“Apple Computer Inc. will claim the earnings spotlight after the market closes Wednesday as the Macintosh and iPod maker delivers its second-quarter results,” Rex Crum reports for MarketWatch. “Apple will, as usual, tout the success of its market-leading iPod media players. During the quarter, Apple released a new 1-gigabyte version of its iPod Nano player, and cut prices on its iPod Shuffle. Analysts estimate Apple will report iPod sales of 8 million to 9 million units, which would be an increase of between 51% and almost 70% compared with the 5.3 million iPods it sold a year ago.”
“The average estimate of analysts surveyed by Thomson First Call puts Apple earnings at 43 cents a share on $4.54 billion in revenue for the latest quarter. A year ago, Apple earned 34 cents a share on revenue of $3.24 billion,” Crum reports. “While it won’t have any impact on Apple’s results, during the quarter, the company took what is seen as a major step toward increasing its PC market share with the launch of Boot Camp, a free application that allows Microsoft Corp.’s Windows XP operating system to run on the Mac. Apple said it will include Boot Camp as a standard when it launches Leopard, its next operating system upgrade, later this year.”
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All signs point to average.
MW=show. As in show me the money.
Apple’s stock is likely to go higher regardless of the results because no matter what the result is, the fact is, it will show the company in a ” GROWING PHASE “
blah blah blah
AAPL is gonna drop… trust me… just have to read AAPL right 2 days before a earning report, or new product release….
but long turn: theres only one way, UP!!!
I only own 1 share, i am not worried all that much.
I am, I have 1 share also plus 99,999 more.
-pops-
If you bought into Apple Inc. this time last year, then you’re set for good to great long term growth with Apple. Just my opnion of course.
I ACTUALLY BOUGHT AT $67 AFTER THE NEWS AND SOLD IT ALL AT $69 BECAUSE THE REVENUE FELL SHORT OF WALL STREET EXPECTATIONS, NOONE HAS READ THAT PORTION YET!!
your up a 315k in aftermarket as a write this…
would those be champagne “pops”
congrats… i’m all-in w/ aapl too (and happy to be so)
MDN word: s t r o n g (u betcha)