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Something important to consider is whether this beat analyst expectations or not. Your earnings could grow by 20%, but if the stock had priced in 25% growth th

• czhiddy 11y ago
  Wall Street usually has wildly unrealistic expectations for Apple, so expect this modest beat to be spun as a significant miss.
• Cookingboy 11y ago
  Well.. considering AAPL has about the same P/E as IBM/HP, which has about -10% growth, I would personally say the growth is not priced in at all. But even though it's priced as if the company is dying, analysts are still expecting it to grow 20%+. The disconnect is almost funny.
• rattray 11y ago
  Why was this downvoted? Seems like a perfectly reasonable, helpful, and certainly non-inflammatory post.