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Re: Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results

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Post by mikeryan »

jamesaguilar wrote: post #6
aaronbrethorst wrote: post #2

Down 5.8% (-18.70) in AH trading: http://www.google.com/finance?client=ig&q=AAPL edit: whew, and seeming to stabilize around a 4.5% drop still leaving it above $300. I was amazed it broke $300 so easily last week and was afraid it'd fall back below with this drop.

Why so down? I assume market expectations were higher than what they reported, but in what categories did Apple fall short / what else was as good as expected?

If you look at the past few weeks it looks like most analysts already expected pretty good news from Apple.

This might not have been quite as good as expected - considering they were at 280 on Oct 1 and now are still 30 points higher I'm guessing there's a lot of investors trying to take some money off the table now.

Re: Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results

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Post by gamble »

aaronbrethorst wrote: post #2

Down 5.8% (-18.70) in AH trading: http://www.google.com/finance?client=ig&q=AAPL edit: whew, and seeming to stabilize around a 4.5% drop still leaving it above $300. I was amazed it broke $300 so easily last week and was afraid it'd fall back below with this drop.

Apple announcements are a magnet for traders. There's no point trying to interpret the stock's gyrations as a judgement of their performance.

Re: Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results

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Post by protomyth »

jamesaguilar wrote: post #6
aaronbrethorst wrote: post #2

Down 5.8% (-18.70) in AH trading: http://www.google.com/finance?client=ig&q=AAPL edit: whew, and seeming to stabilize around a 4.5% drop still leaving it above $300. I was amazed it broke $300 so easily last week and was afraid it'd fall back below with this drop.

Why so down? I assume market expectations were higher than what they reported, but in what categories did Apple fall short / what else was as good as expected?

drop in gross margin from 41.8% to 36.9%

also, someone mentioned (CNBC?) that Wall Street thinks Apple should have sold more than 4.19 million iPads this quarter. Errr...

Re: Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results

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Post by aaronbrethorst »

gamble wrote: post #13
aaronbrethorst wrote: post #2

Down 5.8% (-18.70) in AH trading: http://www.google.com/finance?client=ig&q=AAPL edit: whew, and seeming to stabilize around a 4.5% drop still leaving it above $300. I was amazed it broke $300 so easily last week and was afraid it'd fall back below with this drop.

Apple announcements are a magnet for traders. There's no point trying to interpret the stock's gyrations as a judgement of their performance.

Who's offering any interpretation? I'm sure not.

Re: Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results

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Post by protomyth »

seb wrote: post #8
jamesaguilar wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why so down? I assume market expectations were higher than what they reported, but in what categories did Apple fall short / what else was as good as expected?

The Ipad and Ipod sales are much lower then expected.

iPod sales were expected (more iPhone victims), iPad expectations are just unrealistic.

Re: Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results

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Post by protomyth »

kgutteridge wrote: post #12

27 million iOS devices in the last 3 months, thats a very nice demographic to target that does not seem to be slowing down even with Androids rapid growth also gaining real momentum, I like being in mobile its certainly interesting!

Yeah, I'm doing my last work on 3 desktop apps and then moving into iOS for the forceable future.

Re: Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results

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Post by ugh »

Steve Jobs is just now highlighting Android’s “fragmentation” and discussing Android’s openness. He is also talking about upcoming tablets and their 7" screens. (Trash talking them, that is. No 7" screen from Apple anytime soon.) Ars Technica is blogging: http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/10/liveblog-q4-2010-e...

Re: Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results

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Post by danilocampos »

The iPad sales are just staggering. Moving that many units of a product that didn't even exist a year ago, in a category that was long thought dead, is incredible.

Identify an optimal user experience, polish the hell out of it, then perform an airtight integration of every single component, from end-to-end. The software and hardware, the content ecosystem, the physical distribution, all of it fits together perfectly.

When you look at it closely, Apple, as a portfolio of talent, technologies and interacting businesses, resembles the sort of microorganism that Intelligent Design proponents advance as evidence of a god. Everything cooperates in such a concerted, integrated way it's almost impossible to imagine developing any of it in simpler phases.

In a world filled with corporations whose in-fighting and conflicting agendas make them look like mosh pits, Apple has the tightest marching band in history.

edit: Also, anyone notice how often Apple reports their "best quarter ever?"

Re: Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results

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Post by jbail »

aaronbrethorst wrote: post #15
gamble wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple announcements are a magnet for traders. There's no point trying to interpret the stock's gyrations as a judgement of their performance.

Who's offering any interpretation? I'm sure not.

Buy the rumor and sell the news.
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