Former sell side analyst, out-of-box thinker, consultant, entrepreneur. Interests: Wife & kids, tech, NLP, fitness, travel, investing, 4HWW.
In a few short weeks, the iPhone 5 should be upon us. One of the interesting metrics that has been talked about of the iPhone is how all new models effectively outsell the cumulative total of prior models. For example, the iPhone 4 sold more than the total of all original iPhone, 3G, and 3G models. So far the iPhone 4S has not yet reached this goal, but it will by the time next...
The value of a company is whatever people are willing to pay for it. And for public companies like Apple, that value equates to an open market stock price times however many shares there are in existence. Street lingo for this is market capitalization, or simply “market cap”. Apple is the world’s most valuable company. Period. Not just among technology companies, but among all...
Lately on iMore, and other websites, there has been a lot of discussion around the idea of Apple selling a lower cost tablet. So I thought it would be worth writing about this topic from the perspective of an Apple investor. Is a cheaper tablet a good idea? Is it necessary?
For the last few years, industry pundits have been reporting on the surprising gap between Apple’s share of shipments compared to its share of profits. Investors care more about profits than market share. On Monday of this week, John Paczkowski of AllThingsD wrote another one of these stories, quoting a report from analyst Tavis McCourt of Raymond James. Tavis is a sell-side analyst...
There’s an interesting story over at Businessweek talking about the possibility of Apple splitting its stock price, and possibly even earning a coveted spot as one of the 30 stocks that make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA). This is all due to a research piece that Toni Sacconaghi, the Apple analyst at Bernstein, published recently. The gist of the story? Sacconaghi makes...
Yesterday, iMore broke the news that Apple would be holding a special event on September 12th, with a release of the iPhone 5 on September 21st. Several other websites including AllThingsD, The Loop, The Verge, and most major news services have now reported on this too. I think this new information really helps to explain the financial guidance that Apple provided to Wall Street on...
Last night Apple reported Q3 fiscal 2012 earnings. If you look at some of the headlines floating around, you’d think Apple was in some kind of trouble. Phrases like “iPhone slump” and “big earnings miss” are being tossed around as if the sky is falling on Cupertino. What a joke. I think this just proves how short term Wall Street’s memory can be. And I’ll get to that in a bit. For...
Monday was packed with the pure excitement and adrenalin of Apple's annual WWDC keynote. Sure, the stock may have declined slightly that day, but this is mostly due to overall market weakness that day and not Apple pessimism. Now that we’ve had a couple of days to digest Apple’s announcements let’s discuss what it means to investors.
Industry research firm Gartner just released its latest data on mobile phone sales for the first quarter of 2012. There are some interesting points to be pulled out of this report that I wanted to address.
Apple'S Q2 2012 results weren't quite as strong as last quarter’s (the holiday period), but year-over-year it was another set of records for Apple.
If a carrier, like AT&T, wants to improve profitability on iPhone sales, it has to do so by reducing the subsidy. The only way to reduce the subsidy is to get Apple to drop its pricing, or to sell at a higher contract price Yesterday, on Wall Street, we saw something rare. An Apple analyst downgraded the stock from a “buy” to “neutral” rating. Most analysts who cover Apple are...
The PC market developed very differently from how the smartphone market is taking form. Because of this, it’s interesting to think about how the tablet market will unfold. Will it be more like the PC market, where we had one dominant OS (Microsoft) and one much smaller player (Apple)? Or will it develop more like the smartphone market where we have multiple viable platforms including...
Apple lays out $45 billion, 3 year strategy to attract new investors and neutralize dilution As expected, and hinted at by Apple CEO Tim Cook, Apple announced the start of a regular quarterly dividend this morning. They also announced intentions to buy back stock, although the dividend is the bigger news, and drew more questions from analysts on the call.
73% of Mobile Nations iPad 2 owners are planning to upgrade, but to what exactly? While we wait for tomorrow’s big iPad event, I thought it would be fun and informative to explore whether or not the next iPad (iPad 3 or iPad HD depending on which rumor you listen to) would drive massive upgrades for Apple.
Late last week, the feds showed up at the home of John Kinnucan and arrested him on charges related to insider trading. John Kinnucan is an equity analyst who founded his own research firm, Broadband Research, LLC. Firms like this employ analysts to do research on stocks. They then “sell” that research to institutional investors. In case the term “institutional investor” is new to...
"I’m in the camp that believes Apple will become the world’s first trillion dollar company." Yesterday we had the pleasure of listening to Tim Cook deliver a superb presentation to a group of institutional investors at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet conference in San Francisco.
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"Is it also possible that Browett's experience at Dixons, and before that Tesco (the world's third largest retailer) might just be right what Apple needs as it continues on its path towards world domination?" We, and pretty much the rest of the blogosphere were, shall we say, slightly bewildered when Apple announced its new SVP of Retail, John Browett. Browett is, at first glance, an...
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"Apple is firing on all cylinders and still looks like it has plenty of room for growth." Tonight, Apple reported its 1st quarter 2012 results for the holiday period ending December. To say it was a good quarter would be like saying the iPhone was sort of different among smartphones when it launched. It would be more accurate to say Q1 was a tsunami of excitement for shareholders....
"If Apple relies on the existing $500 iPad to hit the education market, I think they may just accelerate the ownership of their products to students who were already going to own them … kids in well-to-do families." Yesterday Apple made one of those cool little announcements that probably won't affect too many of us in the short term. But I think their initiative with iBooks 2 and...