Apple to announce Q1 2009 earnings after the bell
Apple will hold its quarterly conference call with analysts to discuss financial results of its first fiscal quarter of 2009 today (21 January 2009) at 2:00 pm PT, 5:00 pm ET.
You can listen to the audio webcast live via QuickTime here:
AppleInsider has posted an earnings preview by Bullish Cross' Andy M. Zaky:
On average, the analysts are looking for the Cupertino-based electronics maker to sell approximately 4.5 million iPhones, 18.5 million iPods and about 2.45 million Macs.
Fortune has posted an AAPL earnings smackdown comparing:
The Street (Thompson Financial):
expects Apple to report a relatively anemic quarter, with earnings of $1.38 per share on revenue of $9.74 billion. (Apple’s guidance offered a range: EPS between $1.06 and $1.35 on sales somewhere between $9.0 and $10.0 billion.)
to The Blogger (Zaky):
expecting a blow-out quarter so much better than the Street’s consensus — as much as $1 billion — that trading in Apple shares could be halted. The key will be the adjusted — or non-GAAP — earnings that fully report revenue from iPhone sales
On 13 January 2009 AAPL shares were trading at 86.91– today AAPL is trading around 80.58.
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