“Every year, Apple’s first fiscal quarter (coinciding with the fourth calendar quarter) proves to be a monster period for iPhones,” Daniel Sparks writes for The Motley Fool. “Driven by the seasonality of the holidays and Apple’s annual updates to its iPhones just before the shopping season, the tech giant always posts its biggest iPhone sales of the year during the quarter.”
“Investors are particularly interested in this fiscal year’s first quarter, because it aligns with the first full quarter of availability of the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus, and the launch of Apple’s special 10th-anniversary iPhone — the iPhone X,” Sparks writes. “In addition, with the iPhone X coming to market over three years since Apple last updated the overall form factor of the iPhone, investors will be watching to see whether Apple could have an unusually robust iPhone upgrade cycle.”
“Look for first-quarter iPhone unit sales growth of about 5% to 9%,” Sparks writes. “More specifically, Apple should sell around 82.2 million to 85.3 million iPhones in Q1, up from a record 78.3 million iPhones in the year-ago quarter.”
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MacDailyNews Take: By most accounts, Q118 will set new iPhone revenue and unit sales records! We’ll soon find out for sure when Apple releases their Q118 Data Summary on February 1st.
SEE ALSO:
Canalys: Apple shipped 29 million iPhone X units in Q4 2017; world’s best-selling smartphone over the holiday season – January 23, 2018
Apple to release Q118 earnings, webcast live conference call on February 1st – January 8, 2018
iPhone X accounted for 1 in 5 iPhones sold by Apple in America last quarter – January 22, 2018
Maybe they will explain the missing/ delayed HomePod functionality. I’d like to hear a little about that.
Another No-Info, Non-Article by Motley Fool. Its not even worth reading anything by that company, not a word. Its like discussing stocks with your sister’s kid.
Nope. Not this quarter.
They intentionally delayed the Homepod and releasing it in a lower quarter to level up this exact period. Else it would’ve been lost in number because they won’t release unit sold
Motley Fool are passionate Apple haters. Ignore anything they write.
Yes, as usual at the end of the “article” it has their links to 10 stocks they like better than Apple. I’m sure they will ride the Trillion train and then publish some negative stuff (pump and dump)
“Motley Fool are passionate Apple haters. Ignore anything they write.” And also “INVESTOR PLACE”. Don’t believe a words from it and stop reading.