Bill Shope

Goldman Sachs: This Is the Beginning of a Big Year for Apple

John Paczkowski in News on April 18 at 11:39 am PT

Apple’s recent Wall Street losing streak hasn’t shaken Goldman Sachs’ faith in the company in the slightest.

Goldman: iPad + Slowing Economy = Lousy PC Sales

Arik Hesseldahl in News on October 14, 2011 at 7:49 am PT

Apple’s iPad continues to maul the market for conventional PCs, making life ever more difficult for the companies that make them.

iPhone 4S: It’s the Software, Stupid.

John Paczkowski in Mobile on October 5, 2011 at 3:20 am PT

Though it might seem more incremental upgrade than new iPhone, Wall Street analysts say Apple’s iPhone 4S isn’t nearly the disappointment that some claim.

Apple Had 186 iPhone Carriers at the End of March; Now It Has 200

John Paczkowski in Mobile on June 6, 2011 at 3:00 am PT

IPhone sales are likely to remain strong regardless of how late or how soon Apple brings the next version of the device to the market this year.

Another Analyst Sees Apple Padding Its Huge Tablet Lead

John Paczkowski in Mobile on May 13, 2011 at 12:35 pm PT

Apple CEO Steve Jobs says 2011 will be the year of the iPad and he may well be right. Despite the dizzying array of tablets announced at CES earlier this year, there’s still a dearth of non-iPad iPad-class tablets. With little in the way of competition, it’s looking likely the Pad will continue to dominate the tablet market this year and next.

Apple Analysts: Screw Everything, Everything, We're Doing $550

John Paczkowski in Mobile on January 20, 2011 at 3:00 am PT

Evidently a 78 percent net income increase in Apple’s fiscal first quarter was all it took for the market to put aside concerns about CEO Steve Jobs’s indefinite medical leave. Analysts following the company issued a fusillade of bullish notes celebrating the company’s leviathan quarter and raising their guidance for the year ahead. The most bullish target price of all: $550.

Forecast: 19 Million Notebooks Lost to Tablet Cannibalization (Meaning iPad) in 2011

John Paczkowski in News on December 15, 2010 at 3:30 am PT

If the tablet PC (which has so far been defined by the iPad) isn’t entirely the notebook cannibal it’s often seen as, it certainly has some cannibalistic tendencies. And those are growing stronger as devices like the iPad begin finding more traction among the production-oriented users that were expected to ignore them.

With iPad, Apple Will Claim 12 Percent of PC Market in 2011

John Paczkowski in News on December 13, 2010 at 11:50 am PT

Some 54.7 million tablets will be sold next year and of those, 37.2 million will be iPads. That’s the forecast from Goldman Sachs’s Bill Shope, who says exploding sales of the device may well make Apple “one of the largest vendors in the global personal computing market.”

HP Beats Estimates, Raises Outlook

John Paczkowski in News on February 17, 2010 at 1:50 pm PT

“Hewlett-Packard is our favorite name for this next batch of earnings reports,” Credit Suisse analyst Bill Shope wrote in a research note published last week. Today we found out why. After market close, the tech bellwether posted financials that exceeded analysts’ estimates.