, 2010...Apple–buy on the blip?
Well, actually on two blips. The first is the blip—cost to investors about $6.3 billion on a $6.93 a share drop in Apple (AAPL) shares on July 13—created by research from Consumer Reports that argues that the iPhone4 dropped call issues are the result of a hardware...Apple has completely disrupted the technolgy sector: Can anybody else play this game?
It’s war. Full out war. Savage your former allies war. To the victor go the spoils war. To the death war. It’s Google (GOOG) against Hewlett Packard (HPQ) against Microsoft (MSFT) against Dell (DELL) against Lenovo (LNYGY) against HTC against Amazon.Com (AMZN)—and, of...Jim’s Daily Email Alerts:
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