And then there were four: Nomura, Barclays, Mizuho and Deutsche Bank.
Apple has been on a tear for more than a year. The pool of analysts advising investors to stay clear of Apple is shrinking. Some have left the business. See Apple analysts play musical chairs on Wall Street.
Below: My full list of Apple price targets, as accurate and up-to-date* as I can make it. Corrections appreciated.
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*Several outlets report that an analyst who shall remain unnamed (long story) has set a street-high price target of $235.
@PED: I’m still interested in this mysterious-analysts story
Me too.
Look up Brian White and 235 and you’ll get a Barron’s article from early Nov. Brian has been setting the highest Apple targets for a while. At least way back to when he set the $888 target pre-split.
Newbie poster, but not a newbie Apple Long. Take a look at the names of the Market Manipulating Perma-Bears. If you followed the advice of Mark Moskowitz and Sherri Scribner over recent years, you would have missed out on signifigant Apple appreciation and the price appreciation coming, will dwarf the returns over the last few years.
Mark Moskowitz downgraded Apple in January, 2017 from 119 to 117, several days prior to the the release of Apple’s 1st quarter 2017 earnings report.
That move alone invalidates anything else that he has to say.
Right now, I’m far more interested in whether AAPL climbs the “call walls” for this coming Friday. Is the present $177/share a head fake? Should we be surprised if AAPL closes the week at or near the biggest call wall sitting at $170/share? Or the second biggest one sitting at $175/share? And once those walls are down, one way or another, what will happen next? Will we see an appreciation going into earnings or a flat market?
And what’s up with this market? Is AAPL just being sucked upwards by a general bullish rip tide that’s at bottom the result of the Trump tax tsunami? But if that’s
true, why are stocks like AMZN leading the charge when they are going to barely be impacted directly?
Inquiring minds want to know….
If this information coming out of China regarding 50% growth year over year for Foxconn in December is true, we are going way higher and maybe as soon as Tuesday:: http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2018/01/foxconn-delivers-50-growth-year-over-year-for-december-mainly-due-to-the-strength-of-iphone-x-orders.html
I’m a large long-term holder of Apple and have never traded Apple options because of the short-term manipulation, FUDD and outright lies that impact Apple close to expiration. Do you remember this market manipulating LIE report that came out in September, 2016: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jaysomaney/2016/09/24/gfk-issues-mysterious-report-slamming-apple-iphone-sales-in-europe-apple-shares-drop/#209a1f9f6b3f
Those type of lies impact options holders, but have no lasting effect on long-term shareholders, however annoying that they are.
It will be interesting to see if the call wall at $175 sees a Friday close (1/19/18) around $174.98. Don’t be surprised to see some Apple FUD to bring AAPL back below that strike. If it closes next Friday above $175, it’s bullish.
AMZN is a modern day Ponzi stock and is a threat to the overall market.
I’ve long noticed that analysts follow (in a strange way ) the market for AAPL up or down, keeping about a 10% gap. When AAPL falls, the gaps widens even as analysts lower their targets. When rising the gap narrows. Now it’s less than 10%.
To Joseph’s question about the market. The market has finally learned arithmetic. The stock is undervalued, hence low risk, with excellent dividend growth and good stock appreciation. The tax changes strengthen the numbers. As for AMZN, it’s about ‘story’ not arithmetic.
BTW, here is something, I think only a few people understand: I´ve read a lot about the iPhone X being less popular than the iPhone 8 (I liked the X but I send it back and purchased an iPhon 8 because of its form-factor) and that this would be bad for Apple.
But what a lot of people didn’t understand is, that even if Apple would sell only iPhone 8, it would make tons of money….and if only a small proportion of its customers choose the X, they will make an extra-ton of money.
No one at Apple ever thought of the X completely replacing the 8, it is only a nice add-on, in terms of functions and price, and I think that it will bring us a big surprise on February the 1.
” But what a lot of people didn’t understand is, that even if Apple would sell only iPhone 8, it would make tons of money ”
I believe the appropriate technical term is “would make metric crap-tons of money.” It should be very interesting to add up the 8 & X numbers and compare those total sales (and of course ASP and margin) to previous iPhone releases.