Apple /quotes/zigman/68270/quotes/nls/aapl AAPL -0.15% reports earnings on April 24 after the close. The consensus estimate is $10.05 for earnings and $36.73 billion for revenues. Of course, as usual, the breakdown of numbers by product category will drive the price of the Apple stock. Apple stock price has lately been very
U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh has ordered a settlement conference between Apple (AAPL) and Samsung (SSNGY). The settlement conference will be moderated by a magistrate judge. Both Apple and Samsung have agreed that their chief executives and general counsels will participate. Here is the order from Judge Koh: “The
The headline is that Warren Buffett has prostate cancer. There are legions of Buffett experts and prostate cancer experts. I am neither. Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A, BRK-B) stock has been on my short list to buy and recommend to my subscribers for the last month. So far the U.S. stock market has moved up
I have been a mega bull on Apple (AAPL) ever since recommending a buy in the stock when it was $131. I rely heavily on rigorously analytical, probability-based algorithms. I was writing about the high probability of Apple stock reaching $1,000 long before Apple began it’s manic run from below $400 earlier
It was not that long ago that a vigorous debate raged between investors about which one was a better investment, Google or Apple. Apple’s stock price went on a tear and the debate died. After Google’s Thursday evening earnings release, the debate as to which company is better will surely reignite. Dividend
AT&T helped raise Apple‘s iPhone from its infancy to becoming the most popular phone in the world. How can AT&T now take its love away from iPhone and shower it on the new baby fromNokia, Lumia 900, running Microsoft Windows? Sherlock Holmes would have replied, ‘It is elementary, my dear Watson.’ AT&T had an
I am always searching for the next Apple, but the probability of a company turning into another Apple is woefully low. However, from an investment perspective, finding another Apple simply means finding another stock that generates a several hundred percent return. There have been dozens of these situations in the past
“Best Buy has simply become a show room for Amazon,” I wrote about two years ago. At that time, Best Buy stock was trading at $45. As of this writing, the stock is just above $24. After Best Buy (BBY) reported earnings on Thursday, there has been a barrage of negative
The iPad has been a big success for Apple (AAPL). Apple bulls dream of iPad gaining and maintaining a market share similar to iPod. As a matter of fact, this is one of the propositions underlying some of the very high targets by analysts on Apple stock. Until now, there
In the month of March, Apple (AAPL) insiders have been dumping their stock. It is said a picture is worth a thousand words. There is no picture here, so the table below will have to do. I am purposely not regurgitating in one thousand words the contents of the table. The words