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What terrible charts. I won't go through it line by line but why highlight Q1 vs Q4 instead of prior year Q4 vs current period Q4 (ie, year vs year). Highligh
by privateSFacct 7y ago
What terrible charts.
I won't go through it line by line but why highlight Q1 vs Q4 instead of prior year Q4 vs current period Q4 (ie, year vs year).
Highlighting periods with holiday sales against current nonholiday periods is ridiculous.
- ihuman 7y agoI updated my comment to include Six Colors's article, which has more year-over-year graphs
- nier 7y agoMost of the graphs on Six Colors have 2019-Q4 missing and some of the numbers are wrong. For example compare total revenue change for 2019-Q2 with the actual numbers in the second chart above.
- sulam 7y ago... not paying close enough attention to Apples fiscal year...
- mercutio2 7y agoApple’s fiscal year begins in October and ends the following September. The just released results were for the fourth quarter of the 2019 fiscal year, 2019-Q4.
- sulam 7y agoWow sorry!
- Godel_unicode 7y agoThe very first sentence in the press release is "Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2019 fourth quarter ended September 28, 2019."