David Emery on Best and worst Apple analysts: Fiscal Q3 2026 - 'Mebbe. What I think is much more likely is increased prices for the competition will make Apple products more popular than ever. This is the core thing most of the negative ANALysts miss.,'
on Premarket: Apple is red - 'Apple: Off $32 or 9.60% at $301.43 Microsoft: Up $12.81 or 2.84% at $463.91 (following yesterday’s 15% gain) Amazon: Up $35.47 or 15.06% at $270.97 At least for today, two very big hyperscalers win the day!'
on Premarket: Apple is red - 'I just posted the following in the “What the analysts are saying” topic. I believe it’s important to maintain a long-term perspective on Apple’s success: Just three months ago on April 30th Apple closed at $271.35. At this moment Apple is trading at $301.23. That’s roughly $30 higher. I’m grateful for Apple’s success through the years and I remain bullish on the company.'
on Apple's mixed Q3 2026: What the analysts are saying - 'Just three months ago on April 30th Apple closed at $271.35. At this moment Apple is trading at $301.23. That’s roughly $30 higher. I’m grateful for Apple’s success through the years and I remain bullish on the company.'
on Apple's mixed Q3 2026: What the analysts are saying - 'Thank you, PED! Both firms have $360 price targets. IIRC, Morgan Stanley recently raised its price target to $364 from $360 only to return to $360 following results. Please note Apple’s most recent all-time high of $344.57, which was set on Wednesday, is below both price targets and Wamsi Mohan has kept his firm’s price target at $380.'
on Apple's mixed Q3 2026: What the analysts are saying - 'Recently Apple’s share price has benefitted from investor wariness over the AI trade and seemingly endless increases in capex deployments without any indication of a ready pathway for monetization. Many of those concerns have been have been allayed by the results and forward forecasts of both Amazon and Microsoft. They are two of the biggest hyperscalers on the planet and their respective share prices are moving much higher. This morning Amazon’s share price is up over 13%, yesterday Microsoft had its biggest one-day increase in market cap in the company’s history (shares up over 15%) and the shares are up again today. In contrast Apple’s share price is down nearly 10% in early trading. This happens sometimes. Congratulations to Microsoft and Amazon on excellent quarters. Congratulations to Apple for a strong June quarter and best wishes for successfully navigating through the current revenue and profit growth headwinds with a new CEO. I expect Apple to navigate the challenges successfully!'
on Apple's mixed Q3 2026: What the analysts are saying - 'Over the past few weeks Apple’s share price has soared and last evening’s conference call inclusive of forward guidance was a momentum stopper. Apple is facing some significant cost, margin and potentially revenue growth headwinds. A very good June quarter. Growth over the next few quarters for both revenue and net income may be more challenging. That’s the reality and the market will respond to the news.'
on Apple's mixed Q3 2026: What the analysts are saying - 'Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs have weighed in.'
on Apple's mixed Q3 2026: What the talking heads are saying - 'Ha ha.. I just did exactly that – showing willing. An easy $50 per share coming.'
on Apple's mixed Q3 2026: What the analysts are saying - 'Upvoted. Confirmation bias: Laura convinced herself that cloud-AI wins, demolishing the value of safe and powerful client devices. In AI terms, it’s ‘overfitting’.'
on Apple's mixed Q3 2026: What the analysts are saying - 'Funny hair, colorful clothing, and big shoes, right?'
on Apple's mixed fiscal Q3 2026 in five easy charts - 'One more thought: One of the school districts mentioned as going 100% Mac is “Dell City” 🙂 🙂'
on Apple's mixed Q3 2026: What the analysts are saying - '“Also, we don’t share AAPL’s POV that owning 1.5B consumers using 2.5B devices represents a long-term moat…” – Laura Martin Of course she doesn’t. She prefers companies that are in debt up to their eyebrows as the world teeters towards the edge of a massive recession – if we’re lucky….'
on Apple's mixed Q3 2026: What the analysts are saying - 'Apple bought back $62 B in stock last quarter and still has a cash surplus of $39 B (up by $3 B from last year). Meanwhile, Amazon has good revenue and a positive EPS, but I’ll be darned if I can figure out how much debt they have. Anyone know?'
on Apple's mixed Q3 2026: What the talking heads are saying - 'BTW, when Apple started its buybacks back in Q1/FY’13, they’d reported 945.335 M shares in the previous quarter. 945.335X7X4=26.4694 B They just reported 14.714676 B shares remaining. I.e., they’ve bought back 44.4% (!) of the split-adjusted stock to date.'
on Apple's mixed Q3 2026: What the analysts are saying - 'The car has pulled up, and the clowns are starting to tumble out…'
on Apple's mixed Q3 2026: What the talking heads are saying - 'No time to watch these, and would greatly a written summary of each. But I’ll this: What a bunch of crap that selloff was! It’s literally tempting me to buy back some stock with our cash stash – which I never do in recent years. But I won’t. Instead, I’ll let Apple do the job for me. Buy. Apple, buy! Baby needs a new pair of shoes!'
on Apple's mixed Q3 2026: What the talking heads are saying - 'And that’s the “Safe For Work” comment.'
on Premarket: Apple is red - 'Apple’s earnings call was like someone saying “I’ve got the pox. But it will clear up – eventually! “ 🙁'
on Apple at $343.67: Flying above $5 trillion, again - 'Future EU sales will be coming through the UK -WITH AppleAI and a sticker saying: “UP YOURS EU”'
on Best and worst Apple analysts: Fiscal Q3 2026 - 'Will increased wait times make Apple products more popular than ever?!'
on Apple's mixed fiscal Q3 2026 in five easy charts - 'As I’ve said before, in my observations of Apple’s share price performance post-earnings, it takes about three weeks for the market to price in the outcome of the quarter and the forward commentary from management. There’s nothing in the numbers that suggests there are systemic or structural limitations on growth long-term and I believe management is adapting as quickly as possible to changes in its operating environment and its competitive environment. I remain bullish long-term.'
on Apple at $343.67: Flying above $5 trillion, again - 'Sorry, Daniel. Over the course of their buybacks, Apple has bought back, not a third, but 44.41% of its own stock, as of last quarter. FY Q1 ‘13 saw buybacks commence. For FY 2012, Apple reported 945,355 thousand shares (945.335 M shares). Since then there have been two splits – a 7-for-1 split in mid-2014 and a 4-for-1 split again in mid-2020. 945.335X7X4 = 26.4694 B Without buybacks, splits would have equalled 26.4694 B total shares Check: By FY Q2 “14, Apple shares had dropped to 879.528 M. The next quarter, they split 7:1. Thus, they held an estimated (879.528X7= 6,156.696,000 shares. From 10K FY 2014 6.122663 B (after 1st split) From 10-K FY 2020 17.528214 B – (after 2nd split) Today: Q3, FY ‘26 – 14.714676 B shares outstanding. As of today, since buybacks started, Apple has bought back: (26.4694-14.714676)/26.4694 = 44.41% of its own stock .'
on Premarket: Apple is red - 'Amazon also reported today. The shares are up $24.50 or 10.40% overnight at $260. The company reported 37% growth in AWS and aggregate 20% net sales growth.'
on Apple's mixed fiscal Q3 2026 in five easy charts - '” Guidance is ALWAYS conservative, Raj….” Apple’s guidance follows a discernible pattern. Although given as a range it comes down to: A/ Top of range. This is where Apple believes it will perform. B/ Bottom of range. This is a just in case protection against the unforeseen. Should Apple not achieve Top of Range, its results are still within the guided range, ergo not a “miss”. Apple does not include potential for exceeding numbers. If actual results do exceed Top of Range it is as much a surprise to Apple as it is to the Market. After all, when Guidance is given, 1/3 of the quarter is already booked. At that time the view for the last 2/3s of a quarter become crystal clear.'
on Apple's mixed fiscal Q3 2026 in five easy charts - 'Bart: Please see this page linked on Apple’s investor site: https://s2.q4cdn.com/470004039/files/doc_earnings/2026/q3/generic/Q3-26-Return-of-Capital-Timeline.pdf It’s updated every quarter. In FQ3 Apple deployed $25.8 billion for share repurchases comprised of $15.80 billion in open market purchases and $10 deployed for ASRs. As the document indicates, it’s the first time ASRs have been deployed since FY2023. An additional $3.2 billion was deployed for net share settlements in the quarter as well.'
on Best and worst Apple analysts: Fiscal Q3 2026 - 'I think MSFT is conceding the consumer mobile market to Apple with its focus being enterprise serving data centers. IMO, that would be a mistake given Apple’s Baltra ASIC initiative. I think an Apple AI server equipped with M6 SoCs, customized AI models supplied by ”xxx” ensuring data protection/privacy without a token payment structure. This is another convoluted thought that needs more thought. But not this evening, the sun is going down as am I.'
on Best and worst Apple analysts: Fiscal Q3 2026 - 'I’m more concerned about Apple underestimating required component orders. That’s a big lapse in production planning. If I’m thinking about this correctly Apple left a lot of money on the table (unsatisfied demand) and the post earnings selloff was warranted, although the shortfall will be made up for in future quarters (December quarter?). I’m also thinking about structure of the price increases. The iPhone is a consumer product, in that it isn’t primarily a product development machine. An iPhone will be used to consume content, and the big content, the killer App, to be consumed will be Apple Intelligence enhanced. That means the more iPhone 18 handsets sold will translate to greater sales of Apple Intelligence enhanced Apps via the App Store, all at a time when Android doesn’t have a competing on device strategy. You want usable AI, you buy an iPhone, and Apple is trying to influence your decision by maintaining the price of your flagship product while everyone else is being forced to raise their flagship prices and not being able to offer AI enhanced Apps. It’s a convoluted theory, but I can see it as one Apple would use to establish Apple Intelligence as the leader in mobile AI (70% of the market).'


