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Bearish to Bullish Notes on Apple - MOSK: 04.12.2024

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7996 Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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- Barclays Keeps "Sell" Rating and $158 AAPL Target - JPMorgan Cuts Apple Target to $210 - BofA Says Wall Street Keeps Missing Apple Strength in Gross Margins - Apple to Let Repairers Use Used, Paired Parts - Apple TV+ Announces Second Season of "Monarch," Plus Planned Spin-Offs - Spy Comedy "Argylle" Streaming Now on Apple TV+ - Historical Drama Series "Franklin" Starts on Apple TV+ - Sponsored by Manscaped: Get 20% off and free shipping with the code MACOSKEN at manscaped.com - Check Out the Latest Checklist by SecureMac - online at checklist.libsyn.com - Catch Ken on Mastodon - @macosken@mastodon.social - Chat with us in Patreon for as little as $1 a month. Support the show at Patreon.com/macosken - Send me an email: info@macosken.com or call (716)780-4080!

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0:00.0

This is Mac OSKIN.

0:05.0

Notes running from bearish to bullish.

0:08.0

Apple makes notable self-repair change, and Monster News for Apple TV Plus.

0:18.8

It is Friday, the 12th of April, 2024.

0:22.1

I'm Kanray Ray and this is news from Maco-S Ken

0:28.0

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0:41.0

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0:49.0

Find out more and that in your support at Patreon.com slash Maco-S-Can.

0:58.8

With a target of $158, a headline from Apple 3.0 has Barclay's analyst Tim Long still telling clients to sell

1:08.9

Apple. Working from excerpts of a business insider report, the piece says the analyst has

1:14.9

Apple turning in a performance that is equal to or lower than quarters past.

1:20.0

While App Store revenue grew 12% last quarter in his estimation, that's basically the same growth seen the quarter before, meaning growth has plateaued again in his estimation.

1:34.4

He also thinks people are expecting too much in terms of growth for the June quarter.

1:39.8

The best E.C. for iPhone is meeting sales expectations, though he thinks weakness in China may knock

1:46.0

iPhone sales back.

1:48.3

The DOJ's case against Google could end up costing Apple a lot of money related to payments for Google's default search engine position in safari

1:57.9

The report revisits headwinds from China because why not?

2:06.7

The analyst is not expecting much from iPhone 16 neither in terms of design innovation nor differentiated AI applications.

2:13.0

Add all of that together with macroeconomic pressures and elongated replacement cycles,

2:19.0

and the analyst thinks it is time to get out of Apple, leading to the aforementioned cell rating

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