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Did Google’s earnings gaffe spook Wall Street on tech stocks?

Thursday, October 18, 2012 · 4:01 pm · 18 Comments

“Close to midday on Thursday, Google’s financial printing partner, RR Donnelly, published the search giant’s earnings release draft hours before it was supposed to,” Mike Isaac writes for AllThingsD. “The result: Shares of Google dropped sharply and almost instantly by nearly 75 points, with the unexpected gaffe only compounding the fact that Google missed its quarterly expectations.”

“But the company wasn’t alone,” Isaac writes. “Major Internet company stocks slumped across the board on the news. As of 2:30 pm ET, LinkedIn shares were down 2.5 percent, joined by Amazon, whose shares dropped three points… Apple, too, dropped 11 points, close to a 2 percent drop overall.”

Read more in the full article here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Rainy Day" for the heads up.]

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18 Comments

Jersey_Trader

Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 4:18 pm · Reply

Idiots. I see GM when up 2% and Apple went down about 2%. Try to take that in. Apple sells everything they can get made at a great profit. GM is in debt, over manufactured crap electric cars that no one wants even with a $10,000 gift from Obama, can’t turn a profit, sales are down around the world, … and their stock goes up 2%.

Clueless Delusional Idiots.
- tbone
  
  Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 4:49 pm · Reply
  
  Which GM are you referring to? The auto company has fine stable financials.
- tbone
  
  Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 4:51 pm · Reply
  
  25.56 +0.50 (2.00%)
  After Hours: 25.50 -0.06 (-0.23%)
  Oct 18, 4:40PM EDT
  NYSE real-time data – Disclaimer
  Currency in USD
  Range 24.96 – 25.72
  52 week 18.72 – 27.68
  Open 25.09
  Vol / Avg. 9.74M/9.10M
  Mkt cap 40.03B
  P/E 9.11
  Div/yield -
  EPS 2.80
  Shares 1.57B
  Beta -
  Inst. own 35%
  
  maintaining a position worldwide as a stables company. Many workers employed here. Government made money on the so-called bailout. You are an idiot. Go suck on the teat of mitt&paul. Clueless asshole.
  - Savage
    
    Friday, October 19, 2012 - 11:32 am · Reply
    
    Yes go fuk yourself
Jersey_Trader

Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 4:26 pm · Reply

What does Google really have to do with Apple? Advertising? Apple really has nothing to do with their market (yet). Android … it is a FREE OS. People put these two in the same markets and they really have very little to do with income from the same customers. All I can say is Google gives away crap that interferes with Apple’s market. That is it.

Everyone knows Google is having problems making money on surfers using hand held devices. Apple can’t make enough of them and earns billions of profit selling them.

Why are they the same? Idiots!
Foris

Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 4:27 pm · Reply

All tech stocks? This is Google’s problem! Savvy analysts have been saying for ages that search is vulnerable, and now the chickens are coming home to roost. Hell, Apple is cutting Google out of iOS, so is a factor in this. And AAPL can only go up on GOOG’S bad news.
- GM
  
  Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 6:54 pm · Reply
  
  Google is evil. But not stupid. They will do just fine. Could you run it better? No. Me either. In case you haven’t looked, their stock price is still higher than Apple. And it will be back over 700 before too long. As will Apple. There’s Google and then there’s Apple. They are nothing alike. Both are giants in the industry and will stay that way. Search and advertising is not about to go away. That’s the reason Apple is trying to get into it themselves. Just watch.
  - Derek Currie
    
    Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 7:25 pm · Reply
    
    I could run Google better! They obviously have PR people who require the firing squad. They also have a deeply ingrained subculture of IMITATION (vs innovation). We know what that leads to, hello Microsoft scum.
    
    Google is REQUIRED to proceed with the same mind set that created the Google search engine: Nothing but the best and beyond!
    
    Right now Google is accelerating its tripping and falling into Face Plant Mode. That has to stop if they want a rational future.
    
    Where did I put my whips and chains?
    - Derek Currie
      
      Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 7:29 pm · Reply
      
      BTW: ‘Nothing but the best and beyond!’©®™… ; -Derek Currie
      - GM
        
        Friday, October 19, 2012 - 7:19 am · Reply
        
        Your opinion certainly is credible? Please tell us all again how the Mac Mini is not coming……………………. C’mon, let’s hear some more from you . BTW : “Nothing but the best and beyond”
        
        Derek Currie
        
        Friday, October 19, 2012 - 4:45 pm · Reply
        
        GM, just give it up. You keep tripping over reality and doing a face plant. Not good for you buddy.
        
        Mac Mini: Already exists since 2006.
        
        You meant to say: ‘iPad Mini’, correct?
        
        As I’ve been jovially saying all week: I’m keeping my mouth shut about this vacuumware as I don’t want to jinx it in case some tiny shred of evidence of its existence comes into the public light and Apple really does bring one to market.
        
        It could happen! If it does, I wish Apple well. But I would still have to point out that the ‘market’ for ~7″ OtherPads consists mainly of subsidized hardware from Amazon and Google. IOW: It nothing more than these two lame companies buying market share.
        
        Any actual ~7″ iPad ‘Mini’ would be CREATING a new market, one with no real competitors thus far.
        
        GM
        
        Saturday, October 20, 2012 - 10:40 am · Reply
        
        You are correct. An anomaly. I have owned Mac Minis since the day they were first offered. But as for doing a face plant, that’s your specialty. Again, I remind everyone that you have said forever that there will be no iPad mini. Now suddenly you’re on board! Nice try. And oh, you can say whatever you want but it won’t jinx the iPad mini. You are influential only in your own world. What will you try next TROLL?
        
        Derek Currie
        
        Saturday, October 20, 2012 - 11:38 pm ·
        
        And yet there you are doing your usual routine on not reading what anyone writes and replying with absurdities and hate. Here have some more troll numnums:
        
        You’re illiterate. Does that taste good? Yummy yum!
  - Zeke
    
    Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 11:12 pm · Reply
    
    “In case you haven’t looked, their stock price is still higher than Apple.”
    
    And this means what? Apple has 3 times the capitalization. The dollar price per share is not comparable.
    
    Google will not remain the search giant that it is now. There’s nothing to prevent Apple from entering the search field, and they already have with Siri. They are already taking revenue from Google by eliminating Google as a default search app on 100M mobile devices. The snowball is just starting to roll.
John

Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 4:27 pm · Reply

I love how they say it dropped 10 points ,its not points its dollars.
Positive Benn

Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 4:57 pm · Reply

If Apple had split 10 for one the stock would have been down $1.20…..it’s all relative and no big deal. It hurts the option traders and short term holders only.
Michael

Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 5:21 pm · Reply

Apple’s archival loses misses and APPL, one of the reasons it misses, suffers. Genius!
Derek Currie

Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 7:19 pm · Reply

Apple, too, dropped 11 points, close to a 2 percent drop overall.

Yeah, that made sense. Thus my term: DayTraderTards

The stock market: A game of herding sheeple.