Kasper JadeAn analysis by investment bankers at Piper Jaffray of NPD sales data released Monday leads the firm to predict sales of 22 million iPhones, 10 million iPads and 4.5 million Macs during Apple's fiscal fourth quarter of 2011, which ended on September 30th. Results are due following the close of the stock market on Tuesday.
Each estimate would translate to a new sales record for the Cupertino-based company, which last set a new benchmark for iPhone sales at 20.34 million and iPad sales at 9.25 million during the second quarter of 2011. Meanwhile, its all-time best quarter for Macs came during last year's holiday quarter at 4.1 million units.
"We recommend owning shares of AAPL into the September quarter results based on strong Mac sales and margin leverage on iPhone and iPad volume," analyst Gene Munster advised clients in a research note Monday. "More important than the September quarter, we believe the set up for the next 6 months is favorable based on likely investor optimism around the holiday quarter, the impact of iPhone 4S, and talk in early 2012 of iPhone 5 and iPad 3."
On average, analysts on Wall Street expect Apple to earn around $7.31 per share on revenues of $29.45 billion, driven by sales of 19.7 million iPhones, 11.4 million iPads, 4.4 million Macs and 7.4 million iPods.
AppleInsider will provide full coverage of Apple's fiscal fourth quarter earnings call beginning at 5:00 p.m. ET, 2:00 p.m. PT on Tuesday.
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On average, analysts on Wall Street expect Apple to earn around $7.31 per share on revenues of $29.45 billion, driven by sales of 19.7 million iPhones, 11.4 million iPads, 4.4 million Macs and 7.4 million iPods.
The bloggers' consensus numbers
: $9.07 EPS, $33.47B revenue, 22.91M iPhones, 13.126M iPads, 4.716M Macs, and 7.28M iPods.
I'll take a wild guess: $9.25 EPS, $34B revenue.
I bought at $74/share in pre-iPhone. Buy into a company because you believe in it.
The bloggers' consensus numbers: $9.07 EPS, $33.47B revenue, 22.91M iPhones, 13.126M iPads, 4.716M Macs, and 7.28M iPods.
I'll take a wild guess: $9.25 EPS, $34B revenue.
I'd much rather see the blogger's consensus (or damn near any one of the posters on this forum) than listen to anything that PJ has to say.
I'd much rather see the blogger's consensus (or damn near any one of the posters on this forum) than listen to anything that PJ has to say.
Apple will do extremely well for the quarter. Further the next quarter looks to be even better.
I couldn't resist! However one doesn't have to look to hard to see that Apple is doing extremely well. It would be shocking to find out that Apple is moving almost 3.5 to 4 million iPads a month though.
Apple will do extremely well for the quarter. Further the next quarter looks to be even better.
I couldn't resist! However one doesn't have to look to hard to see that Apple is doing extremely well. It would be shocking to find out that Apple is moving almost 3.5 to 4 million iPads a month though.
I think the bloggers might be a bit high for iPads... I was thinking around 10-11 million but somewhere in the neighborhood of 14-15 million for the holiday quarter. I like their iPhone number, though, and, of course, expect Apple to do even better during the holiday quarter with the addition of the 4S.