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Apple today announced that its next quarterly earnings conference call will be held on Thursday, October 31 at 2 p.m. Pacific Time/5 p.m. Eastern Time.

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On the call, Apple's CEO Tim Cook and CFO Luca Maestri will discuss the company's earnings results for the fourth quarter of its 2024 fiscal year. It will likely be Maestri's final earnings call at Apple, as he will be succeeded by Kevan Parekh on January 1, 2025. Maestri will continue to lead the Corporate Services teams at Apple.

The call will be streamed live on Apple's website, and it should run approximately 60 minutes.

Apple released these products in the quarter, which ran from June 30 through September 28:

  • HomePod mini (Midnight)
  • iPhone 16
  • iPhone 16 Plus
  • iPhone 16 Pro
  • iPhone 16 Pro Max
  • Apple Watch Series 10
  • Apple Watch Ultra 2 (Black)
  • AirPods 4
  • AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation
  • AirPods Max (USB-C)
  • Various accessories, including a 25W MagSafe Charger

Will Apple's earnings results be a trick or a treat? On its last earnings call in August, Apple said it expected its fourth quarter revenue to grow at a rate similar to its third quarter, which would mean around 5% growth on a year-over-year basis. Apple reported $89.5 billion revenue in the year-ago quarter, so a 5% increase to that would equal around $94 billion, which would be a fourth-quarter record for Apple. Sounds like a treat.

Article Link: Trick or Treat? Apple's First Earnings Call Since iPhone 16 Launch Scheduled for Halloween
 
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btrach144

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Isn’t Apple’s FY run Jan-Dec? Seems weird for Luca to not deliver the Q4 call at the end of Jan 2025 and formally wrap up the year considering he was CFO during the entirety of Q4 and of the entire FY24.
 

spaxxedout

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hoping the Mac event is the 14th or 15th. Precedent is all over the place and hard to tell. Reasoning is:

10/10 - Tesla Robotaxi event
10/14 or 10/15 - Mac event
10/24 - Snapdragon Summit
10/31 - Earnings call
 
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Ericdjensen

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Probably neither. I’m sure they’ve made plenty, but they had to expect iPhone sales would be down.
 

redbeard331

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Never seen so many iPhone pros in stock all over California since launch day so I don’t see how they could be selling well. Last year there wasn’t ONE available of any color or configuration until a couple weeks into October.
 

bLackjackj

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Isn’t Apple’s FY run Jan-Dec? Seems weird for Luca to not deliver the Q4 call at the end of Jan 2025 and formally wrap up the year considering he was CFO during the entirety of Q4 and of the entire FY24.
Does Luca care? He's sitting on millions and will be on the books as an employee for years to come. The quarterly calls are like a millionaires boys club specially scripted for wall street to play down the slow growth and innovation.
 

wanha

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I doubt it, 0 demand and stock a plenty all over the world. Vision Pro failed, billions lost to the car project during Tim's tenire...Tim needs to depart and make way for a visionary.

I'd be curious to know what you base your claim of "0 demand" on?

iPhone 16 may not be all that interesting for 14 and 15 owners, but the vast majority of iPhone upgraders are updating from phones 3-5 years old and they will see remarkable improvement from their devices.

Same with corporate buyers.

If Apple was really in danger of missing their targets, they would have let the market know by now.

More interesting than current sales is their future guidance anyway.
 

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The earnings call will not give any particular insight, they never do. They'll just spin the positives, like revenue for services as that always goes up. The only product of note is the iPad Pro, which may have sold well, but doubt it did big numbers for the market it is in. As for iPhone, they'll just bang on about Apple Intelligence being the driver for sales and they have more big things coming up to induce people to get iPhone 16 or iPhone 15 Pro.
 
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