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Goldman Sachs is putting its mouth where Apple's money is.

Forbes has Goldman analyst Bill Schope reiterating his buy rating on Apple shares and raising his Apple price target.

Quoting the show note, despite recent volatility, we continue to believe Apple shares are very attractive at current levels.

It remains our top pick and we'd be buyers ahead of March quarter results. We expect

solid March quarter upside which is likely to trigger healthy increases in

iPhone, iPad and overall earnings expectations for the full year.

In addition, we believe recent investor concern over a catalyst light June quarter are misguided

since this will be the first full quarter with a refreshed iPad, a lower priced iPad too,

and a fully ramped iPhone distribution channel.

In other words, the June quarter is when many of the recent catalysts begin to fully manifest into earnings power.

With that, the analyst ups his Apple target from $700 to $750 U.S.

Barclays capital analyst Ben Reitzus says anyone thinking of getting out of Apple's

share should probably reconsider.

A separate Forbes piece has the analyst saying investors should hold on to the stock because there's a new iPhone

coming and that tends to goose Apple's share price. Not just the new iPhone, the approach of the new iPhone.

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