Apple to Release Q4 2008 Financial Results on October 21st

MacRumors · Oct 17, 2008, 12:10 PM

Apple has posted a media alert announcing details for the October 21st release of their financial results for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2008. The results will cover sales from June 29th through September 27th, and will be released at the close of trading (4:00 PM Eastern / 1:00 PM Pacific) on Tuesday. Apple's conference call discussing the results will follow at 2:00 PM Pacific and will be available via a live audio webcast.

Apple's most significant release of the quarter was the iPhone 3G and the associated App Store in early July, with the iPod lineup also seeing a refresh near the end of quarter. No new Macs were released during the quarter, but recent data from research firms Gartner and IDC suggest that quarterly U.S. Mac shipments are still growing ~30% year-over-year, well ahead of the pace set by the PC industry as a whole.

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OFFTOPICSdotCOM · Oct 17, 2008, 12:14 PM

This will be interesting!

todd2000 · Oct 17, 2008, 12:20 PM

Am I missing something? June 29th through September 27th does not a quarter make?

Brian Hickman · Oct 17, 2008, 12:28 PM

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Originally Posted by todd2000

Am I missing something? June 29th through September 27th does not a quarter make?

This is essentially the July to October Quarter (July/August/September). Looks like a quarter to me.

(Jan - Mar)
(Apr - June)
(July - Sept)
(Oct - Dec)

digitalbiker · Oct 17, 2008, 12:29 PM

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Originally Posted by jgbhardy

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Not exactly true.

The new MB is the best consumer laptop that Apple has ever released. While it is true that your CPU is slightly and I mean ever so slightly faster. The GPU in the new MB is 5X faster, 5 times.

So using real world applications like Aperture, Photoshop, any game, logic, imovie, FCE, etc. the new MB will easily out perform the old MB.

When Snow Leopard is released the difference in performance should be even greater as the new OS will rely more heavily on the GPU.

todd2000 · Oct 17, 2008, 12:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Brian Hickman

This is essentially the July to October Quarter (July/August/September). Looks like a quarter to me.

(Jan - Mar)
(Apr - June)
(July - Sept)
(Oct - Dec)

Disregard my last post, Im an idiot! I was thinking a quarter was 4 months

. I need coffee.....And I don't drink coffee

gifford · Oct 17, 2008, 12:48 PM

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Originally Posted by OFFTOPICSdotCOM

This will be interesting!

Indeed! Never have so many eyes watched a quarterly results with such intense scrutiny. Well I certainly haven't.

Even if its good, you know the media are gonna spin it negatively this time round. thats my bet.

flottenheimer · Oct 17, 2008, 12:49 PM

Looking forward to this. Will be interesting to see if the event will bump up the hard hit AAPL stock.

pismodude2 · Oct 17, 2008, 12:54 PM

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I bet it will be better than ever! When hasn't it been?

JFreak · Oct 17, 2008, 01:07 PM

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Originally Posted by digitalbiker

So using real world applications like (...) imovie, FCE, etc. the new MB will easily out perform the old MB.

...as long as you have another computer to do the capturing in the first place. The new MB lacks Firewire, which is not great.

macaco74 · Oct 17, 2008, 01:51 PM

let's hope they faired better than the financial firms!

filmguy15 · Oct 17, 2008, 02:09 PM

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Originally Posted by JFreak

...as long as you have another computer to do the capturing in the first place. The new MB lacks Firewire, which is not great.

Wait, the new MacBooks lack firewire? I hadn't heard...

JFreak · Oct 17, 2008, 02:13 PM

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Originally Posted by filmguy15

Wait, the new MacBooks lack firewire? I hadn't heard...

http://www.apple.com/macbook/specs.html

filmguy15 · Oct 17, 2008, 02:20 PM

Oh how I wish text could convey sarcasm properly.

JFreak · Oct 17, 2008, 02:24 PM

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Originally Posted by filmguy15

Oh how I wish text could convey sarcasm properly.

Oh, got it now

I'm hoping Apple has just not yet told us about MB supporting this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FireWir..._1394c-2006.29

IJ Reilly · Oct 17, 2008, 02:46 PM

Apple's guidance from last quarter was $1.00 EPS, which caused a lot of shock and dismay. The consensus estimate for this quarter is $1.11. Last year they reported $1.01 EPS in the same quarter.

I will guess that they report $1.22 next week.

itcheroni · Oct 17, 2008, 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by IJ Reilly

Apple's guidance from last quarter was $1.00 EPS, which caused a lot of shock and dismay. The consensus estimate for this quarter is $1.11. Last year they reported $1.01 EPS in the same quarter.

I will guess that they report $1.22 next week.

I'm going to sound crazy and predict $1.60.

rdowns · Oct 17, 2008, 03:15 PM

$1.28 based on discussions in another forum.

twoodcc · Oct 17, 2008, 03:33 PM

should be very interesting, considering how the stock has went down late in the quarter.

IJ Reilly · Oct 17, 2008, 03:45 PM

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Originally Posted by itcheroni

I'm going to sound crazy and predict $1.60.

Yeah, that's pretty crazy. I could see as much as $1.30 if everything goes right. Of course all eyes will be on forward guidance.

Quote:

Originally Posted by rdowns

$1.28 based on discussions in another forum.

What other forum, if you don't mind my asking?

xyion1 · Oct 17, 2008, 05:17 PM

correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't they going to release THIRD quarter results? I guess they could theoretically know the results already, they did design a Time Machine

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WildCowboy · Oct 17, 2008, 05:20 PM

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Originally Posted by xyion1

correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't they going to release THIRD quarter results? I guess they could theoretically know the results already, they did design a Time Machine

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Apple's fiscal year begins roughly on October 1. So while these results are for the third quarter of calendar year 2008, it is the fourth quarter of their fiscal year 2008.

xyion1 · Oct 17, 2008, 05:39 PM

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Originally Posted by WildCowboy

Apple's fiscal year begins roughly on October 1. So while these results are for the third quarter of calendar year 2008, it is the fourth quarter of their fiscal year 2008.

Ah, they play that game. Fair enough, thanks for the info.

ssteve · Oct 17, 2008, 05:41 PM

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Originally Posted by macaco74

let's hope they faired better than the financial firms!

What......?

I am pretty sure that Apple is not into sub-prime mortgages or any type of mortgage lending. If what I say is true then they probably did not get caught up in poor lending practices. So my bet is that Apple will be fine.

ssteve · Oct 17, 2008, 05:44 PM

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Originally Posted by xyion1

Ah, they play that game. Fair enough, thanks for the info.

Game?

Oct 17, 2008, 12:10 PM	#1
MacRumors macrumors bot Join Date: Apr 2001	Apple to Release Q4 2008 Financial Results on October 21st Apple has posted a media alert announcing details for the October 21st release of their financial results for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2008. The results will cover sales from June 29th through September 27th, and will be released at the close of trading (4:00 PM Eastern / 1:00 PM Pacific) on Tuesday. Apple's conference call discussing the results will follow at 2:00 PM Pacific and will be available via a live audio webcast. Apple's most significant release of the quarter was the iPhone 3G and the associated App Store in early July, with the iPod lineup also seeing a refresh near the end of quarter. No new Macs were released during the quarter, but recent data from research firms Gartner and IDC suggest that quarterly U.S. Mac shipments are still growing ~30% year-over-year, well ahead of the pace set by the PC industry as a whole. Article Link

Oct 17, 2008, 02:46 PM	#16
IJ Reilly macrumors 603 Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Palookaville	Apple's guidance from last quarter was $1.00 EPS, which caused a lot of shock and dismay. The consensus estimate for this quarter is $1.11. Last year they reported $1.01 EPS in the same quarter. I will guess that they report $1.22 next week. __________________ **The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.* Bill Veeck

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twoodcc macrumors 603 Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Right side of wrong	should be very interesting, considering how the stock has went down late in the quarter. __________________ tville pump Smarter than the average bear

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Oct 17, 2008, 12:14 PM	#2
OFFTOPICSdotCOM macrumors newbie Join Date: Jul 2008	This will be interesting!

Oct 17, 2008, 12:20 PM	#3
todd2000 macrumors 65816 Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Danville, VA	Am I missing something? June 29th through September 27th does not a quarter make?

Oct 17, 2008, 12:49 PM	#8
flottenheimer macrumors regular Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Denmark	Looking forward to this. Will be interesting to see if the event will bump up the hard hit AAPL stock.

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pismodude2 macrumors 6502a Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: MacWorld	Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPod; U; CPU iPhone OS 2_1_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Mobile/5F138 Safari/525.20) I bet it will be better than ever! When hasn't it been?

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macaco74 macrumors regular Join Date: Jan 2008	let's hope they faired better than the financial firms!

Oct 17, 2008, 02:20 PM	#14
filmguy15 macrumors member Join Date: Dec 2007	Oh how I wish text could convey sarcasm properly.

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rdowns macrumors Demi-God Join Date: Jul 2003	$1.28 based on discussions in another forum.

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xyion1 macrumors member Join Date: Oct 2007	correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't they going to release THIRD quarter results? I guess they could theoretically know the results already, they did design a Time Machine .