“Apple’s second quarter results are just a couple short weeks away, and Credit Suisse analysts believe the company will beat expectations,” Mark Knapp reports for Wall St. Cheat Sheet.
“Credit Suisse’s Kulbinder Garcha reiterated an Outperform rating and a price target of $600 on Apple shares Tuesday morning in a research note seen by Barron’s,” Knapp reports. “He expects solid growth in iPhone sales in the second quarter, but predicts a slowdown during the third quarter… Garcha wrote, ‘Apple remains well position with a privileged advantage in the compute market and will be able to maintain momentum across key product lines driven by continued innovation in hardware, software and services.'”
Knapp reports, “For the second quarter, iPhone sales are expected to reach 38 million units, which represents a year-over-year increase of 9 percent. But, for the third quarter the analyst’s sales expectations are set at just 31 million units… [which] would still be an 18 percent increase from the year-ago quarter.”
Read more in the full article here.
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DUH!
Really? Does that mean that AAPL is not doomed? Of course the market will respond by saying that the news was baked into the price already and will sell off.
Again, Apple’s quarterly results are imminant.
Here we go again.
And the results will be excellent.
The real question is whether those excellent results will be spun:
UP
or
DOWN
I’ll stick with reality, thank you.
“Apple’s second quarter results are just a couple short weeks away . . . .”
And this from a professional writer/analyst! Where’s the “of” after “couple”? And what, pray tell, is a short week? I realize the patois of the internet mimics the lowest common denominator of American speech patterns, but for the love of Gawd, can’t he do ANY better than this?
Sorry for the observation. Getting fed up with verbal (not oral) sloppiness.
or even for the love of God, perhaps, hmmm?
It’s analyst code to their better patrons. The inclusion of the word “short” is an instruction to them. That’s why he raised his expectations. Begin shorting AAPL because with these raised expectations, AAPL is sure to “miss” and the shorts will win.
Then since you know this to be a fact Jim, you’ll be making a killing at earnings. Shorting the stock or simply buying puts? Let us know how this works out for you.
Print journalists followed style books. Web bloggers just stumble along in the dark.
Oral sloppiness is welcome.
1 Anal-ist with a brain. Must be a mistake.