Comments on: Handicapping Apple’s Q312 revenue and earnings

By: Obvious

Obvious — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 10:58:05 +0000

They dump stock when it’s price is high, thus forcing prices to fall (panic syndrome) then buy stock back at the lower price, making money in between the sell price and the buy back price.

It’s called manipulating the market

By: eldernorm

eldernorm — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 03:55:08 +0000

Quote Gilda, “Nevermind!”

LOL

By: Amex

Amex — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 03:24:33 +0000

And how do they do that?
Dumping and buying and the same time.

By: LCK

LCK — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 01:34:06 +0000

It’s not Apple stock, it’s the ‘pro’ ANALysts that get clobbered quarter after quarter.

By: silverhawk1

silverhawk1 — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 23:42:51 +0000

I see the hedge funds are up to their normal dump for profit and buy ahead of the blowout quarterly statement.

By: Tetrachloride

Tetrachloride — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 23:09:01 +0000

The goal of we independent analysts is to call the analysts on the carpet for their misleading information. We post our estimates before the analysts do. They copy us and adjust up right before earnings. The value of the work of the independents is worth tens of billions in market cap.

By: Tflint

Tflint — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 21:59:06 +0000

Apple Stock has been ” clobbered quarter after quarter” ? On what planet?

By: Jeff iI

Jeff iI — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 21:32:27 +0000

I’d really like to know exactly how Apple can “do something” about what analysts write and speak about in the run-up to the earnings report. I agree that the entire analyst industry is clueless but perhaps they know better than I how to manipulate the market so they make money on the report. There’s probably no money to be made if they do the same with Google.

I think the SEC should be the outfit that reins in the way these idiots spew forth their collective nonsense and how their “analyses” harm publicly-traded firms and their stockholders’ stakes. It’s truly criminal what they do.

By: Laughing_Boy48

Laughing_Boy48 — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 21:09:01 +0000

It seems rather stupid to have that many analysts picking apart Apple stock and yet they still can’t tell investors what direction Apple shares are headed on earnings. Those numbers are all over the place from low to high. Useless information. I think the independent analysts should be doing something more useful with their spare time.

Google didn’t have nearly the media fanfare before earnings that Apple has. No need for a bazillion analysts putting the company under a microscope. No cause for pre-earnings agitation for shareholders. Google handily beat their numbers, the share price got a healthy pop, end of happy story for Google shareholders.

Apple seriously needs to do something about useless media pre-earnings coverage. Too many clueless analysts trying to write their own Apple story based on misinformation.