Apple celebrated its traditional annual event last Tuesday, which announces its main technological novelties for the new season. Among others, the iPhone Air that submitted, the smallest phone in its history, and the three updated models of it smartphone; A wide repair of its Apple Watch with a watch with a hypertension detector, as well as a new AirPods Pro 3, with a simultaneous translation. The presentation was wide, but the company must demonstrate that it could attract investors.
At the moment, there is some indifference among analysts about their possible success. Even Apple received after submitting its novelties two sales in the recommendation. Davidson Investment Bank reduced the Apple’s action recommendation to the neutral, after this week’s ads. According to them, they were unable to dissipate doubts in the company’s position in artificial intelligence (AI). The firm noted that it was initially excited about the role of Apple in the AI ecosystem and its update cycle, but in your opinion, none of these two things could be implemented in the short term.
The Phillip Securities also reduced the neutral recommendation to reduce, noting that it supports the careful perspective, partly for the fact that it has no significant innovations in the II, which helps to face constant weakness and the Chinese market.
With these consensus sales, Apple’s recommendations fell to 3.9 out of 5, according to Bloomberg, its lowest level since the beginning of 2020. Only 55 % of analysts that Bloomberg are recommended to buy stocks, a very low percentage compared to other large companies such as NVIDIA, Microsoft and Amazon, which have more than 90 %.
At this time, the average target price of Apple’s stock, according to analysts following the company, is $ 240, with a return potential of 4.4%. Among the most optimistic formations are Argus Research, with $ 280 and TD Cowen, with $ 275.
The company, directed by Tim Cook, started a year with a strong correction on the stock market, though, from the minimum annual price of $ 169, noted in early April, the titles bounced 36%, due to the risks of the possible impact on their tariff accounts. The company has promised to invest about $ 600,000 in the United States in the next four years to strengthen production in its local centers; The lawsuit raised by US President Donald Trump is into the world of business.
Despite everything, Apple has left 8% on the stock market since the beginning of the year, while NASDAQ 100 has increased by 14%, which has canceled Apple Leadership on the stock market, which is now Nvidia ahead of Microsoft.
The next stop will be the presentation of the results of the fourth financial quarter, which ends in late September. During the period from July to September, Apple provides its profits from increasing between the average and high year -on -year numbers. It also provides gross profitability from 46% to 47%, including the influence obtained from the cost of $ 1.1 billion.
In the third quarter, Apple’s revenue increased by 10% to 94,000 million, with 13% iPhone Business growth. The firm has already sold 3000 million units of its popular smartphoneSince launch in 2007.
