sincity Posted October 28, 2013 Posted October 28, 2013 Apple's earnings are always the most highly anticipated results of the season among technology companies, and this year's September quarter is no different. The tail end of Apple's fiscal fourth quarter caught the launch of the new iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c handsets and while they were only available for a total of eleven days in fiscal Q4, Wall Street is still expecting Apple's results to get a nice boost from initial sales of the company's new iPhones. Apple announced that it sold a record-smashing 9 million new iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c handsets through the devices' first weekend of availability alone, and analysts have been raising their fourth-quarter estimates ever since. Heading into Apple's report on Monday evening, consensus estimates were looking for Apple to post earnings of $7.93 per share on $36.8 billion in revenue, right near the top of Apple's Q4 revenue guidance of between $34 billion and $37 billion. The numbers are now in and Apple crushed estimates, having managed a fiscal fourth-quarter profit of $8.26 per share on $37.5 billion in sales. Continue reading... View the full article Quote
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