07/21/2009白天灌水: 今天收阳， 让我想起一个故事

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When AAPL's ER come out?

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Bar Set High for Apple, Which Should Easily Beat Consensus
Posted Jul 21, 2009 01:50pm EDT by Aaron Task in Investing, Computers, Internet
Related: AAPL, YHOO, MSFT, GOOG, ^IXIC, QQQQ, XLK

Expectations are high for Apple when it reports June quarter results after the close Tuesday, at least judging by its stock, which has essentially doubled from its early 2009 lows.

In terms of actual exceptions, the consensus is calling for EPS of $1.16 and revenue of $8.16 billion. Based on Apple's recent history of giving lowball guidance and then posting a big upside "surprise," AlleyInsider.com says Apple will report EPS of $1.36 on $8.35 billion of revenue.

And with AppleInsider.com - citing Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster -- saying Apple is likely to announce its "best-ever June quarter for Mac sales," the bar is being set higher still for both the June quarter and guidance for the current period.

Expectations are not quite so high for Tech Ticker's parent Yahoo!, which also reports after the close: The consensus is for EPS of 8 cents on revenue of $1.14 billion (excluding commissions paid to advertising partners).

Analysts will be looking for concrete evidence that CEO Carol Bartz's efforts to reinvigorate the firm are paying off, Henry Blodget says in the accompanying video. Analysts will no-doubt also be looking for any comments on recent reports, most notably by AllThingsD.com's Kara Swisher, that talks about an ad sales deal with Microsoft are heating up (again).

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Apple Reports Third Quarter Results

CUPERTINO, Calif., July 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2009 third quarter ended June 27, 2009. The Company posted revenue of $8.34 billion and a net quarterly profit of $1.23 billion, or $1.35 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $7.46 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.07 billion, or $1.19 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 36.3 percent, up from 34.8 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 44 percent of the quarter's revenue.

In accordance with the subscription accounting treatment required by GAAP, the Company recognizes revenue and cost of goods sold for iPhone(TM) and Apple TV® over their estimated economic lives. Adjusting GAAP sales and product costs to eliminate the impact of subscription accounting, the corresponding non-GAAP measures* for the quarter are $9.74 billion of "Adjusted Sales" and $1.94 billion of "Adjusted Net Income."

Apple sold 2.6 million Macintosh® computers during the quarter, representing a four percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 10.2 million iPods during the quarter, representing a seven percent unit decline from the year-ago quarter. Quarterly iPhones sold were 5.2 million, representing 626 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter.

"We're making our most innovative products ever and our customers are responding," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "We're thrilled to have sold over 5.2 million iPhones during the quarter and users have downloaded more than 1.5 billion applications from our App Store in its first year."

"We're extremely pleased to report record non-holiday quarter revenue and earnings and quarterly cash flow from operations of $2.3 billion," said Peter Oppenheimer, Apple's CFO. "Looking ahead to the fourth fiscal quarter of 2009, we expect revenue in the range of about $8.7 billion to $8.9 billion and we expect diluted earnings per share in the range of about $1.18 to $1.23."

Apple will provide live streaming of its Q3 2009 financial results conference call utilizing QuickTime®, Apple's standards-based technology for live and on-demand audio and video streaming. The live webcast will begin at 2:00 p.m. PDT on July 21, 2009 at http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/earningsq309/ and will also be available for replay for approximately two weeks thereafter.

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Bencat

still so bullish!

brcm

..........今天算不算庄家又开出一个大来？。。。。。

不过从日子上看财气正在减弱。。。。。。。