AAPL Drops on Reports from Analysts

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Appleis stock dropped on Monday, erasing recent gains, based on reports from both Banc of Americais securities analyst Scott D. Craig and RBC Capital Markets analyst Mike Abramsky.

In a story at CNN Money on Monday, Scott Craig reduced his target price for AAPL from US$180 to $160 in a note to investors and indicated that production levels for iPods are being cut. His estimate for iPods sold, year over year, for the current quarter, to be down 5 percent. He characterized iPhone production as volatile and reduced his estimate to 1.2 million units.

Mike Abramsky retained his "Outperform" rating for AAPL, but lowered the target price from US$200 to $175. In his note, he cited primarily economic concerns, but also added that Appleis 3G iPhone estimated for release in the summer could rebuild momentum.

AAPL was down $6.52 in afternoon trading to US$118.50.

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In the interest of full disclosure, the author holds a small share in AAPL stock that was not an influence in the creation of this article.

John Martellaro

John Martellaro

John Martellaro was born at an early age and began writing about computers soon after that. He is a former U.S. Air Force officer and has worked for NASA, White Sands Missile Range, Lockheed Martin Astronautics, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Apple. At Apple he worked as a Senior Marketing Manager, a Federal Account Executive and a High Performance Computing manager. His interests include skiing, chess, science fiction and astronomy. You can follow John on Twitter at twitter.com/jmartellaro.

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