The search for the next Apple is on. In some quarters, hopes are high that Facebook will generate Apple-like returns. A picture is worth a 1,000 words, and the chart tells the story. Money has been pouring out of Apple stock and into Facebook stock. Facebook has outperformed Apple by about 90% in a very short time. The price pattern of a stock
To the uninitiated investor, there seems nothing more insane than the contrasting behaviors of Apple and Amazon stocks. Tuesday after the close, Amazon AMZN reported weak earnings, and the stock promptly went up about 9% in the aftermarket. Not many days ago, Apple AAPL reported reasonably good earnings after the close, and
There is a lot more to Tuesday’s introduction of a new version of iPad with 128GB memory by Apple. The uninitiated simply dismissed the introduction of 128GB as nothing more than the evolutionary process of Apple adding more memory. Such commentators are myopic and are looking only at the consumer market
The Greek scholar Archimedes exclaimed ‘Eureka’ when he noticed that the bath tub water rose as he stepped in. He understood that the volume of the water displaced was equal to the volume of his body parts in the water. He was so excited that he reportedly leapt out and
Apple this morning announced a new 128 GB fourth generation iPad. The new 128 GB version is priced at $929 for WiFi plus cellular and $799 for only Wi-Fi model. “With more than 120 million iPads sold, it’s clear that customers around the world love their iPads, and everyday they
There is a lot of whining these days that Apple is no longer innovating. The contention is not true. My analysis of Apple’s innovations going back ten years shows that Apple continues to innovate at about the same pace as it was doing before. The big difference is that now the competition
Experienced investors know that timing a sell is a lot harder than a buy. Fortunately, there is a simple tool that has served us well. The data for the tool is readily available from MarketWatch and does not cost anything. The tool is the analysis of comments on popular stocks
The Apple stock chart has traced a head-and-shoulders topping pattern. This is a well-known and well-followed reversal pattern in traditional technical analysis . The pattern sets Apple’s AAPL downside target at $340. A picture is worth a thousand words, the chart tells the story. Please click here to see the
Apple is waking up to the harsh realities of the world. Perhaps the fall in stock price has helped. There is simply more competition and Apple has to adjust to it. In a major move, Apple is offering some popular songs for just 29 cents on iTunes. This represents a 70%
(The Weekly Digest reproduces the morning capsules made available every morning before the market open in the Real Time Feeds to the paying subscribers.) THE RALLY IS LONG IN THE TOOTH January 25, 2013 The stock market rally is long in the tooth. Our long time subscribers know