Inside Scoop: The bottom line on Apple's bottom line
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-In today's earnings, it was kind of a surprise because Apple actually met expectations.
A lot of the times, they've had a blowout, but then kind of more recently, they've missed particularly 'cause analysts kind of upped these estimates.
So, this is kind of the first time that Apple has provided something that's a little bit lower and a little bit more conservative.
And it actually worked out really well for them.
For today's earnings, this is really kind of a show that Apple still is selling a lot of
products.
They've made all new records for iPhones and all new records for iPads.
They're actually surprised on both those numbers which blew some of Wall Street's numbers away.
The point really turns out in the future on what Apple is doing next.
And Tim Cook today, who's Apple's CEO, really provided this vision that they're not really gonna have anything until fall and have a really good 2014, but that leaves a lot of questions between now and then.
There are a lot of questions today about what Apple is doing next.
The company was totally [unk] about it.
Of course, there are questions about bigger iPhones,
new products like a watch or a television.
They kind of dodge around that by saying, "We don't have anything to tell you, but we have some really great stuff in the pipeline." It's really been their kind of go-to way of saying, "We can't tell you what's happening." But they seem really bullish about what's coming up next.
Of course, when that is, we don't really know.
The big news to come out today's earnings is really what they expect for the next quarter which isn't great.
Their estimate was pretty far below what analysts were expecting.
A big part of that is their margin.
That's how much they make on each of their products.
That is considerably lower than what people thought it would be.
So, that combine with revenue, it's-- they're just not making as much as they used to based on the fact that products are more expensive.
Along with the earnings announcement, Apple also announced a repurchase plan that was a little bit higher than what they had before, in fact $55 billion higher, along with the dividend that was 15%.
This is really something they can do to potentially raise the stock price, but also make people happy with the stock which has been going down in value.
