Fortune's final poll of Apple analysts -- professional and amateur
Here are the final estimates -- barring last-minute revisions -- along with each analyst's rank, where available, in last quarter's earnings smackdown. [UPDATED 4/18 to correct error in Sterne Agee's estimates, 4/19 with new numbers from Turley Muller, Rodman & Renshaw and BCG Partners, and 4/20 with estimates from Bernstein and Technology Insights.]
We'll find out whose numbers were closest to the MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 18, 2011 7:05 AM ET
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Google (GOOG) stock took a huge hit last week following its earnings call, dropping and incredible 47 points or 8.26% from closing the day before. That's $15B in market cap and its biggest one day loss since the 2008 Bear market.
Google surpassed revenue expectations by a significant margin and missed consensus EPS by mere pennies, so why did the stock get hit so badly?
Cowan's Jim Friedland notes,
Google's Q1:11 revenues exceeded expectations. However, MORE
Seth Weintraub - Apr 18, 2011 7:03 AM ET
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T. Rowe Price Group invested $190.5 million in Facebook, though at this point we're not sure at what valuation, along with $71.8 million in Zynga and $35.4 million in Angie's List, a service that compiles reviews of local contractors and doctors. (Wall Street Journal)
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The newly revamped discussion forums are filled with complaints about the new design
Source: Apple.com. Click to enlarge.
No good deed, they say, goes unpunished.
No sooner had Apple (AAPL) re-opened its newly redesigned Apple Support Communities center -- the place on Apple.com where users bring their computer problems and get comfort, validation and, with any luck, solutions from other users -- than the place was filled with complaints about the redesign MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 17, 2011 6:24 AM ET
The pullback in advance of the company's Q2 earnings report has gone far enough
"If you can keep a good stock down, then you are able to load up for the ride back up. It's like a slingshot -- the harder you pull, the more propulsion you generate."
That's how Jason Schwarz, an author and investment adviser, described the game that hedge funds play with Apple (AAPL) in an article entitled "Apple: MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 16, 2011 2:20 PM ET
An anthropological technography of the strange, ritualized world where startups sell themselves to venture capitalists: Demo Day.
The male at work
FORTUNE -- As more people have fled to the startup community for the promise of wealth and freedom, a new tier of gatekeepers have emerged. They're called "incubators," and their imprimatur is tantamount to a college degree. It's like getting a degree from Harvard or MIT, explains David Cohen, the co-founder MORE
Chadwick Matlin - Apr 15, 2011 1:51 PM ET
As analysts rejigger their numbers ahead of Q2 earnings, someone's not counting straight
We got two last-minute reports from analysts Friday, just a few trading days before Apple (AAPL) is schedule to report its earnings for its second fiscal quarter of 2011.
One of the analysts, J.P. Morgan's Mark Moskowitz, lowered his iPad unit sales number for the quarter to 5.4 million from 6.0 million, citing stock outs, stall outs and persistent MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 15, 2011 11:56 AM ET
Tens of thousands of free and low-cost smartphone games are killing Nintendo and Sony
Click to enlarge. Source: Flurry Analytics
The pie chart at right, published Friday by the mobile analytics firm Flurry, illustrates just how rapidly the platforms that brought Mario to a generation of videogamers are shrinking.
It shows Nintendo's share of the multibillion dollar U.S. portable software game business collapsing in the space of a year from 70% to MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 15, 2011 10:47 AM ET
Gay, lesbian and transgender employees contribute a video to the "It Gets Better" project
Source: Apple Inc. via YouTube
Apple (AAPL) on Thursday offered the public a rare and surprisingly intimate look at some of the people who help make its products.
As their contribution to the "It Gets Better" website, more than a dozen gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Apple employees talked on camera about how they managed to survive high MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 15, 2011 7:24 AM ET
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RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie refuted some criticism that the company may have rushed its PlayBook tablet to market. "I don't think that's fair," he told Bloomberg News. "A lot of the people that want this want a secure and free extension of their BlackBerry." The interview came after a few early MORE
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| Company | Price | Change | % Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bank of America Corp... | 7.24 | -0.06 | -0.82% |
| Ford Motor Co | 12.28 | -0.46 | -3.60% |
| Frontier Communicati... | 4.24 | -0.23 | -5.26% |
| Juniper Networks Inc... | 21.57 | -0.80 | -3.58% |
| Cisco Systems Inc | 19.58 | -0.25 | -1.26% |
| Index | Last | Change | % Change |
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| Dow | 12,666.89 | -67.74 | -0.53% |
| Nasdaq | 2,813.64 | 8.36 | 0.30% |
| S&P 500 | 1,315.93 | -2.50 | -0.19% |
| Treasuries | 1.92 | -0.01 | -0.73% |
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