“Shares of Apple (AAPL) continue to be under pressure [today], falling $10, or 1.4%, to $690.07, worse than the 0.7% decline in the Nasdaq Composite Index, after the company this morning said it sold more than 5 million iPhone 5 units since the device formally went on sale last Friday, including pre-ordered units, while stating that demand has exceeded the company’s initial supply,” Tiernan Ray reports for Barron’s.
“That was more than the 4 million or so the company sold in the debut weekend of the prior model, the iPhone 4S in October last year, but it was less than figures put out by Wall Street analysts that had been in the neighborhood of 7 million to 8 million units.,” Ray reports. “An article this morning by The Wall Street Journal’s Ian Sherr and Ann Zimmerman notes that Apple provided fewer units of the iPhone 5 to its third-party retail partners this year than it has for prior debuts, including Best Buy.”
Ray reports, “Shaw Wu of Sterne Agee reiterates a Buy rating and an $840 price target, writing that the tally ‘is a bit lower than estimates as high as 10 mm’ but that ‘we are not overly concerned as this is still a big number and believe this is more a matter of high expectations getting out of touch with reality.'”
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Fuvk the so called analysts !
Indeed. With AAPL, it’s always “You only sold X million? Why not X+1 million? (or X+2, x+3, x+4. …)
Let’s see them do that to the automakers!
“we are not overly concerned as this is still a big number and believe this is more a matter of high expectations getting out of touch with reality.”
An analyst with common sense? What’s this world coming to? /strong sarcasm
Why don’t these anal-ysts make it 50 or 100 million on opening weekend while they’re at it for all the sense it makes and impossible numbers to achieve. That said I know Apple sold more than this.
How is selling something faster than it can be produced seen as a bad thing?
Sales will be through the roof. Guaranteed. Now shut up.
How come these anal ists didn’t see the financial meltdown coming?
lol, no kidding
the greatest success in an analysts life is getting that high paying analsyt job while being clueless …
Hey, who are you calling clueless?
+ a bunch!
Woof!, woof!!
If everybody knew everything about the i5 before-hand, then why would they predict 7-8 million in sales, when they should have known the actual production number! Hmmmm….
“Apple’s a total failure!” – my ass it is! Just a vehicle for day-trading Brokers.
In the span of four days, every single one of the 5 million iPhones 5’s in Apple’s initial inventory has been sold.
And Wallstreet is punishing them? I’m sorry, how the HELL was Apple supposed to sell 7 to 8 million units when they were only able to crank out 5 million by launch day?
What the hell are you clowns even analyzing?
Can’t all of us Apple stockholders get together and sue the analysts for incompetence of have the SEC investigate them for intentional market manipulation
of = or
The SEC is a bigger joke than the analysts…I hope I’ve been helpful.
Or just do what I do. Take a long term view and wait for things to sort themselves out. It’s a strategy that has worked extremely well.
Today’s event is just a blip on the chart. And if you’re not fully in yet, it’s a chance to get in at a discount.
Few are doubting that Apple will sell at least 200M phones. Maybe even 250M. And they net more than $300 per phone. And yet nobody seems to connect the dots are see that that’s $60B – $75B in *net* profits from the phone alone. Fast forward one year and Apple has booked an absurdly monster year like that and where will the stock price be? I can’t tell you for sure, but I’ll bet there a comma in it.
I can’t wait till next year when there are no display constraint issues and Apple sells 10 million iPhone 5s’s on opening weekend, despite the haters whining that “it’s exactly the same as the iPhone 5.” Apple has the power, all they need to do is make enough of them before hand and expend the opening day countries list (e.g. China mobile).
… it was less than figures put out by Wall Street analysts that had been in the neighborhood of 7 million to 8 million units.
And once again, the sane conclusion is to: FIRE THE ANALYSTS!. But no, let’s make this Apple’s fault. And/Or: Let’s turn this into another method of manipulating Apple stock! Take your choice. 😯
Anyone have the new sales figures on Blatant Market Manipulation for Dummies? It’s a real hit on Wall St…