Category Archives: Apple

Apple’s No Debt Ceiling Leads Market Higher

Posted on July 25, 2011 by macromon

Apple is doing the heavy lifting leading the market off its opening lows.   It appears the market is repricing Apple to a “permanently higher plateau.”   Yikes!  Careful there, Mr. Fisher! Seriously, we read lots of reports over the weekend about … Continue reading →

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Apple Nation: Key Metrics as a Country GDP

Posted on July 21, 2011 by macromon

In prior posts we’ve compared Apple’s market cap and cash position to country GDPs.  Here is our update, which also includes annualized revenue and profits from the recent earnings release. Apple’s market cap is now larger than all three European … Continue reading →

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Apple Valuation and Sensitivity Analysis

Posted on July 20, 2011 by macromon

(click here if charts and table are not observable)

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Apple’s Big Beat: What’s Next for the Stock?

Posted on July 19, 2011 by macromon

We’re still reeling from Apple’s stunning and historic earnings release after the market close.   The company beat expectations by over 34 percent, posting $7.79 per share and up an unbelievable 121.9 percent y/y and 21.7 percent q/q.  Revenues grew 81.5 … Continue reading →

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Nonlinear Thinking: Smart Phone Cataract Detecting Device

Posted on July 19, 2011 by macromon

This is what we’re talkin’ about! We stumbled upon this while reading a Blooomberg piece this morning, Health Tools for Apple’s IPhone May Get Same Scrutiny as Stents.  This is the exact technology that will lift the American and global … Continue reading →

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When Apple Leads….

Posted on July 7, 2011 by macromon

Apple is up almost 15 percent off  the June 20th low of 310 and leading the overall market higher.  This is the stock’s best move since last September.  We’ve posted several pieces on Apple’s market leadership (click here).  With no … Continue reading →

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Apple aims to ship 12-14 million iPad 2s in 3Q11 – Digitimes

Posted on July 1, 2011 by macromon

More news from the Apple supply chain.  This story was published earlier at Digitimes: As the IT market approaches the third quarter, the traditional peak season, Apple is turning more aggressive in placing orders for its iPad 2 and is … Continue reading →

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Apple likely to dethrone HP as leading portable PC vendor – Digitmes

Posted on July 1, 2011 by macromon

We found this interesting over at Digitimes: Apple is likely to replace Hewlett-Packard (HP) as the global number one notebook vendor in 2012 if tablet PCs are included in the calculation of global notebook shipments, according to industry sources. Global … Continue reading →

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Markets Catch Traders Offside

Posted on June 28, 2011 by macromon

Looks like traders, including yours truly, were caught catawampus in a pair of Nike shorts (ouch!),  either not long enough or short, both equities and the Euro, coming into the week, even as some of the short-term signals were turning … Continue reading →

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Textbook Bounce Off the 200-day Moving Average

Posted on June 16, 2011 by macromon

After gyrating much of the day, the S&P500 bounced off the the 200-day moving average (which also coincided with the December 2010 close)  just like a page out of a technical analysis textbook.   The bounce helped rescue Apple from some … Continue reading →

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