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Apple's Services Category Set to Be the Company's Main Revenue Driver Over the Next Five Years
Apple's services revenue is growing at a rapid pace and is on track to be the company's primary revenue driver in the future, according to a note Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty shared with investors this morning (via Business Insider).
Huberty believes that over the course of the next five years, services revenue growth will contribute more than 50 percent of Apple's total revenue growth. ...
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Apple's Stock Price Reaches All-Time High Above $180 After Warren Buffett Praises iPhone Maker
Apple's stock price has established a new all-time high in the company's history, as shares exchanged hands for slightly above the previous record of $180.10 in intraday trading today following several weeks of gains.
AAPL has been on the rise since bottoming out at $150.24 on February 9, one day after the Dow Jones plunged over 1,000 points. The broader selloff in the stock market proved to ...

Apple Expected to Report Highest Revenue in Single Quarter in Company's History
Apple is set to report its earnings results for the first quarter of its 2018 fiscal year at 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time on Thursday.
The quarter reflects Apple's sales between October 1 and December 30 of 2017.
Apple provided the following guidance for the quarter back on November 2:
• revenue between $84 billion and $87 billion
• gross margin between 38 and 38.5 percent
• operating...

Apple is $100 Billion Away From Becoming World's Only Trillion Dollar Company
Apple shares are currently trading for around $175, giving the iPhone maker a market cap of roughly $900 billion. The valuation puts Apple within $100 billion of becoming the world's only trillion dollar company.
Apple shares will have to rise to around the $195 mark for the company to reach a trillion dollar valuation, depending on the rate of its share buybacks, and an increasing number of ...

Transcript of Everything Apple Said About Its Record-Breaking Fourth Quarter Earnings Results
Apple today reported revenue of $52.6 billion and net quarterly profit of $10.7 billion, or $2.07 per diluted share, in the fourth quarter of its 2017 fiscal year.
Apple's CEO Tim Cook and CFO Luca Maestri discussed the results on a conference call today. MacRumors has prepared a complete transcript of the call ahead.
Tim Cook
Good afternoon and thanks to everyone for joining us. As we...

Apple Expected to Report Strong Summer Revenue of $50B+ as Focus Shifts to iPhone X Launch Quarter
Apple is set to report its earnings results for the fourth quarter of its 2017 fiscal year at 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time today.
The fiscal quarter reflects Apple's sales between July 2 and September 30 of 2017.
Apple provided the following guidance for its fourth quarter back on August 1:
• revenue between $49 billion and $52 billion
• gross margin between 37.5 and 38 percent
•...

Wall Street Analyst Says 'Buy the Dip' After Apple's Stock Price Steadily Declines in September
Since hitting an all-time high of $164.94 on September 1, Apple's stock price has steadily declined throughout the month. Apple's closing price of $150.55 on Monday represents a nearly nine percent decline in just under four weeks.
Despite some negativity surrounding the stock, one Wall Street analyst believes the recent skid is a buying opportunity.
"We believe concerns around the...

Apple's Stock Price Rises Above $160 Mark to Set New All-Time High
Apple shares are currently trading for between $161 and $162, eclipsing the $160 mark for the first time ever and setting a new all-time intraday high. The nearly 2 percent rise in Apple's stock price gives the company a market valuation of around $835 billion on its path to becoming a trillion dollar company.
Apple's previous all-time high in intraday trading was $159.75, set after its third...

Apple's Stock Opened at Record of Nearly $160 Per Share With $830 Billion Valuation
Following its June quarter earnings results, which beat Wall Street expectations for both revenue and iPhone sales, Apple's stock opened at an all-time high of $159.52 today. Apple also opened with a market cap of nearly $830 billion, moving it closer to becoming a trillion dollar company.
Investors and analysts alike remain optimistic about the so-called iPhone 8 expected later this year....

Transcript: Here's Everything Tim Cook Said About Apple's Impressive June Quarter Today
Apple today reported revenue of $45.4 billion and net quarterly profit of $8.7 billion, or $1.67 per diluted share, in its fiscal third quarter ended June 24.
Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Luca Maestri discussed the results on a conference call today. MacRumors has prepared a complete transcript of the call ahead.
Tim Cook
Good afternoon, and thanks everyone for joining us. Today, we're proud ...

Apple Expected to Report Second-Best June Quarter Ever Today as Investors Look Ahead to iPhone 8
Apple is set to report its earnings results for the third quarter of its 2017 fiscal year at 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time today.
Apple provided the following guidance for its third quarter on May 2:
• revenue between $43.5 billion and $45.5 billion
• gross margin between 37.5 percent and 38.5 percent
• operating expenses between $6.6 billion and $6.7 billion
• other income/expense of...

Apple Predicted to Become Trillion Dollar Company Within 12 Months
Apple's stock price has declined around 9 percent from its all-time high of $156.10 in May, but Wall Street analyst Brian White believes the recent sell-off represents "yet another buying opportunity" as investors turn their focus to the so-called "iPhone 8" rumored to launch this fall.
White believes Apple remains "among the most underappreciated stocks in the world," according to his...

Apple's Stock Down 8% Since Reaching All-Time High Last Month
Apple shares are currently trading for around $143 after Monday's opening bell, around 3.5 percent lower than Friday's closing price of $148.98.
Apple CEO Tim Cook at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference last week
Apple's stock has dropped around 8 percent since reaching an all-time high of $156.10 on May 12, amid a wider downturn in the stock market. Technology stocks have been hit...

Apple's Stock Price Dips Ahead of WWDC as Analyst Issues Rare Downgrade
Apple shares are trading around 1 percent lower today, just ahead of WWDC 2017, after one analyst issued a rare downgrade of the stock."We are downgrading AAPL to Sector Weight and recommend investors reduce position sizes," said Andy Hargreaves, equity research analyst at Pacific Crest Securities, in a note to clients. "We believe AAPL anticipates strong performance in the iPhone 8 cycle, while...

Bullish Analyst Says Apple Has Potential to Become Trillion Dollar Company Within 18 Months
Apple has the potential to become a trillion dollar company by 2019, according to RBC Capital Markets analyst Amit Daryanani.
In a research note on Monday, Daryanani said Apple could reach or exceed a trillion dollar market cap within the next 12 to 18 months.
An excerpt from Daryanani's research note, edited slightly for clarity:In aggregate, we see a scenario where in the 2019 fiscal...

Apple's Retail Chief Angela Ahrendts and Top Lawyer Bruce Sewell Each Sell Over $10 Million in Stock
Apple's retail chief Angela Ahrendts and top lawyer Bruce Sewell each sold over $10 million in company stock over the past week, according to a pair of disclosures with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Pursuant to her trading plan adopted in February, Ahrendts sold 75,000 shares of Apple stock between May 4 and May 8, netting nearly $11.1 million based on the weighted average sale...

Apple Reaches $800 Billion Valuation On Path to Becoming World's First Trillion Dollar Company
Apple's stock is currently trading above the $153 mark for the first time ever, after factoring in a 7-for-1 split in 2014, giving the company a record-high market cap of roughly $800 billion. That means Apple is within $200 billion of becoming the world's first trillion dollar company.
Google Finance values Apple at closer to the $810 billion mark today, but the tool appears to be...

Apple's Stock Has Already Bounced Back After Earnings Results Slightly Missed Expectations
Apple's stock has recovered from early week losses incurred after the company's earnings results fell slightly below Wall Street expectations.
Apple shares are currently trading for roughly $148, slightly above Tuesday's closing price of $147.51, set just before the company's earnings report. The stock had dropped to as low as $144.27 on Wednesday, but Apple has bounced back since alongside...

Apple Analysts Remain Upbeat Ahead of Expected iPhone X Upgrade Supercycle
Apple reported its second quarter earnings results on Tuesday, highlighted by revenue of $52.9 billion and 50.8 million iPhones sold. Apple said the results met or exceeded its own targets and guidance, but some of the numbers fell slightly short of what most financial analysts were expecting.
Nevertheless, the majority of analysts remain bullish on Apple's stock price heading into the second...

Apple Expected to Report Strong Earnings Today, But Unlikely to Set Record-Breaking Quarter
Apple is set to report its earnings results for the second quarter of its 2017 fiscal year at 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time today.
Apple provided the following guidance for its second quarter on January 31:
• revenue between $51.5 billion and $53.5 billion
• gross margin between 38 percent and 39 percent
• operating expenses between $6.5 billion and $6.6 billion
• other income/expense of...