Nam Tai Electronics (NTE): Q4 EPS of $0.80. Revenue of $468.5M (+263% Y/Y). (PR) [View news story]
Great Q4 results. Price looks cheap vs. earnings and potential. Shame on you if you bought today on the back of strong earnings. Unusual activity in share price over the past few weeks .. Look it up. Profit taking or insider play?
Deutsche's U.S. team follows up on an overnight note from the firm's Japanese unit about iPhone production cuts by declaring Apple's (AAPL -2%) stock "has digested this supply chain issue and likely has lower unit production already priced in." Notable Calls is encouraged by this due to the track record of the analyst in question (presumably Chris Whitmore). Apple has bounced a little off its session lows. Cirrus Logic (CRUS -3.8%) and Skyworks (SWKS -2.9%) are faring worse. [View news story]
Earnings season is upon us. It will soon be time for Analysts to stop their manipulation of share price with their latest and greatest reports from "trusted sources". They cannot manipulate earnings reports! Time to shut up for a month
Feltl and Needham offer contrasting opinions on Cirrus Logic (CRUS -10.2%) in response to its FQ2 report and FQ3/FQ4 guidance (I, II, III). Feltl, downgrading to Hold, is worried product mix is contributing to margin pressure, not just Apple. Needham, upgrading to Strong Buy, now thinks Cirrus is getting $3.25 per iPhone thanks to higher iPhone 5 dollar content - that's $0.50 above a prior forecast, and responsible for a surging ASP. Needham believes Apple made up 79% of FQ2 sales. (transcript) [View news story]
Why is Jeff Schreiner @ Feltl the lone doom and gloom merchant on Crus. Is something else at play?
Nam Tai Electronics (NTE): Q4 EPS of $0.80. Revenue of $468.5M (+263% Y/Y). (PR) [View news story]
Deutsche's U.S. team follows up on an overnight note from the firm's Japanese unit about iPhone production cuts by declaring Apple's (AAPL -2%) stock "has digested this supply chain issue and likely has lower unit production already priced in." Notable Calls is encouraged by this due to the track record of the analyst in question (presumably Chris Whitmore). Apple has bounced a little off its session lows. Cirrus Logic (CRUS -3.8%) and Skyworks (SWKS -2.9%) are faring worse. [View news story]
Feltl and Needham offer contrasting opinions on Cirrus Logic (CRUS -10.2%) in response to its FQ2 report and FQ3/FQ4 guidance (I, II, III). Feltl, downgrading to Hold, is worried product mix is contributing to margin pressure, not just Apple. Needham, upgrading to Strong Buy, now thinks Cirrus is getting $3.25 per iPhone thanks to higher iPhone 5 dollar content - that's $0.50 above a prior forecast, and responsible for a surging ASP. Needham believes Apple made up 79% of FQ2 sales. (transcript) [View news story]