Apple found her groove again.
The share of the iPhone maker was 133.82 dollars in early trading on Monday, which made Apple less than one dollar than its trading during the day $ 134.54, reached in April 2015. Apple shares per day ended with $ 133.29, overcoming its previous price in $ 133, which was identified in February 2015.
Increased shares, pay apple ((Aapl)) To 700 billion dollars on the market, comes amid the renewed optimism of the iPhone.
Goldman Sachs raised its target price on Monday, noting the possibility of “major new features” such as “3D Sensing” that is added to the following iPhone, according to an investor memo offered to CNNMoney.
The highest level of Apple was set six months after its launch on iPhone 6 and 6 Plus Design Described As “the mother of all promotions”.
Since then, Apple has imitated it to repair iPhone every year. The latest models on the market today looks almost identical to the iPhone devices available in late 2014.
The long wait, along with this year, which represents the tenth anniversary of the iPhone, only expects Apple is about to greatly repair its smartphone and request it.
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The annual Apple sales decreased in the 2016 fiscal year for the first time since 2001, when IPhone sales, the majority of their business, have decreased in three consecutive quarters.
Apple has reduced the salaries of the CEO by 15 % due to the company’s failure to achieve its performance goals for both sales and profits.
But this loss has just ended.
Apple sales began to grow again in the quarter -month of December, driven by the strongest demand for iPhone – especially on the largest and most expensive iPhone 7 Plus.
The company sold 78.3 million iPhone devices for a quarter, leasing a new record. At least, some may be due to the problems of calling the smartphone in Samsung.
“It is possible that Samsung’s Note 7 has helped,” William Blair’s analyst, Mark Masskovic, wrote in an investor’s investor.
iPhone is not the only reason that Wall Street is excited by Apple. There is also President Trump.
Although Trump collides with Apple during the campaign, investors are now optimistic, Apple will benefit from Trump’s at least one: Reducing taxes on cash that American companies return from their external accounts.
Apple currently owns $ 230 billion in foreign accounts. If Trump and Congress make the Apple to return money, it can be used for acquisitions and re -purchases.
CNNMoney (New York) It was first published on February 13, 2017: 12:24 pm East time