“Shares of Apple Inc. slid 0.4% in premarket trading Wednesday after BMO Capital Markets analyst Tim Long downgraded the stock to market perform from outperform,” Emily Bary reports for MarketWatch.
“‘There has been much in the press about order cuts for iPhone X, and we believe a weaker mix in Q1 [the December quarter] will push estimates lower for March and beyond,'” he wrote,” Bary reports. “‘We still view the iPhone base as growing, and the devices are on average getting older,’ Long wrote. ‘However, without a compelling product cycle in September, we may see a slow upgrade cycle once again.'”
Bary reports, “Apple shares have fallen in six of the last eight trading days, mainly on concerns about a production slowdown for the iPhone X.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: When your analyst is basing his ratings on Nikkei’s annual anti-Apple FUDfest, it’s time to get yourself a new analyst.
In what has become the Nikkei’s annual shocker: Apple is decreasing production in the quarter after Christmas. Cue the horror!
Everything in this Nikkei article is conjecture, estimates, and FUD.
This report (as with many of Nikkei‘s Apple-related reports) smacks of a plant designed to depress the price of AAPL. Plain and simple. And Nikkei seems to be the preferred place to do it.
Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to lose money in the stock market. History lesson below. — MacDailyNews, December 30, 2016
SEE ALSO:
Do iPhone X sales spell trouble for Apple? – January 30, 2018
Apple supplier says report of iPhone X production cuts was overstated – January 30, 2018
Another January, another misleading iPhone supply cuts story from Nikkei – January 29, 2018
Apple stock drops after Nikkei report of iPhone X production cut – January 29, 2018
Reports of Apple cutting iPhone X orders make no sense – January 2, 2018
Apple stock tumbles on one poorly-sourced report of low iPhone X demand – December 26, 2017
Apple and suppliers shares drop on report of weak iPhone X demand – December 26, 2017
Nikkei: Apple to decrease iPhone production 10% in first quarter of 2017 – December 30, 2016
Nikkei proclaims ‘iPhone 7’ Dead On Arrival; bemoans Apple’s ‘lack of innovation’ – May 12, 2016
Japan’s Nikkei, The Wall Street Journal blow it, get iPhone demand story all wrong – January 16, 2013
Did Apple reduce 4-inch Retina display orders due to improving yields? – January 15, 2013
Analysts: iPhone 5 demand ‘robust;’ ignore the non-news noise – January 15, 2013
Apple iPhone suppliers decline on report orders cut by 50% – January 15, 2013
Apple swoon erases $17 billion from stock market – January 14, 2013
Apple iPhone 5 production cut signaling a new product release? – January 14, 2013
Apple drops to 11-month low on old reports of component cuts – January 14, 2013
The strange math of Apple’s alleged massive iPhone 5 component cuts – January 14, 2013
UBS analysts: Apple iPhone component order reduction ‘old news’ – January 14, 2013
Apple pulls down U.S. futures – January 14, 2013
Apple shares drop below $500 after reported cuts in iPhone 5 parts orders – January 14, 2013
… get back into AAPL. “smacks of a plant designed to depress the price of AAPL” was my opinion, as well. My concern was timing … had it “hit bottom” yet? Or could I get just a few more pennies per share, a week or two sooner, by waiting. Went with the former.
Hmm. Never paid any attention to analysts.
The gain from my AAPL investment is around 2000% since 2006. In contrast, my 401k investment funds are limited to around 400% since in the same time frame.
Apple stock is a long term hold for me until I think the company is going in the wrong direction.
I am so happy for you.
Dare it all cowboys! The Wallnut Street herd has split in two directions. It’s time for a roundup!