The Apple Earnings Preview

The figures that you should know about apple production..
Apple may disappoint investors tomorrow with fiscal fourth-quarter results that show weaker sales of its key iPad and iPhone product lines.
Wall Street is expecting Apple to report $36.27 billion in sales, with earnings per share of $8.91. Apple's own forecast for the quarter is $34 billion, with earnings per share of $7.65. Much of that tally is expected to come from the iPhone and iPad, which together made up 72 percent of the company's revenue last quarter.
This is the first quarter to include sales of Apple's iPhone 5, but only a few days' worth. The iPhone 5 launched September 21, and Apple's fourth quarter ended September 29. We already know Apple sold 5 million phones in its first weekend, so tomorrow's numbers will fill in the remaining days; Apple, however, does not break down its iPhone sales by model.


Analysts expect Apple to have sold a little more than 25 million iPhones during the entire quarter. That would be close to the same number Apple sold in the previous quarter, and up around 46 percent from the same period last year. One thing to keep in mind on that front is that last year'siPhone 4S debuted in October, which was well into Apple's first quarter of 2012.

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