Apple, Rackspace, American Tower: Tech Winners & Losers
NEW YORK (
) --
Rackspace
(RAX)
shares were slumping Wednesday after the cloud computing company delivered in-line results for the third quarter.
Rackspace reported
earnings of 19 cents per share on $335.9 million in revenue. Wall Street analysts polled by
Thomson Reuters
were expecting 19 cents per share on $335 million in revenue.
Stifel Nicolaus
raised its price target on the stock to $80 from $65 following the report though, saying it believes Rackspace will continue to grow at a 25% clip for the next few years.
The stock was down nearly 6% to $62.15 in recent trades.
Apple
(AAPL) - Get Report
shares were losing more than 3% as concerns about future product innovation at the company weighed on the stock.
Apple has delivered the largest product refresh in its history in 2012, updating the iPhone, the iPad twice, announcing a slew of new Macs, and coming out with the
as it seeks to
gobble up tablet market share.
The stock was off $18.70 at $561.50 in afternoon action.
Shares of
American Tower
(AMT) - Get Report
and other wireless tower stocks were surging following news that
AT&T
(T) - Get Report
plans to invest $14 billion in its network build-out over the next three years.
The Dow component plans to allocated $8 billion toward wireless initiatives and $6 billion toward its wireline infrastructure.
American Tower shares were tacking on more than 2% to $75.58. Other tower stocks, such as
SBA Communications
(SBAC) - Get Report
and
Crown Castle International
(CCI) - Get Report
were also rising on the news.
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Written by Chris Ciaccia in New York
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