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• Flash: Apple posts record quarterly profit

  Published: July 25, 2007, 2:12 pm

  Tags: Aapl, Earnings, Iphone, Ipod, Mac, Mac Computer, Maccomputer, Steve Jobs, Stevejobs, Tech

  under: Earnings reports, Good news, Press releases, Products and services, Consumer experience, Competitive strategy, Apple Inc (AAPL) Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) today posted record quarterly profit, easily beating Wall Street estimates Profit was $818 million, or 92 cents per share, compared with $472 million, or 54

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• AAPL opens strong after earnings report

  Published: July 26, 2007, 6:00 am

  Tags: Aapl, Earnings, Stock

  you listened to yesterday's earnings call (or followed the highlights on our liveblog) you heard a lot of interest about the initial days of iPhone sales, which barely made it into the June quarter numbers; Apple's not even recognizing revenue from AT&T subscription sharing until the September quarter. Meanwhile, the Mac and iPod businesses

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• Liveblogging the Apple earnings call

  Published: July 25, 2007, 1:10 pm

  Tags: Apple, Conferencecall, Earnings, Liveblog, Liveblogging, Results, Thirdquarter

  the Apple FY07 Third Quarter earnings call, starting up in just a few minutes at 5pm Eastern. Apple is expected to announce some big numbers, and we should get an idea of what they expect from the iPhone in the next quarter or so. More updates as we post them.If you want to join in, Apple's got a quicktime link, so hit it and let the big numbers

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• Why the iPhone should tank

  Published: July 27, 2007, 6:00 am

  Tags: Apple, Earnings, Failure, Iphone, Macenstein, Numbers, Sales

  on the news during the earnings announcement yesterday that Apple completely missed their goal for iPhone sales. Why would a man (woman? Did we ever find out what the Doc's gender was?) who's invested $600+ in a phone want it to fail at retail? If you're like me, you might answer that, "because he's crazy." Everyone knows success is always

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• Monster Downsizes, 800 Jobs Gone

  Published: July 31, 2007, 12:21 pm

  Tags: News, Downsizing, Q2 Earnings

  of the disappointing Q2 earnings. The net income second-quarter decreased 28% to $28.6 million from the reported $39.6 million last year. Sales rose to $331.1 million but missed the targeted analyst mark of $337 million by the end of the quarter. Chairman and CEO of Monster Worldwide, Sal Iannuzzi said, While I regret that workforce

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• Delta Financial Corporation Delays Earnings - Stock Plunges

  Published: August 9, 2007, 12:26 pm

  Tags: Mortgage News, Subprime Mortgage, Subprime Implosion, Subprime Mortgage Industry, Mortgage Implosion, Mortgage News, Delta, Wednesday, Ratings, Earnings, Hoped, Woodbury, Shares

  delayed its second-quarter earnings release and conference call, set for Wednesday, Aug. 8, a move that sent its shares down 40% in trading on the day. The nondepository lender had hoped to report earnings before the market opened Wednesday. The delay was posted on its website, with no further details provided. Standard & Poor’s

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• Top 5 Earnings For This Coming Week (BX, AMAT, WMT, DE, HPQ)

  Published: August 11, 2007, 7:01 am

  Tags: Calendar, Earnings

  to be dominated by 5 top earnings. We have included the name and a link through to a full earnings preview we did for each on Friday, although we are providing the basic estimates for basic numbers expected. There are many others reporting, but you'll notice thta there are 5 top earnings for traders to focus on and these are the ones that

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• Earnings Preview: Deere & Co. (DE)

  Published: August 10, 2007, 7:18 pm

  Tags: Earnings

  August 15, we'll get earnings from Deere Co. (NYSE:DE). First Call estimates are $1.99 EPS and $6.65 Billion revenues. Next quarter will mark the end of its fiscal year and estimates for next quarter are $1.23 EPS and $5.65 Billion. If we get a preview of Fiscal 2008 estimates, First call has $8.62 EPS and $25.6 Billion revenues, which

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• Earnings Preview: Blackstone Group (BX)

  Published: August 10, 2007, 3:22 pm

  Tags: Earnings, Private Equity

  LP (NYSE:BX) will post earnings for its units on Monday morning, August 13. First Call looks like the estimates were $0.46 EPS, but investors should be cautious on any set number since the data is new and probably incomplete. This is also the first earnings report from the company since its IPO, and it has only been public since June. The

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• What To Expect From Wal-Mart Earnings (WMT)

  Published: August 10, 2007, 3:00 pm

  Tags: Earnings, Retail

  name of Wal-Mart will report earnings pre-market on Tuesday, August 14. We just saw the July same store sales Thursday, so much of the actual sales and interpreted earnings data should already be baked into the stock. First Call estimates are $0.77 EPS and $92.75 Billion in revenues. The coming quarter expectations are $0.68 EPS and $92.25

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• Hewlett-Packard: Great Earnings Expectations (HPQ)

  Published: August 10, 2007, 2:11 pm

  Tags: Earnings, Pc Companies, Software, Technology Companies

  gains and more than 20% earnings gains. Analysts according to First Call are expecting $0.65 EPS and revenues of $24 Billion. The year over year comparables are a little difficult because of past and even pending acquisitions and integrations, and technology analysts have show time after time how they forget to factor in acquisitions and

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• Previewing Applied Materials Earnings; They Didn't Get The Down Market Memo (AMAT, KLAC, NVLS, LRCX, ASML)

  Published: August 10, 2007, 1:36 pm

  Tags: Earnings, Semiconductor

  Applied Materials (NASDAQ:AMAT) reports on Tuesday, August 14. This will be interesting for chip equipment stocks as this is the largest chip equipment stock out there, but the main reason this will be even more interesting than normally is that this has held up incredibly well in what has become quite a crummy stock market. As of today, First

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• Applied Materials: What To Expect From Earnings (AMAT, KLAC, NVLS, LRCX, ASML)

  Published: August 14, 2007, 10:59 am

  Tags: Earnings, Semiconductor

  (NASDAQ:AMAT) reports earnings today after the close and First Call estimates are still $0.32 EPS and $2.53 Billion in revenues. Next quarter is also its fiscal year-end and analysts expect it to post $0.30 EPS on revenues of $2.46 Billion for the quarter. Analysts are mixed on the stock, but average targets from analysts are between

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• Applied Materials: What To Expect From Earnings (AMAT, KLAC, NVLS, LRCX, ASML)

  Published: August 14, 2007, 10:59 am

  Tags: Earnings, Semiconductor, Amat

  Applied Materials (NASDAQ:AMAT) reports earnings today after the close and First Call estimates are... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• Salesforce.Com Set For Earnings (CRM)

  Published: August 15, 2007, 2:30 pm

  Tags: Earnings, Software, Crm

  After today's close, we'll get the awaited earnings relase from Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM). First... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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