“Apple Inc. results next week will likely show iPhone sales growing again, bucking a year of declines,” Alex Webb reports for Bloomberg. “That’s the good news.”
“The bad news: The average selling price of the handsets in the key holiday quarter ending in late December may show customers settling for older iPhone 6S models, rather than the iPhone 7, introduced in September, according to some analysts,” Webb reports. “‘Recent smartphone customers increasingly are opting for the iPhone 6S,’ Barclays analyst Mark Moskowitz wrote in a note to clients this week as he downgraded his recommendation on Apple stock to hold.”
“Apple is scheduled to report quarterly results on Jan. 31. Analysts currently predict an average selling price, or ASP, of $688 for the iPhone line in the holiday quarter, down from $691 a year earlier, according to estimates compiled by Bloomberg News. That’s even though the iPhone 7 Plus model costs $20 more than the iPhone 6S Plus when it was introduced,” Webb reports. “Apple is likely to have sold about 76 million phones over the holiday quarter, according to the average of analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg News, up from 75 million handsets a year earlier.”
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MacDailyNews Take: You know, because analysts’ Apple estimates are always so on target.
We’ll find out how Apple’s holiday quarter (fiscal Q117) went next Tuesday right around 4:30pm Eastern.
On October 25, 2016, Apple provided the following guidance for Q117:
• revenue between $76 billion and $78 billion
• gross margin between 38 percent and 38.5 percent
• operating expenses between $6.9 billion and $7 billion
• other income/(expense) of $400 million
• tax rate of 26 percentWe plan to cover Apple’s Q117 conference call at 5pm ET on Tuesday, January 31st with live notes as usual. That link will appear on our home page around 4:45pm EDT earnings day.
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Apple to release Q117 earnings, webcast live conference call on January 31st – January 18, 2017
Here’s another analyst trying to tell people about all the the clouds in that silver lining.
For the last few months the analysts have been trying to tell us that iPhone sales were declining but now they’re saying that sales might not be declining after all, but are sure to decline soon and people will be buying cheaper versions instead of flagship models.
Meanwhile Apple continues to earn 100% of the global smartphone profits.
Ya! Sure. Another turd who want its 5 minutes of click writing about Apple. Thank you for reporting what we already know. As for your thoughts, you can shove it where it counts; in your A**!
Get a life Bloomberg. Move on. There is nothing for you at Apple. Go cover the Facebook fiasco, the Google fragmentation or the new FCC chairman or whateva! Less click? For sure!
Check, MDN first and save wasted linkbait time.
Yep, Apple’s iPhone 7 sales will nosedive for sure …when the new iPhone 8 is released.
So sad; to think that sales of the original iPhone are now zero.
The sky has fallen, and we are all now dead; we’ve moved on, and are now ghostly existing in an alternate reality.
Give the guy a break. The poor schlob has to write something, even if it’s meaningless drivel. He’s got a family to feed.
THINK OF THE CHILDREN!
Off-topic: R.I.P. Laura/MTM. You were loved.
Sorry bro,
I am soooooooo tired of lunashiat reporter who can’t be nothing more than a brainless brat vomiting on Apple’s monumental success. Gesh… I am getting tired.