This post was published on ZYX Buy Change Alert. AAPL has just issued a news release that it will make judicious use of its cash in response to David Einhorn’s call to issue preferred stock. The stock is beginning to run. Only aggressive investors may consider initiating or adding to the
This post was just published on ZYX Short Change Alert. There are reports that AAPL iOS6 contains building blocks of a potential competitor to P. If AAPL were to introduce a Pandora like service, our target for P is $3-4. CAUTION: P HAS HIGH SHORT INTEREST, THEREFORE ONLY A VERY SMALL
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