“It’s easy make fun of Apple (AAPL) analysts — and fun, too — but in terms of their ability to accurately forecast the company’s quarterly results, they’ve come a long way,” Philip Elmer-DeWitt reports for Fortune.
“Two years ago, when Apple announced blow-out results that surprised nearly everybody, Wall Street’s analysts missed the company’s revenue and earnings by a combined average of 23%. The amateurs did somewhat better, missing by just under 12%,” P.E.D. reports. “This quarter, the amateurs missed by an average of 2.4% and the pros by only 1% — the best combined performance since we began this quarterly exercise nearly five years ago.”
P.E.D. reports, “Of course, Apple made it a lot easier by giving guidance ranges that accurately reflected their expectations, and then delivering results within those ranges”
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