Good friday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. I am Carl Quintanilla with Morgan Brennan and jon fortt at post nine of the New York Stock Exchange record highs across the board as the dow is up 129. Session highs now. Absolutely. Were going to start with apple at fresh highs shares of the tech titan hitting records as three wall street analysts upgrade price targets on the stock mike molson upped his bet on apple from 270 to 290. Dan iefs sees it head for 325, and another raises to 290 from 280. Joining us, dan ives happy friday you too. Quite a run for apple from here, up 38 in the last 12 months, consequently up 30 in the last six months. Those first six months, wasnt doing much, what convinces you, is it mostly the iphone thats got that much more room, 24 or so from here to run . Great question. There are two components to the bull thesis, a lot more fuel in the tank one in terms of iphone 11 and 5g combined, i view it as a super cycle in the next 12 to 18 months we think you have 40
Minute right now what we really want to do is talk about the hp xerox. Did we move that up well talk about that now because hp board unanimously rejected that bid from xerox to take over that company its weird it was like a reverse pacman a much Smaller Company buying a much bigger one. 22 a share is not in the best interest of its shareholders and undervalue hp. Letter to xerox ceo they sited the potential impact of outsized debt levels at the combined companys stock. They left the door open with the possibility of acquiring xerox. Looks like it would be a good deal but well take over you it was strange either way combined company same debt . Potentially it was odd when i was reading through the letters. Xerox saying they lined up what they thought could be financing that citi group could eventually get for them that seem like a couple stretches. We havent got the highly confident letter from the drexel days from citi on that. In the meantime, new this morning, fedex ceo fred smith is
Good monday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. I am Carl Quintanilla with Morgan Brennan and jon fortt we start with a win for microsoft, beating amazon, oracle, ibm in that 10 billion defense contract with the pentagon known as jedi. Morgan has been covering this story from the beginning a lot of news over the weekend. A lot of news over the weekend on this. This was a downright dog fight between microsoft and amazon two years, laden with controversy. What is the joint enterprise defense structure. Theyll unite the u. S. Military within a single data framework, an umbrella cloud for all of the militarys current clouds. Up to 10 Year Contract with ceiling value of 10 billion amazon, microsoft, and earlier in the competition, ibm oracle, even google vying for this microsoft saying we look forward to expanding our Longstanding Partnership with dod, support our men and women in uniform at home and abroad. With our latest unique and differentiated azure cloud capabilities amazon saying were
Good thursday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. I am Carly Fiorina with Morgan Brennan and jon fortt. A busy day of earnings, some tech, some not to sort through today, microsoft, paypal, ebay and others on the tape two biggest movers going the opposite way, tesla is surging, twitter is tanking Julia Boorstin and phil will he be lebeau is with us. This is a stock having a rough day, one of the worst days ever as a public company, on pace for the worst month since july, 2018 shares down almost 19 lower despite growing the user base to 145 million active users. The reason it is tanking, revenue and earnings fell short of expectations as technical issues keep them from Fourth Quarter ads. Jack dorsey looked to reassure investors. Unfortunately we had some missteps in our map ads in july and august despite that, saw strong september results and good advertiser momentum. He stressed the commitment to clean up the platform and eliminate abuse. 2020 elections and integrity of the conversation
Sentiment in about an hour our road map begins with amazons rough quarter, reporting its first yearonyear profit decline in more than two years. Shares down 6 ahead of the bell is now the time for investors to get in plus, turnaround for the chip makers intel delivers a big earnings beat demand far outpacing production. And the case for wealth taxes. What lloyd flablankfein says he be willing to pay higher taxes for. Lets start with amazon, though. Earnings miss, disappointing Holiday Quarter guidance weighing on the stock as the company ramps up spending on oneday shipping amazons earnings release, jeff bezos said, quote, customers love the transition of prime from two days to one day theyve already ordered billions of items with free oneday delivery this year its a big investment, and its the right longterm decision for customers. Weve been down this road before and their track record, jim, historically is pretty good on this yes, i think that theres a perception that they were down