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Apple Reports Strongest Ever Quarterly Earnings: $13.1 Billion Profit on $57.6 Billion in Revenue in Q1 2014
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For a company that does not pay dividends (well they pay but not much) no growth means drop in price. And growth in revenues does not count. It's all about profits. No surprises here. Wait until they provide forward guidance. It may get worse.
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Stock down? Good time to buy!
That's what they said when APPL dropped from $700 to $600.
I carry a Note 3 in my brief case every day. Just purchased, set up, and deployed 5 Note 3 in the last week in December.
Also have a 5s. I can use whichever device I choose. I never use the Note 3. It's dead weight but I have to have one in case I have to answer driver questions.
My advice is neither biased, subjective, or baseless. Your lack of information on me is however in fact baseless and as such subjective.
Are you typing in from Korea, or are you a domestic, Korea-hired marketing shil? Either one would be realistic.
CNN Business headline :
Apple's profit and sales beat expectations, but a disappointing outlook sends shares down 6% after hours.
Apple has become Microsoft (or at least is slowly getting there).
Huge revenue, huge margins, but never quite enough for investors and analysts.
Look at the MSFT chart from 2000-2010 and that's AAPL's future.
Huge revenue, huge margins, but never quite enough for investors and analysts.
Look at the MSFT chart from 2000-2010 and that's AAPL's future.
Would you want to be called Apple shill? Why the need for calling the names? Since you never use Note 3 you simply can't know how good it is (carrying it in a brief case does not count).
I'm not sure how you are getting that growth is gone?
"Apple sold a record 51 million iPhones in the quarter, up from 47.8 million
It sold 26 million iPads, a new record, up from 22.86 million last year.
It sold 4.8 million Macs during the quarter, compared to 4.06 million in the year-ago period."
That is huge product growth. The law of large numbers should start kicking in, but over 6% increase in phone sales is a good direction. Not to mention a 15% increase in Mac sales and the rest.
Or do you mean pure profit growth? It held steady, great. What exactly is Apple supposed to do with more cash? I'd rather they reinvest it into the company similar to Amazon. Amazon never shows a significant profit, but their success is not in question. I'd hate to see decreasing sales and more money made. That doesn't bode well for the future, which is what stock is about, yes?
According to the numbers... how are you confused by this? It's not an opinion, it is factually one.
Market Cap
For folks who don't understand why the stock might go down afterhours, you have to understand that it takes tremendous results to support Apple's current $487 billion market cap. Wall Street does not believe that Apple is a growth company unless it comes out with a new product line. The new product line is highly speculative. So when Apple doesn't show huge growth in its iPhone and iPad sales, Wall Street gets nervous that Apple won't remain a near half trillion dollar company.
Me, as a shareholder, I like the results. I like that another nice dividend is coming and I like that greater stock buybacks may be coming as well. Also I'm a believer that growth in China sales will be significant. I think Android has seen its best days. Samsung won't advertise as much this year (as compared to last year) and the other high end manufacturers don't have any idea how to make money in this space (and in fact there might not be a way for them). So there is a smartphone shakeout coming.
For folks who don't understand why the stock might go down afterhours, you have to understand that it takes tremendous results to support Apple's current $487 billion market cap. Wall Street does not believe that Apple is a growth company unless it comes out with a new product line. The new product line is highly speculative. So when Apple doesn't show huge growth in its iPhone and iPad sales, Wall Street gets nervous that Apple won't remain a near half trillion dollar company.
Me, as a shareholder, I like the results. I like that another nice dividend is coming and I like that greater stock buybacks may be coming as well. Also I'm a believer that growth in China sales will be significant. I think Android has seen its best days. Samsung won't advertise as much this year (as compared to last year) and the other high end manufacturers don't have any idea how to make money in this space (and in fact there might not be a way for them). So there is a smartphone shakeout coming.
P/E 13.91 is rather low for a company like Apple, it's at the same level as Microsoft, Coke is on 20.
One guess is the outlook. Based on that, it doesn't look like there will be any new products in the current quarter.
You are wrong. My posts were down-voted but not deleted. You can read them over there. Apple fans down-voting anything they think is not good enough for Apple... Is this such a big surprise? How do you like Apple earnings by the way? I did give an advice for people on AT that they might want to think about diversifying from APPL. If they listened to me instead of down-voting perhaps they would feel better today. Maybe they will up-vote my posts now? It's not too late