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Evercore analyst Amadarianani has raised his price target on Apple shares.

It's not shocking that he would do that specifically,

but given current tumult in the market

and last week's weakness for ticker symbol AAPL,

any price target increase is somewhat surprising.

I seriously had to check to make sure that this was a current story. But yeah,

Apple 3.0 says it is. That site posted part of a note, Daryanani wrote, wherein he argued

that people are paying too much attention to iPhone and too little attention to other stuff Apple

can do and keeps doing to make money.

While investors overindex on iPhone growth, wrote the analyst,

we think there is less of a focus on Apple's ability to keep growing earnings per share

and free cash flow growth consistently.

That's thanks to a number of factors, including Apple's enviable gross margin,

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