“Shares of Apple Computer Inc. rose in Monday pre-market trading, after a ThinkEquity analyst raised his price target on the stock to $100, saying the computer maker is poised to gain from a successful back-to-school season and the upcoming release of its Leopard operating system. ‘Never in the history of the PC has a company been better positioned than Apple is at this time, to both gain share and improve profitability,’ analyst Jonathan Hoopes wrote in a note to investors,” The Associated Press reports.
“Hoopes maintains a ‘Buy’ rating on the shares, predicting that the company will see a boost in customers at retail stores from recent upgrades to its iPod music players and its set-top box, iTV, which will allow customers to wirelessly send movies purchased online to their TV sets,” AP reports. “Looking ahead, Hoopes predicts Apple central processing unit shipments will grow 28 percent in fiscal 2007. Furthermore, he believes Apple, like other PC vendors, will benefit from pent-up demand in European markets.”
AP reports, “Shares of Apple rose 75 cents, or 1 percent, to $73.75 on the INET electronic stock exchange, having closed Friday at $73 on the Nasdaq.”
Full article here.
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I just checked a few market caps:
Apple: 62.27B ($73.00/share)
Dell: 48.70B ($21.44/sahre)
HP:96.16B ($35.11/share)
An Apple share price of $100 would give Apple a Market Cap of $85.30B.
iSteve, thanks for the info!
What is important to calculate as well is the P/E ratios of the companies. AAPL is trading a a premium because the market believe it to be a dealer, while DULL trades with a multiple far closer to book value because, well, they are just an assembly line and spare parts.
BUT…
depending on your philosophy, higher P/E not necessarily bad…
personally, I believe certain sectors better suited to “momentum” vs. “value” styles.
Oh dear for all those business that have gone down that dead end street…called Windows.
$100 will be with us before March ’07… (which is when we predicted $200 before the share split before end 2007).
AAPL might have a high P/E at the moment but the iTV, iPhone, Leopard, Office/Photoshop-for-Intel and the Intel Mac momentum, my guess is that Apple will be a 30B company in 2 years time!
Dell is off course, H-P is imploding, Sony is exploding and Microsoft is still constipated.
Another analyst buys a cluestick.
Rainy Day said: “Another analyst buys a cluestick.”
Too funny!