{"id":19228,"date":"2024-01-11T11:56:54","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T08:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/19228\/downgrades-to-apples-shares-leaves\/"},"modified":"2024-01-11T11:56:55","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T08:56:55","slug":"downgrades-to-apples-shares-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=19228","title":{"rendered":"Downgrades to Apple&#8217;s shares leaves another tech firm ready to become top U.S. public company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Downgrades to Apple&#8217;s shares leaves another tech firm ready to become top U.S. public company\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>Apple is the most valuable publicly traded American company in the world, with a valuation of $2.9 trillion.  But recently, Wall Street hasn&#39;t been very positive about Apple.  On the first trading day of the new year, Barclay analyst Tim Long said there was nothing compelling about the <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/iphone\/\"   title=\"iPhone\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">iPhone<\/a> 16 series that could reverse what he sees as a downward trend of iPhone demand.  As a result, he changed his rating on the company&#39;s shares to &#8220;Underweight&#8221; while lowering the price target from $161 to $160.<\/div>\n<div>As ridiculous as it sounds, this is a code used on Wall Street that tells institutional traders to sell Apple.  Nobody likes to say &#8220;sell&#8221; because Wall Street companies fear it will disrupt the business &#8211; in this case, Apple &#8211; and cost them business when Apple needs a money-banking company. investment to sell more shares or help with a takeover.  Piper Sandler followed, with analyst Harsh Kumar cutting his rating on Apple to neutral.<\/div>\n<div>The hat trick ended Wednesday morning when Redburn Atlantic&#39;s James Cordwell also downgraded Apple to neutral, but he kept his price target at $200.  He cut his rating on Apple due to concerns about declining iPhone sales, combined with concerns about regulatory agencies in the U.S. and abroad going after the <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/app\/\"   title=\"App\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">App<\/a> Store.  Year to date, Apple shares have fallen 91 cents, or 0.49%, to $186.19.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"gallery-97555962-6747-43db-bdf6-bc935584f9d3\" class=\"single-image-container  image-c\" style=\"width:1026px;max-width:100%\">\n<div class=\"gallery-item\">\n<picture style=\"padding-top: 62.280701754386%\"><source media=\"(max-width: 350px)\" ><source media=\"(min-width: 351px) and (max-width: 500px)\" ><source media=\"(min-width: 501px) and (max-width: 800px)\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Downgrades-to-Apples-shares-leaves-another-tech-firm-ready-to.jpg\" alt=\"Microsoft could soon overtake Apple to become the most valuable U.S. publicly traded company.  Apple&#39;s Stock Downgrade Leaves Another Tech Company Poised to Become America&#39;s First Public Company\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n<\/div>\n<p>Microsoft could soon overtake Apple to become the most valuable publicly traded US company<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Analysts&#39; lack of love for Apple has allowed Microsoft to overtake Apple as the most valuable publicly traded U.S. company.  Including the $7 that Microsoft added to its stock price on Wednesday, Microsoft shares are up $9 or 2.41% year to date.  This rally brought Microsoft&#39;s market capitalization (or stock price times the number of shares outstanding) to $2.84 trillion.  Microsoft is worth about $600 million less than Apple and has the momentum it needs to topple Apple from its precarious position atop the valuation charts.<\/p>\n<div>Over the past year, Microsoft shares have risen $147, or 62.4%, to $382.77.  Apple shares have risen $52.70 or 39.5% over the past year and closed Wednesday at $186.19 in regular trading.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Downgrades to Apple&#8217;s shares leaves another tech firm ready to become top U.S. public company\u060c Apple is the most valuable publicly traded American company in the world, with a valuation of $2.9 trillion. But recently, Wall Street hasn&#39;t been very positive about Apple. On the first trading day of the new year, Barclay analyst Tim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19229,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1068,3608,9032,6413,2412,4134,857,4263,515,357,802],"class_list":["post-19228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-apples","tag-company","tag-downgrades","tag-firm","tag-leaves","tag-public","tag-ready","tag-shares","tag-tech","tag-top","tag-u-s"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19230,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19228\/revisions\/19230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}