50 Stocks Portfolio member TSM reports record quarterly revenue on 5G iPhone demand
Today, January 8, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM), the world’s largest contract chipmaker, reported December sales that translate into record quarterly revenue with estimated sales in the quarter climbing to $12.9 billion (361.5 NT$). (The company...
iPhone sales in China show double-digit growth in December
Apple’s iPhone shipments in China grew 18.7% year over year in December to roughly 3.18 million units, according to Bloomberg. (Bloomberg’s calculations are based on data from the China Academy of Information and Communication Technology, a government...
iPhone sales up in China continuing Apple revenue momentum
Apple (AAPL) shipped 10 million iPhones in China during September and October, according to Bloomberg. That would be an increase of 6% from the same period in 2019. The projections add to speculation that sales of the iPhone 11 are running ahead of Wall Street...
Apple sketches in September product launches–will they be enough?
Two big clouds of doubt hover over shares of Apple (AAPL). First, will the continuing U.S.-China trade war take another bite out of Apple’s China revenue? And/Or disrupt Apple’s China supply chain, saddling the company with higher tariffs on its made in...
Apple contemplates moving some production from China–but not back to the United States
President Donald Trump has argued that slapping higher tariffs on Chinese goods exported to the United States would bring jobs back to this country–if China didn’t agree to a new trade deal–as companies moved factories in order to avoid the higher...
Apple meeting lowered earnings, revenue expectations–and then guides lower for next quarter
Goes to show you that if you lower expectations enough, you can beat them when you actually report earnings. Even if the earnings report itself is bad news. After the close of the New York market today, Apple (AAPL) reported December quarter earnings of $4.18 a share...
Apple gets a two-pronged roasting and the stock stumbles
Apple (AAPL) is getting hit from two directions in the closing days of 2017. On the negative news Apple fell 2.5% yesterday, December 26. The shares rebounded very slightly–0.02%–today. The first bad news came yesterday as analysts cut their estimates for...
Wall Street starts to pick at the new iPhones–and at Apple shares
Wall Street has started to pick at the details of Apple’s (AAPL) September 12 iPhone event. And it’s not liking all the details on second (or third) look. Apple’s shares finished down 0.86% today, September 14. Apple has closed lower in all three...
Apple’s newest China problem
If you use an Android smart phone in Beijing, you can just tap it to pay for a ride on the city’s transit system. An iPhone? Forget it. Apple’s Phone uses ApplePay. And the company doesn’t grant access to third-party apps like those from Yikatong...
Day 2 for Apple earnings leads to some market concern
Apple (AAPL) shares soared on Wednesday after the company announced December quarter earnings. And there was sure a lot to cheer about as I noted in my post on Apple’s results yesterday. The shares closed up $5.15 to $129. Today, though, was a day for mulling...
Apple plays the earnings game and wins–at least for today
All the headlines that I’ve seen after Apple (AAPL) reported earnings for the December quarter (first quarter of the 2017 fiscal year) after the market close today say that Apple beat Wall Street projections by 14 cents a share on earnings. Which sounds...
Skyworks gains big on earnings beat: What does this mean for the rest of the Apple ecosystem?
After the close today, January 19, Skyworks Solutions (SWKS), a supplier of chips for Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone announced that December quarter earnings had beaten analyst estimates by 3 cents a share. The results also beat on revenue. The company guided Wall Street...
Apple earnings, revenue, and iPhone sales disappoint almost exactly as Wall Street had projected
Unfortunately for the price of Apple (AAPL) shares and for Apple shareholders, Wall Street estimates for the September quarter that Apple reported last night, October 25, were almost precisely on track. Apple beat earnings estimates by a penny, reporting $1.67 a...
Looking for a tech stock for earnings season: Think Qualcomm
Update September 20, 2016 Going into the third quarter earnings season, Wall Street analysts had pegged the information technology sector of the Standard & Poor’s 500 as the only sector where estimates for the third quarter had climbed since June 30. That...Verizon gets the iPhone tomorrow (probably), but who gets the profits?
Verizon (VZ) and Apple (AAPL) will hold a press conference tomorrow to announce, everybody on Earth and the inner planets believes, that Verizon will start selling the iPhone in February 2011. The big question, though, is price. Will Verizon subsidize iPhone sales to...The other war between Apple and Google
There are two fronts in the increasingly bitter war being fought between Apple (AAPL) and Google (GOOG). And while the contest between the iPhone and Google’s Nexus One (and other Android phones) is getting most of the ink, it’s the apps battle that comes with the...Apple's iPhone to go to T-Mobile and not Verizon in 2010
When AT&T’s (T) exclusive deal expires in 2010, Apple’s (AAPL)  iPhone is most likely to find a second home with T-Mobile and not Verizon (VRZN). That’s the conclusion of a note published by analyst Doug Reid of Thomas Weisel Partners and picked...Has Apple blown it? Did the company squander the competitive chance of a lifetime?
I know Apple (AAPL) is an investor darling trading near an all-time high. And I know the company’s products have tremendous consumer cache. So much so that the company is able to sell its iPhones and iMacs for prices well above those charged by competitors. But it...Head to head: Apple versus Nokia. Which is the better stock to buy?
Apple (AAPL) crushed Wall Street estimates when it reported earnings on July 21. Earnings per share for the company’s fiscal third quarter grew 13% from the third quarter of 2008. Revenue grew by 12% in a quarter when almost no company is reporting any sales growth....Jim’s Daily Email Alerts:
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