Apple reports its September quarter earnings tonight after the market closes. However, the key to the stock price will be the December quarter guidance. Given that Apple guides below consensus most of the time, I think anything close to consensus of $10.57 billion in revenue and $1.65 in EPS will be well received. Obviously, the […]
Listed below is my live commentary which was posted on RealMoney.com from last night on Apple from before and during the conference call. Without reviewing analyst commentary from the morning after I’d add a couple of things. On September quarter guidance, the gross margin would be the lowest since December Q 2006. The operating margin […]
I expect less positive surprise than usual for Apple when they report June quarter earnings tonight. But barring a major blowout or an unexpected miss, it is the guidance for the next quarter that will determine the immediate action in the stock price. Apple has a history of guiding below street estimates and then beating […]
Apple reported excellent 2Q08 results with revenues and EPS exceeding estimates. Guidance is good by Apple standards with revenues above street estimates and EPS just 10 cents below the street. Analysts and investors will pick apart the numbers and conference call commentary but the bottom line is that this quarter, the conference call, and the […]
Here is the series of posts I made on RealMoney.com yesterday after crunching Apple’s numbers but before the conference call Q&A started: 4:49 PM EST: Good and and I like the guidance being in line with consensus. Tax rate was low adding 4 cents to EPS. That probably is why the stock has pulled back. […]
Apple reports 2Q08 earnings after the close on Wednesday, April 23rd. I’ll be covering the conference call for RealMoney.com. Here is the preview I wrote for them which was published today: Before Tuesday’s shellacking I was planning to say that the sharp upward move in Apple shares had raised the bar unrealistically high heading into […]
Apple has staged a strong recovery, rising 33% from its 2008 intraday low in late February. The beta effect during the recent rally certainly has helped but continuing good news on Mac sales and speculation over the 3G iPhone have been equally responsible. A long-time friend and institutional salesperson, JK, recently IM”d me noting that […]
I’ve been reading up on the phenomenon of the missing iPhones and the only thing I can conclude is they might all have been at Sundance. Honestly, it seemed every line we were standing in had multiple iPhones in use. I know that speaks more to where Apple has mindshare than anything else, but I […]
In my Apple (AAPL) earnings summary on Tuesday, I said there were enough issues to prevent the stock from staging a quick rebound. Those issues don’t justify the type of decline we saw yesterday (down big intraday), but the stock is overowned, and as Jim Cramer pointed out, the big money is rotating away from […]
I am not going to recap all the numbers from Apple as you can read that elsewhere. The December quarter was very good but not without issues. Mac and iPod sales came in a little below aggressive estimates. This was easily made up by better than expected ASPs. A bigger issue will be that US […]
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