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Chicago, IL – October 21, 2009 – Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include: Apple Inc. (AAPL), China Unicom (CHU), Nokia (NOK), Research In Motion (RIMM) and Palm Inc. (PALM).

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Here are highlights from Tuesday’s AnalystBlog:

Apple: 2nd Highest Growth Ever

Apple Inc. (AAPL) released Snow Leopard, the latest upgrade to the Apple Mac operating system in the quarter. In addition, Apple announced new upgrades to its iTunes and the iPod digital media players at a media event in Sep. The company plans to

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Fourth-Quarter Results Beat Apple Inc. (AAPL) fourth-quarter beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.43 in earnings per share and $9.19 billion in revenue. Earnings in the quarter were $1.82 per share, which also surpassed the company’s own guidance. This increased 44% from $1.26 per share reported in the year-ago period. Strong earnings were due to higher sales in the quarter, which increased 25% to $9.87 billion, representing the second highest revenue growth in the company’s history. The tremendous revenue growth was due to higher iPhone sales and increased Mac shipments in the quarter. Apple continues to gain market share in the three major hardware sectors – computers (with very significant gains in portables), music players and smartphones. Apple's revenue increased in every region, including the U.S. and Europe. The company is currently benefiting from a positive mix shift to the higher-margin iPhones/iPod business from its ...

For Immediate Release

Chicago, IL – October 16, 2009 – Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include: Apple Inc. (AAPL), Microsoft (MSFT), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), Research In Motion (RIMM) and Palm (PALM).

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Here are highlights from Thursday’s Analyst Blog:

Raising Price Target on Apple

Apple Inc. (AAPL) sold 5.2 million iPhones in the June quarter, representing a 626.0% unit growth over the year-ago quarter. In the current quarter the company released Snow Leopard, the latest upgrade to Apple's OS X operating system. In addition, Apple announced new upgrades

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Apple Inc. (AAPL) is set to release its earnings on Oct. 19. We expect the company to report strong results for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2009, and therefore raise our price target to $200. Apple has undergone a total turnaround. The first nine months of 2009 is evidence of this trend, as both revenue and earnings exhibited growth, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate and the company’s own guidance. For the fourth quarter of 2009, Apple expects revenue in the range of $8.7 – $8.9 billion. Earnings are expected to be in the range of $1.18 – $1.23 per share. This compares to earnings of $1.26 per share on sales of $7.9 billion during the fourth quarter of 2008.   Although the company provided a cautious guidance, we expect it to post upbeat results. The Zacks Consensus Estimate EPS of $1.42 on revenue of $9.2 billion ...

div style="text-align: justify;"span style="font-weight: bold;"Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL)/span is getting lots of positive analyst commentary following results out last night.br /br /Here are some of the highlight:br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"- Deutsche Bank is raising their target to $225 from $150 noting /spaniPhone shipments of 5.2M beat their model (DB at 5.0M) with robust demand outstripping supply. The iPhone remains immensely profitable (est. 60% GM) as it added an incremental $0.79 in EPS in the Q on a pro-forma basis (adjusting for subscription accounting). Further, Apple will extend the geographic reach of the iPhone from 18 to 80 countries by the end of the Sept Q, greatly expanding its addressable market. Further, the firm believes Apple is on track to partner with China Unicom as early as this Fall. As a result, they raise their CY09 iPhone unit estimate from 23M units to 26M (Sept Q increased from 6M to 8.5M).br /br ...