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All signs point to Apple announcing a monster earnings report
Business Insider ^ | 04/27/2015 | Jay Yarow

Posted on 04/27/2015 7:58:57 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Apple reports earnings for the quarter that ended in March after the market closes on Monday, April 27.

Get ready for another monster report.

Analysts are expecting big iPhone sales and think Apple could provide a major update to its cash return program.

According to data compiled by Bloomberg, analysts are looking for $56 billion in revenue, which would represent 23% growth.

Apple's revenue growth is expected to be driven by strong iPhone sales. Analysts are anticipating that Apple sold 58.1 million units, which would be an impressive 33% increase.

If Apple sells 58.1 million iPhones, it will be the second-biggest quarter for iPhone sales in Apple's history. Apple's biggest-ever iPhone sales happened during the previous quarter, when it sold 74.5 million iPhones.

Just a year ago, people were thinking that Apple's iPhone business might have run its course. Unit growth was down to single digits, and it looked like Apple was going to have to lower prices to reignite growth.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: apple; earnings; jewelry; watches
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1 posted on 04/27/2015 7:58:57 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Is the left going to go after them then? Or is that reserved for oil companies?


2 posted on 04/27/2015 8:01:32 AM PDT by vpintheak (Call the left what they are - regressive control-freaks)
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To: SeekAndFind

tax-dodging, plus pandering their products to their liberal, gay-stapo base certainly is profitable.


3 posted on 04/27/2015 8:22:07 AM PDT by telstar12.5 (...always bring gunships to a gun fight...)
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To: SeekAndFind

Just another 25% increase in their share price and they will be the first trillion dollar company.


4 posted on 04/27/2015 8:26:44 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: telstar12.5

Mostly they just reinvented themselves as a jewelry marketer.
The Apple watch doesn’t stand out performance-wise in the smartwatch field but they make some pretty ones.


5 posted on 04/27/2015 8:27:45 AM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: telstar12.5

“Tax-dodging”

Legal tax avoidance - a moral imperative. Do you pay more than you are legally required to pay? Why?


6 posted on 04/27/2015 8:31:03 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion ( "Forward lies the crown, and onward is the goal.")
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To: SeekAndFind; Swordmaker

Don ‘this forget to ping Swordmaker to the thread ... :-) ...


7 posted on 04/27/2015 8:42:39 AM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: telstar12.5

We’re for lower and less taxes here on Free a Republic, not more taxes ... :-) ...


8 posted on 04/27/2015 8:43:49 AM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: SeekAndFind

Apple will do well for one reason: the iPhone 6 and 6+ models are the iPhones that everyone has been waiting for. And unlike almost every Android phone out there (with the notable exceptions of the Google Nexus series of phones and the Xiaomi phones as sold in China), Apple completely controls the updates for the phone, which means timely updates to add functionality and correct bugs of earlier versions of the phone operating system.


9 posted on 04/27/2015 9:33:37 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: SeekAndFind
I went out to the Apple store at least twice during the past quarter, maybe even three times. But at the Apple Store in West Hartford (Westfarms Mall), I spent well over $1,000, getting the newest iPad Air and some wireless speakers for my house.

I'm hoping that I did my part to help Apple have a good quarter. I am really happy with the iPad by the way and the speakers sound great.

Maybe I'll swing by there in the next week or two to grab one of those Apple Watches that everybody is raving about.

10 posted on 04/27/2015 9:55:34 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: SeekAndFind

Hope they go broke. Soon.


11 posted on 04/27/2015 10:30:33 AM PDT by afsnco
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To: SeekAndFind; ~Kim4VRWC's~; 1234; Abundy; Action-America; acoulterfan; AFreeBird; Airwinger; ...
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12 posted on 04/27/2015 10:54:15 AM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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To: afsnco

You’re going to have a long wait.


13 posted on 04/27/2015 10:55:03 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: vpintheak
Is the left going to go after them then? Or is that reserved for oil companies?

They already are. They are demanding that Apple bring home the already taxed profits that are held overseas so they can tax them again at 35%. . . and hauled them before the US Senate in 2013 claiming they had not paid any US Income taxes at all. . .

Tim Cook testified before a US Senate committee and showed them that in 2012, Apple had paid more US Income Taxes than any other business and in fact was paying $1 out of every $40 of US corporate income taxes. Oops, the Democrat staff had not done their homework. Apple pays the income taxes in every legal jurisdiction in which they do business, they do not participate in the double dutch sandwich, etc. And the money in Ireland is there because it has the lowest Capital Gains taxes and that's where Apple transfers already taxed earnings from the rest of the world so it can safely be invested at the lowest rate.

But the Liberals are going after them. . . here and in Italy. There the Italians want to ignore the EU regulations and tax Apple under non-EU rules.

14 posted on 04/27/2015 11:04:45 AM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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To: telstar12.5
tax-dodging, plus pandering their products to their liberal, gay-stapo base certainly is profitable.

See my last reply on Taxes. You are wrong about "tax-dodging" unless you want to believe the Liberal, gay-stapo base. . . who goes after Apple's already taxed assets.

15 posted on 04/27/2015 11:06:24 AM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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To: Swordmaker; gleeaikin

Apple Runs Up Against Its Own Success
http://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-runs-up-against-its-own-success-1430066798

Is Apple Too Expensive to Buy Right Now?
http://www.thestreet.com/story/13126442/1/is-apple-too-expensive-to-buy-right-now.html

Apple: Bear Case From A Bull
http://seekingalpha.com/article/3101046-apple-bear-case-from-a-bull

Here’s What to Expect When Apple (AAPL) Reports Earnings Today
http://www.thestreet.com/story/13126827/1/heres-what-to-expect-when-apple-aapl-reports-earnings-today.html

Apple Inc. (AAPL) Q2 Earnings Preview: China Expected To Drive Strong iPhone 6 Demand
http://www.ibtimes.com/apple-inc-aapl-q2-earnings-preview-china-expected-drive-strong-iphone-6-demand-1897370

AAPL’s numbers today are going to be huge, analysts predict: double-digit growth in all but iPads
http://9to5mac.com/2015/04/27/aapl-earnings-q2-2015-analysts/

Google Executive Dan Fredinburg Dies In Everest Avalanche After Nepal Earthquake
http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/26/google-executive-dan-fredinburg-dies-in-everest-avalanche-after-nepal-earthquake/


16 posted on 04/27/2015 12:55:15 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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To: afsnco

Apple Users who have been around for the last 30 years, have heard that refrain from certain Apple-haters. Those people have been predicting the failure of Apple for as long as I can remember!

We’ve got a Freeper who has been predicting the failure of Apple by next year, for the last 10 years that I can remember ... :-) ...

They’re kinda like “negative groupies” ... LOL ..


17 posted on 04/27/2015 1:36:14 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: SeekAndFind
Here is what just got reported at 1:30 pm PDT on 27 April 2015:

Earnings of $2.33 per share from revenue of $58 billion
Capital return program increased from $130 to $200 billion
Dividend per share increased by 11% to 52 cents per share
61.2 million iPhones sold
12.5 million iPads sold

The continued strong sales of the iPhone 6 models show the decision to build larger screen iPhones was the correct one.

18 posted on 04/27/2015 1:41:00 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: dennisw

Don’t miss the funeral over here!


19 posted on 04/27/2015 1:45:06 PM PDT by IncPen (Not a single patriot in Washington, DC.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Woo-hoo! My Apple stock has more than doubled from when I bought it and now dividends are going up again. I’m a happy investor.


20 posted on 04/27/2015 3:33:53 PM PDT by ConstantSkeptic (Be careful about preconceptions)
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