Apple, Earnings and the iPhone (AAPL, T)

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Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is set to report earnings today after the close, with First Call having a target of $0.72 EPS on almost $5.3 Billion in revenues.  Estimates for next quarter (its year end) are $0.83 EPS on revenues of $6.05 Billion, and fiscal September-2008 are $4.19 EPS and $29.4 Billion in revenues.

Do you want iPod, Mac, or iPhone numbers?  Probably all of the above.  Yesterday’s numbers out of AT&T (NYS:T) showed only 146,000 activated phones in the last 36 hours of the quarter, although you can expect Apple to note a significantly higher number of units shipped and perhaps some clearer numbers since it is the direct beneficiary.  Shares didn’t react well to the 146,000 activations yesterday, and the weak market didn’t help matters.

In its previous quarter, the company shipped 1,517,000 Mac computers and 10,549,000 iPods.  The company also issued guidance of $5.1 billion in revenues and $0.66 EPS, so you can see that Wall Street is ahead of the company’s (what is always deemed) conservative guidance.  Shares were up more than 1% in morning trade.

Jon C. Ogg
July 25, 2007

Jon Ogg can be reached at [email protected]; he does not own securities in the companies he covers.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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