They did great but was it very much above the street estimates?
4 cents per share above expectations... expected 1.81 came in at 1.85.
The Street anal-cysts pull numbers out of the nether orifices and then some "investors," those who don't realize where those guesstimates come from, get disappointed when the fart gas filled balloons explode in their faces and sell their shares in profound panic, failing to see the amazing records being broken in front of their eyes.
These panic sellers are egged on by ignorant, idiot "journalists," who probably got their Financial "expertise" from the crumbs left in an empty CrackerJack box, not finding their prize, which made them so embittered, they too cannot see success through their envy, causing them to pile on with headlines like Yahoo's echoed in repeating Bloomberg's Tim Higgin's screed with a totally specious and downright misleading headline: "Apple Shares Plunge After Disappointing Earnings Report", reporting Apple's quarter in which EARNINGS broke all previous records for the same quarter! I'd call that journalistic and editorial malpractice, wouldn't you?