How Apple Stock Moves After a New iPhone is Unveiled

The Wall Street Journal took the opportunity this week to suggest taking advantage of any surge in Apple shares to sell. “The new iPhone is sure to shatter previous sales records,” the Journal writes. “It also may prove the moment to dump Apple (AAPL) shares.”

That could be. But for context around the big unveiling, here’s what has happened after prior iPhone introductions.

Apple introduced the first on January 9, 2007 at the Macworld convention:

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Apple announced the iPhone 3GS on June 8, 2009:

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Apple unveiled the iPhone 4 June 7, 2010:

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Apple showed off the iPhone 4S on October 4, 2011:

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