{"id":5060,"date":"2026-07-08T07:09:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T07:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/07\/08\/josh-brown-taps-apple-as-ais-sleeping-giant-projects-400-stock-target\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T07:09:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T07:09:32","slug":"josh-brown-taps-apple-as-ais-sleeping-giant-projects-400-stock-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/07\/08\/josh-brown-taps-apple-as-ais-sleeping-giant-projects-400-stock-target\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Brown Taps Apple as AI&#8217;s &#8216;Sleeping Giant,&#8217; Projects $400 Stock Target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ritholtz Management CEO Josh Brown identifies Apple as the &#8220;sleeping giant&#8221; of AI, poised to dominate by leveraging its 2 billion-plus user base through premium AI features via iCloud+ subscriptions. He predicts Apple shares could surge to $400, representing a 28% upside, driven by its unique monetization strategy, upcoming foldable iPhone, and recovering China sales. Brown&#8217;s bullish stance positions Apple as the top Magnificent 7 stock for the latter half of 2026.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/04\/28\/josh-brown-likes-this-sleeping-giant-ai-play-and-magnificent-7-member.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE FROM CNBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ritholtz Management CEO Josh Brown identifies Apple as the &#8220;sleeping giant&#8221; of AI, poised to dominate by leveraging its 2 billion-plus user base through premium AI features via iCloud+ subscriptions. He predicts Apple shares could surge to $400, representing a 28% upside, driven by its unique monetization strategy, upcoming foldable iPhone, and recovering China sales. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108327023-1782412816890-gettyimages-2283305840-anotherday231781947_vxyezz3d.jpeg?v=1782412889&w=1920&h=1080","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","category-technology","rifnote_country-china","rifnote_executive-josh-brown"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108327023-1782412816890-gettyimages-2283305840-anotherday231781947_vxyezz3d.jpeg?v=1782412889&w=1920&h=1080","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}