Joseph Bland on Premarket: Apple is red - 'What is truly telling today is not what is happening to Apple but what is happening to Microsoft, which, from its ATH less than 3 months ago to the low so far today, is down $116.77/share, or 21%. AAPL is down 6%…'
on Why Apple tops Fortune's 'most admired companies list' again and again and again - 'Can someone explain to me why it would have harmed Apple if Tim Cook had shown a little courage and refused to grovel? The most loved company in the world versus the most hated man in the world. Cook has permanently damaged Apple’s worldwide reputation. Fire Tim Cook!'
on Why Evercore added Apple to its tactical Outperform list - 'Perhaps she’s paying attention to Tommo?'
on Premarket: Apple is red - 'Greg, I think Apple’s share price is being pushed around by the negative momentum that has built up over the last few trading sessions. I also wonder if some doubts have crept into the market about what kind of guidance Apple will give. We know that Apple had a good/great quarter but the market always tries to look ahead. Maybe some doubts about gross margins going forward because of the rise in the prices of memory chips. GM guidance will be a number to pay special interest to in this report.'
on Premarket: Apple is red - 'Almost 2 hours into today’s session AAPL is holding a slim 50 cent move into the green.'
on Premarket: Apple is red - 'I’ve come to focus on when Apple is and is not buying aapl stock, rather than the headlines. Right now, Apple is not buying, and aapl is very weak. aapl is a big part of the various indices, that it pulls them down, too. Anyway, that’s my current way to look at the market.'
on Premarket: Apple is red - 'It’s Wednesday morning but that doesn’t mean Tuesday’s market nightmare is over. Apple, which dropped $8.82 or 3.45% on Tuesday to close at $246.70 is up a mere $0.65 pre-market at $247.35 pre-market. The S&P 500, which closed down 143.15 or 2.06% yesterday, might open in the red in just over a half-hour. I’ll be a buyer very soon. I’m not quite sure it will be today.'
on Citi lowered its Apple target $15 to $315 on memory chip prices - 'I fear it is too late now if that’s the case.'
on Citi lowered its Apple target $15 to $315 on memory chip prices - 'No one wants to “step up” when they think it’s onto a hanging platform. 🙁'
on Citi lowered its Apple target $15 to $315 on memory chip prices - 'What is missing from this and many posts about analysts views, is any mention of the enormous macroeconomic risk that only now is beginning to be priced into securities. What’s at stake right now is literally the stability of the post-WW2 dollar-based economic system. The world is shedding US assets, in part to punish Trump and communicate to US leaders with the only real leverage Europe and others have. And in part due to fear. That could snowball quickly, as the world observes our mad king talking crazed nonsense that raises questions about his literal sanity, his grasp of reality, whether he is clinically unwell, in an administration filled with Fox News toadies who are so out of their depth they cannot see sunlight. And all of this as Democrats cower, while the Republican Congress uniformly falls into line. Where is John McCain when you need him. Will no one step up?'
on Steve Jobs was a jerk to Chris Espinosa, Apple's longest-serving employee - 'From what I read, Espinosa actually turned down the stock from the Woz plan. don;t know why but things weer different in the 70s. But regular stock options over the years has made him a wealthy man.'
on Daniel Ives: Buy Apple et al. on Trump's dumb Greenland threats - '“… Months ago, many of the Trump supporters were very defensive about any negative comment on this forum regarding Trump. But now, with much of the market down…and AAPL down below where it finished 2024, they’ve gone silent…” I, for one, have ‘gone silent’, but not for the supposed reasons you note. I have gone silent because much of the TDS chatter on this board is just a giant echo chamber… each cheering on the other’s slurs. And when I attempt to offer alternate views I get roundly shouted down. For example, did any of you bother to watch the full 90 minute press conference Trump gave today? (NewsMax televised it) It was eye-opening to those who did. His accomplishments are real. And his ‘hard-on’ for Greenland is real… (maybe you are all fine being incinerated by a hypersonic missile, but I, for one, would like a fighting chance to deter that event)… Greenland is key to that defense (as has been well documented for at least 25 years). Maybe you are all fine with millions of illegals in our country… I am not. Many of you kept telling us tariffs are bad; except there is no inflation, and our country is attempting to become fiscally responsible… and you say ‘wait just a little bit longer, inflation will show up’… yet the converse is the fact. And, finally, I picked up a couple hundred shares of AAPL today at 245… based on my presumption that the Greenland negotiation will go far better than many of you presume, and that the quarterly results will surprise to the upside. I may buy more in the next ‘couple days, as the biased media will continue to spew their agenda regarding anything Trump, and can possibly push AAPL down more. No, I will not comment further, I gave up on that months ago… soon after Jerry left (for the same reasons I note above). Some of you have great knowledge to contribute, but as soon as Trump is mentioned, all reason seems to disappear, and knee-jerk reactions occur. I greatly respect those of you who have assiduously avoided polluting this forum with political commentary. …And I continue to subscribe, even though PED sometimes incites the political narrative. 🙂'
on Daniel Ives: Buy Apple et al. on Trump's dumb Greenland threats - 'I heard that Susan Collin’s wrote a sternly worded email and sent it to her drafts folder.'
