Within the next few hours Apple will unveil its third-quarter results and many analyst are expecting a strong performance from the company despite poor results from industry giants such as Microsoft and Google.
On average analysts appear to be reporting that Apple will earn $1.07 a share on $7.36 billion in sales, up from 92 cents a share on $5.41 billion in revenue during the same period a year ago. Apple itself has said it expects to earn $1 a share on $7.2 billion in revenue.
Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray has recently stated in a research note that Mac sales will be “the key to the quarter,” and that he expects Apple to report Mac sales of 2.35 million units during the quarter.
Andy Zaky of Bullish Cross, a blog on Apple’s financial dealings expects Apple to report $1.20 in EPS on $7.720 billion in revenue along with sales of 2.54 million Macs, 10.5 million iPods and 700,000 iPhones in the quarter.
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