Do you also kick little puppies and pray for a cold winter so the homeless suffer more?
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What to Expect From Apple's Second Quarter Earnings Results Today
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Do you also kick little puppies and pray for a cold winter so the homeless suffer more?
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Finally someone who gets it.
I'm certainly no financial expert ... but I started trying to use RobinHood a bit to invest in some tech stocks, recently, and by using common sense and a little knowledge about the field? I've done pretty well so far. (My best "stock pick" was Qualcomm, when I realized that regardless of the Apple lawsuit outcome - they were still going to be positioned to sell almost ALL of the 5G radio chips that went into every new Android phone made. Then, the Apple lawsuit settlement just made it skyrocket from there.)
Some of the articles Reuters and others have published recently do give me pause though. It seems that most analysts believe all of these companies reporting gains above estimates, lately, aren't really achieving those numbers because of true increases in sales. Much more of it amounts to accounting changes. (For example, you could try to capitalize more of your company's purchases vs. expensing their purchases.) There's just a lot of pressure to show good stock performance right now, because "everyone else is doing it", and it may not be sustainable.
Some of the articles Reuters and others have published recently do give me pause though. It seems that most analysts believe all of these companies reporting gains above estimates, lately, aren't really achieving those numbers because of true increases in sales. Much more of it amounts to accounting changes. (For example, you could try to capitalize more of your company's purchases vs. expensing their purchases.) There's just a lot of pressure to show good stock performance right now, because "everyone else is doing it", and it may not be sustainable.
Myself included. Services is the real key factor, as that’s been on the rise for Apple for quite some time now. I know it seems it’s all about the hardware, but services is the underlying reason Apple has had a lot of growth with Apple Pay, iTunes/App Store, Apple Music, etc. I expect those numbers to be on the rise.
I'd like to agree but your statement is not quite true. A close look at the numbers shows Apple's markup on iPhones is the lowest it has even been. Component prices go up when there are more components that are increasingly expensive.
Apple is also losing market share by double digits in Europe, Middle East, and Africa. I'd be more interested to hear more about their attempts on reversing that trend. The ship has sailed for China and India.
Ugh are they always this slow? It isn't like they didn't know to put their books together today.
Say what you will, they are still printing money. I believe their services business is gonna become like the Apple Watch and Airpods - a sleeper hit.
The iPhone will go into the same category as the Mac at a much larger scale, an aspirational, premium brand, everyone wants (if they fix the keyboard), but a good money maker none the less.
The iPhone will go into the same category as the Mac at a much larger scale, an aspirational, premium brand, everyone wants (if they fix the keyboard), but a good money maker none the less.
Thx ... I stand corrected. I'm always thrown by this since I live in Toronto (EST) and took a trip a few years back to Vancouver (PST) and the flight, although 3hrs or so ... registered only 2hrs on the clock ;D
Seems that earnings doesn't get listed until after trading business hours (5PM) although I'm hoping released 9mins ago (4:39EST current)
Samsung results were abysmal. Apple results are very good.
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The financial bashing did not happen. Seems they did rather well this quarter.
Congrats on getting into investing. If you don't mind some friendly advice, the key is to be patient and not panic. We've had a bull run in the market for 8 years. Eventually it will go back down. Don't panic sell. Pick your stocks, have fun, maybe you will beat the market (i.e., buying an index fund), probably you won't. But don't panic sell and lock in a loss. That is almost the only thing you need to know.
No worries. I live in Portland (PST), but am in Chicago this week (CST), and still had to make sure I was giving you the right info.
Too much coffee today, too little, hard to tell!