Between the company, the Street and the amateur analysts, a range of $9.4 billion
Click to enlarge. Data: Company reports, Thomson Financial, Apple 2.0
Apple's (AAPL) fourth fiscal quarter of 2011 ended Saturday, and depending whose estimates you believe, it was either a ho-hum quarter or a record-smasher.
The chart at right shows the actual revenue and earnings...
A snapshot -- by revenue stream -- of an extraordinary quarter
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Asymco's Horace Dediu is still trying to wrap his head around the earnings report that Apple (AAPL) issued Tuesday, in which the company announced that it had made more money in its June quarter than it did in December, even without...
But an amateur -- a Romanian mathematician teaching in Paris -- nailed the numbers
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This story never gets old.
An army of Wall Street analysts, backed by the computing power of some of the world's richest banks and brokerage houses, have once again been out-foxed and out-analyzed by rag-tag bunch of bloggers, amateurs and independent...
Sold a record 20.34 million iPhones, 9.25 million iPads and 3.95 million Macs
Apple's (AAPL) third fiscal quarter was bigger than the most optimistic estimates. Even without a new iPhone to drive sales, revenues, earnings and profits were bigger than the biggest Christmas quarter.
Apple also announced that OS X Lion is coming tomorrow (Wednesday).
The iPhone and...
A big Q3 is a given. Just look at what the stock has done lately. But the devil is in the details
The Street has fallen back in love with Apple (AAPL). "Get ready for the return of the wow factor," J.P. Morgan's Mark Moskowitz told clients last week just before the stock put the finishing...
Estimates from 48 analysts forecast earnings growth between 50% and 107% year over year
Click to enlarge. Revenue in billions, unit sales in millions. The lower the rank, the better the estimates.
This was a busy week for last-minute revisions from the Wall Street analysts that follow Apple (AAPL). The spreadsheet above shows the final estimates we've...
For once, the amateurs and the professionals are in agreement
Source: Company reports, Piper Jaffray
iPod sales hit 22.7 million in the Christmas quarter of 2008 and have been going downhill, with seasonal spikes, ever since.
The quarter that ended nearly three weeks ago is likely to continue that trend, according to the 43 analysts -- professional and...
Estimates range from 3.8 to 4.6 million. The consensus: 4.2 million, an all-time high
Source: Company reports, Apple 2.0
The Mac was hot seller last Christmas. But it was even hotter in the June quarter, according to most of the 43 analysts we polled in advance of our quarterly earnings smackdown.
Thirty of them are calling for Apple...
The analysts' estimates range from 15 million to 20.25 million. Average: 16.9 million.
Source: Company reports, Apple 2.0
No product contributes more to Apple's (AAPL) bottom line than the iPhone.
In the 2nd fiscal quarter that ended in March, when the company sold a record 18.65 million units, the iPhone and related products and services generated $12.3 billion...
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