{"id":20926,"date":"2013-01-15T16:56:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T15:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/zerohedge\/feed\/~3\/Kdi34BjRYfk\/story01.htm"},"modified":"2013-01-15T16:56:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T15:56:14","slug":"widest-discrepancy-ever-between-aapl-reality-and-analyst-hopium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/widest-discrepancy-ever-between-aapl-reality-and-analyst-hopium\/","title":{"rendered":"Widest Discrepancy Ever Between AAPL Reality And Analyst Hopium"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>With price-targets now apparently nothing more than a &#8216;talking-point&#8217;, it is, perhaps, of little surprise that the <strong>gap between the average sell-side analyst&#8217;s price target for AAPL and the current price is the widest it has ever been<\/strong>. And of course, the &#8216;buys&#8217; versus &#8216;sells&#8217; has not budged at all&#8230; for your reading pleasure, the 50 analysts&#8217; price targets for AAPL&#8230; and the <strong>two non-lemmings<\/strong> (Per Lindberg and Edward Zabitsky) that see potential downside for AAPL.<\/p>\n<p>Average price target (orange) vs price (black)- and the difference (lower pane)&#8230; Evidently the number of &#8216;buys&#8217; versus &#8216;sells&#8217; has hardly budged&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com\/?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fimages%2Fuser3303%2Fimageroot%2F2013%2F01%2F20130115_AAPLANR.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2013\/01\/20130115_AAPLANR_0.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"318\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>with Topeka proudly clinging to their $1111 price target (talking point)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com\/?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fimages%2Fuser3303%2Fimageroot%2F2013%2F01%2F20130115_AAPLANR1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2013\/01\/20130115_AAPLANR1.jpg\" width=\"504\" height=\"824\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Data: Bloomberg<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"fivestar-static-form-item form-item\"><label>Average:<\/label><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"user-rating\">Your rating: <span>None<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"average-rating\">Average: <span>5<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"total-votes\">(<span>3<\/span> votes)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With price-targets now apparently nothing more than a &#8216;talking-point&#8217;, it is, perhaps, of little surprise that the gap between the average sell-side analyst&#8217;s price target for AAPL and the current price is the widest it has ever been. And of course, t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}