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1) How Big Can Apple Grow? + Vic Wisemann’s Thoughts on: MCD, IBM, AXP, CVX, T, VZ and MSFT
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We are starting to get into the meat of the earnings season. By the end of this week, over half of the Dow Jones Industrial Average component stocks will have reported earnings for the last quarter. McDonalds (MCD), International Business Machines (IBM) and American Express (AXP) have recently reported earnings and Chevron (CVX), AT&T (T), Verizon (VZ), Microsoft (MSFT) and Apple (AAPL) are reporting in the next week.
Of the upcoming reports, AAPL presents an intriguing story. Apple will report its earnings for the first quarter of its 2010 fiscal year on Monday -- just two days before the company is expected to announce new products.
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Analysts expect the company to produce an average $2.04 earnings per share in the December quarter, with revenue estimated at nearly $12 billion. That would represent a 17.8 percent increase in sales from a year prior. Gross margins are expected to come in at around 35.6 percent.
What makes this earnings report interesting, however, is the potential effect of accounting changes on the earnings number. This could quite possibly be the only time you will hear me call an accounting change interesting.
Read on to see how an Apple today can put profits in your portfolio.
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