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It's Monday the 25th of January 2016 I'm Ken Ray and this is news from Maco-esque and

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We're about 36 hours away from Apple's first quarter fiscal year 2016 earnings report as well as guidance

for the current quarter. While Apple's into more revenue streams than one could comfortably

wade in a day, all attention will be focused on iPhone sales. One analyst says he thinks

iPhone sales will be better in the March quarter than most of his contemporaries.

Barons had Stephen's had Stephen Nicholas analyst Aaron Rakers issuing a note last week saying he's looking for iPhone

sales in the low 50 million units range versus consensus estimate in the mid

40s. Honestly the pieces of his note published were so convoluted, I had a bit of trouble following

them.

Basically, though, he thinks that even if iPhone sales fall off a cliff, they won't fall

as far as the mid-40s.

Even assuming a significantly below historical sequential trends for the first quarter of 2016

still leaves us at a low 50 million sell-through estimate for the first quarter of 2016 wrote the analyst.

The first quarter he's referring to being the March quarter, which is the second quarter of

Apple's fiscal year.

Rakers has a buy rating on Apple's shares and a price target of

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