“Barclays Capital‘s Ben Reitzes this afternoon reiterates an Overweight rating on shares of Apple (AAPL) and a $750 price target, writing that his counterparts are cutting estimates for the company for the June-ended fiscal Q3 even though investors have already arrived at what he thinks are more reasonable expectations,” Tiernan Ray reports for Barron’s. “‘In terms of the iPhone, our checks indicate that some of the fears could be overblown,’ writes Reitzes.”
Ray reports, “Specifically, Reitzes is modeling $36 billion in revenue and EPS of $9.62, which is below the consensus estimate for $37.63 billion and $10.37 per share. Reitzes bases his estimate on expected sales of 27 million units of the iPhone, 4.5 million Mac units, 6.5 million iPods, and sales of 14.2 million iPads, which could actually be higher by a couple million units, given sales of the lower-priced iPad 2 into educational institutions.”
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MacDailyNews Note: On April 24, 2012, Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer gave Q312 guidance of “revenue of about $34 billion” and “diluted earnings per share of about $8.68.”
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So again they are lining up to create another fake “miss” hysteria?
What’s the difference between “guidance” and “forecast?”
Superstition.
The company provides “guidance” for its future earnings, then analysts provide their independent “forecasts.”
For the stock to pop when earnings are announced, results need to beat the forecasts, not just guidance.
As if anyone can trust a word BarCap ever say again. You’ve been busted fellas.
What they really want you to think, is: “Barclays scandal, no big deal.”
Barclays’ Diamond accused of misleading inquiry [reuters]
Yup Barclays have shown that you cannot believe what they say. Still to be honest that is true of all of the financial organizations. Barclays just got caught that’s all.
What should be expected is that Apple will beat their own guidance handily. By how much? I would rather believe the independent trackers than anyone from a financial institution.
You will be looking at high $11 or low $12 per share ……
If Apple comes in anywhere above last quarter, this stock runs up $100, easy, to over $700 …….
So this is exciting and we will start the show in about 2 weeks …..
Stay Tuned!
keep quiet as this is the greatest secret .
What’s that Barclays, you still spewing lies and expecting us to believe you?
Ah, no.
Apple should beat estimates, after all, I bought one new iPad, three iPhones and a 13″ MBP in 3Q.
It’s a big deal.
If Apple sales are down… investors should be worried! This is the start of something great. All companies hit a plateau and it seems Apple is no different.
Ps I don’t want to hear of any excuses… any company can use any excuse when sales are down… it’s no one fault but Apple!
A lot of hubris here, Jon, for someone who knows no more about Q32012 earnings than anyone else this side of Cupertino. You ASSUME that Barclay’s predicted bad news is already a fact. Is it? (If so, how do YOU know?)
Or are you already predicting the same kind of bad news for AAPL that is SURE to come from MSFT July 19? Who do you blame for the $6.2 billion writedown on their stock they’ve already announced? (Talk about a “plateau”!)
Hope you’re confident enough to start shorting heavily AAPL before the July 24 earnings call. Are you? (Too bad there’s no way we can check for sure.)
Apple is def still growing but you can use this exaggerated expectation “miss” (if anything, due to product cycle) to buy some shares and ride the next wave.