AppleInsider Staff
In an update to its Investor Releations webpage on Monday, Apple announced that its next quarterly conference call will take place on April 23, and is expected to cover the company's second quarter performance including profits and sales numbers.
As usual, Apple's conference call will discuss the financial results for the company's fiscal quarter two, which spans from January to March. Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Peter Oppenheimer will likely be on the line to explain the results and offer a forecast for the next quarter.
During the company's last quarterly conference call, it was announced that iPhone sales reached 47.8 million units over the holidays, a 29 percent boost from the same period a year ago. iPad sales were also strong, growing 48 percent year over year to 22.9 million units, but lower margins on the iPad mini held revenue growth for the tablet lineup to 22 percent from the year ago quarter.
Apple's conference call for the second quarter of 2013 is scheduled for Tuesday, April 23, at 2 p.m. Pacific / 5 p.m. Eastern. AppleInsider will be covering the call live, while an audio webcast is also to be made available.
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"lower margins" wouldn't effect REVENUE growth. Fail.
Manufacturing difficulties in Q1 will have put some pressure on margins, and pushed some sales out into Q2. Quite soon after Q2 started the shipping delay on iMac and iPhones in the online store dropped pretty dramatically.
If you back out the effect of the extra leap year week on last quarter's earnings, you get 25% revenue growth and 7% earnings growth in Q1. The manufacturing troubles probably also affected margins, so my wild guess is $51 billion in revenue (30% growth over 2012Q2 of $39.19B) and $13.50 earnings (10% growth over 2012Q2 earnings of $12.30).
Any thoughts?
Manufacturing difficulties in Q1 will have put some pressure on margins, and pushed some sales out into Q2. Quite soon after Q2 started the shipping delay on iMac and iPhones in the online store dropped pretty dramatically.
If you back out the effect of the extra leap year week on last quarter's earnings, you get 25% revenue growth and 7% earnings growth in Q1. The manufacturing troubles probably also affected margins, so my wild guess is $51 billion in revenue (30% growth over 2012Q2 of $39.19B) and $13.50 earnings (10% growth over 2012Q2 earnings of $12.30).
Any thoughts?
I would expect revenue at about $43 billion (10% growth) and earnings at $10.5 (15% lesser).
To me the most interesting number is the iPod mini figure. This impinges on the PC marketplace, a great tech hangout from the past. Of course everyone is interested in phones, but it is the forthcoming transition quarter that's most interesting there. Whether that quarter is Q2 or Q3 remains to be seen. Dudes, these seat-of-the-pants estimates are of no interest.
As a shareholder, I fear this earnings report. I'm hoping for a surprise on the upside.