United States. Last week Apple released the mobile clock Watch in the US and a handful of other key markets – the technology giant’s first full new product since the tablet iPad.
As for the results for the fiscal second quarter , released on Monday evening Swedish time, the watch is of course unimportant. And technology analysts who follow Apple is doubtful whether such a narrow lifestyle product ever becomes a bestseller.
“We do not believe that Apple Watch will be a big ‘game changer’ for Apple, at least not during the next twelve months” wrote, for example, Societe Generales analyst Andy Perkins and Peter Knox earlier in April.
Instead, it is still mobile phone Iphone, most of which determines Apple’s earnings and sales. Especially now that Apple is ready to release the quarterly statement follows up record numbers last quarter in January. The profit on $ 18 billion (156 billion) was not only Apple’s biggest quarterly profit ever, it was also the largest for a company at all well above the oil giant Exxon Mobile’s previous record of 15.9 billion from the second quarter of 2012. The iPhone is expected to account for more than 60 percent of sales during the past quarter.
Since winning the shock in January, Apple’s shares simultaneously risen 12 percent, causing some analysts to begin to think that the company is fully valued.
” It feels like everyone wants to see Apple’s earnings figures for guidance “
Chris Weston, IG’s analysts.
Others hope interim period may help to provide the currently fairly sleepy stock markets a new direction, preferably upwards.
– The US markets are very much in limbo now, and it feels like everyone wants to see Apple’s earnings figures for guidance, said brokerage firm IG’s analyst Chris Weston to MarketWatch.
Apple’s second quarterly for the shared financial year traditionally includes a lower profit margin than the first, which includes the holiday shopping season. Wall Street’s average forecast was last week about a profit of 2:17 dollars per share, up from the 1.66 dollars that Apple earned the same quarter last year. The sale is expected to land at $ 56 billion.
A signal may indicate good iPhone sales in the second quarter came on Wednesday as South Korean display manufacturer LG Display’s quarterly report, which was the best in almost five years. LG Display’s customers include Apple, which buys screens to products iPhone, iPad and the new Apple Watch.
Sales of Ipads is expected to reach 14 million units, according to an analyst survey from Fortune last week, compared with just under 57 million iPhones that Apple, with CEO Tim Cook, is expected to have had a turnover of three months. It would mean a sales increase of 30 percent in one year.
Tim Cook is expected to continue repurchases by Apple Shares, in an ongoing maneuver to distribute large portions of the company’s multi-billion cash to the owners. The update of the capital plan is seen by some analysts as more exciting than the actual sales of mobile phones.
“We believe that the company can supply over 100 percent of the cash flow back to the owners for a period, otherwise it is difficult to obtain use all capital already accumulated in the balance sheet, “wrote analyst Chris Caso at Susquehanna Financial last week, according to MarketWatch.
He and several other analysts have faced the interim report screwed up rich courses for Apple’s stock, Chris Casos cases 145-150 dollars. In mid-April, Apple analysts Daniel Ives and James Moore at FBR Capital Markets further and screwed up his price target to $ 185 within a twelve month period. It would evaluate Apple to over 1000 billion dollars – a daring guess based on the market gradually begins to evaluate Apple’s expanding business in software and services higher than it is now.
But analysts are far from unanimous about Apple . Several have lowered target prices for shares in April, although they also retained a significant forecast for earnings and sales.
Other market observers takes to historical statistics to try to justify a short-term price increase after the quarterly report.
“We have seen that shares rush up the date of the quarterly report by an average of 4.8 percent over the last four quarters. The probability weighted towards a change in exchange rates that are better than expected, “notes the IG’s Chris Weston in an analysis.
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