What The World Is Thinking Ahead Of Apple's Earnings

With minutes to go, this is what the world (according to the Google machine) is thinking ahead of Apple's earnings... and what the market expects...

and what the market is expecting...

• Revenue: $54.878bn (Guidance $52.00bn)
• Operating Income: $16.97bn
• EBITDA: $18.145bn
• EPS GAAP: $13.531 (Guidance $11.75)
• EPS Adj: $13.531

(h/t @Russian_Market)

Comments

[SeverinSlade]

Tyler's operating out of Switzerland? 

[THX 1178]

That sorta makes sense.

[fuu]

TOR

[Ahmeexnal]

exactly.

[hedgeless_horseman]

"Lieutenant Dan got me invested in some kind of fruit company. So then I got a call from him, saying we don't have to worry about money no more. And I said, that's good! One less thing."

[TheFourthStooge-ing]

Unlike Maria Bartiromo, I doubt that Tyler is tossing salads in Davos.

[strongband]

"What the world is thinking"?? Because a Google search engine is the most impartial search engine for Apple topics, right?

[TruthInSunshine]

Swiss Freeports Are Home for a Growing Treasure

The Tylers have come a long way since that shit shack near the paper mill.

SIMON STUDER started his career in a basement vault in a warehouse complex near the heart of this city, known for international banks and outrageous prices. It was a strange job. Every day, someone would open the vault and lock him inside until it was time for lunch. Then he’d be let out of the vault and, after eating, he’d be locked in again until it was time to go home.

He was taking inventory for one of Switzerland’s best-known gallery owners, who rented the space. “I was checking sizes, condition, looking for a signature,” Mr. Studer recalls, “and making sure the art was properly measured.”

This might have been a tedious way to spend four months, but what was being tallied and assessed was the handiwork of Pablo Picasso. Not hundreds of pieces, but thousands — shelf upon shelf of drawings, paintings and sculptures. It was Mr. Studer’s first peek at the astounding wealth stuffed inside the Geneva Freeport, as this warehouse complex is known.

The second peek came when he realized what the guy in the vault next door was doing: counting a roomful of gold bars.

“That’s the Freeport,” says Mr. Studer, who now runs his own gallery. “You have no idea what is next door and then you happen to be there when they open a door and, poof, you see.”

I especially love that last part, where Mr. Studer casually states "[t]hat's the Freeport..." and "...when they open a door and, poof, you see [a guy stacking an entire room full of gold bars]."

[Curt W]

How do you add a picture, I tried and failed.

[A Lunatic]

Can you imagine this place if the unwashed masses could add pictures..................?

[Curt W]

< A visual masterpiece?

< A corrupt den of mis-guided intensions that rivals the US GOVERNMENT

[idea_hamster]

"You said 'Apple will fail' twice."

"I like 'Apple will fail.'"

[Zap Powerz]

I bet there is a strong corrolation between Apple users and Facebook users.

Both are fads, both suck and both get used by idiots that do idiot things because they are idiots.

[Hippocratic Oaf]

True, Zap

However, my Apple product was purchased and paid for monthly by my wifes company.

That CAN'T make me an idiot, no?

I refuse FB.

NFLX (POS) is waaaaaaaaay up

[Zap Powerz]

No, it means youre smart enough to use other people's money when the offer it to you.  It does, however, mean your wife's company is, um, well, could make better choices about their smart phones.  :)

[Pure Evil]

I believe it says FAIL then FALL. But, who really gives two shits, eh?

[TWSceptic]

I hate FB, I like Apple. Although more for their desktop computers than for their gadgets. I'd say the idiot is the one who is dogmatic about a choice, I just pick the product I happen to like best at the time.

[thisandthat]

"Apple will fail"

"Apple will fall"

[jcaz]

It's where zee gold is hid....

[Hippocratic Oaf]

Expect great #'s, TPTB want this ride to go to new highs

Bullshit

[Seer]

Via Middleton (who is pushing Google).

[Aurora Ex Machina]

Davos, bitches!

[Zer0head]

as they head up to Davos, the helicopter pilot turns to reveal his face

[camaro68ss]

makes sence, He needs to stay in hiding from TPTB. If he lived in the USA they would have already found him, hung him in the closet with a gun shot wound in the back of the head, calling it a suicide.

Truth, the governments #1 enemy.

[falak pema]

to get into Davos you have to be in 8 figures.

[seek]

ZH servers are based in Switzerland, after escaping the US.

Presumably Tyler VPNs through them, or uses TOR.

[TruthInSunshine]

Tylers are so far ahead of TOR or anything else "spoken of."

Even a Stellar Wind can't detect what the Tylers be rollin' on.

[Ying-Yang]

SeverinSlade.... you sly sleuth you

[SeverinSlade]

Oh come on.  Need to mess around and have a little fun.  In this "market" if you can't learn to laugh, you'll probably kill yourself or become bald from the even being witness to this entire farce.

I guess the more accurate question should be: "Why are the Russians operating out of Switzerland?"

[lolmao500]

Should I put pants on...

[Frank N. Beans]

Dependz

[noob]

...depends on the flow

[Ying-Yang]

Tyler Davos Durden?

[847328_3527]

"Better then expected" is what I'm expecting no matter what their losses or profits are.

[Seer]

"Surprised that it's better than expected!"

It's always a surprise and it's always better than expected!  One surely wouldn't expect less?

[Dr. Engali]

Apple will...... serve the new iPad with creme brulee to make it taste better.

[ziggy59]

No Apple sauce recipe requests??

[DoChenRollingBearing]

Apple is the biggest of them all.  That would hint that they may be more fragile than people think...  N N Taleb (author of new book Antifragile) contends that big companies are often at more risk than smaller ones.  Big companies that have gotten into recent trouble include Caterpillar and Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, both studied here at Zero Hedge.

Antifragile: Company Examples

http://tinyurl.com/ag5nc9x

[Seer]

"Apple is the biggest of them all."

I'm having a hard time thinking that govt intervention is the driver of Apple's position.  The only other conclusion would be that this is a demonstration of capitalism responding to market forces, which raises some serious questions about capitalism and about people's choices (same people that have voting rights for electing political leaders).

[Joe moneybags]

Nicolas Taleb is smart, insightful, quotable, knowledgeable, and a critic of the main stream cheer-leading for stocks.  In other words, he has been wrong.

[hedgeless_horseman]

In other words, he has been wrong.

That depends on your time frame, doesn't it?

[TruthInSunshine]

Indeed.

[Tinky]

My main quibble with Taleb is his major role in (inaccurately) popularizing the expression "Black Swan". I've been traveling in NZ recently, and in certain areas (notably Lake Rotorua), black swans are abundant!

[DoChenRollingBearing]

@ Joe m

Thanks for responding!

Indeed, Taleb has WRONG far more times than he has been right in his investments.  Yet he is WAY UP, he now has reached the f**k you stage of money...  How?  By limiting his downside and positioning himself to take LARGE GAINS.  It would be wonderful to have him next to me flying to London (wherever), to bounce ideas with.  But, would he talk to a Bearing?

[TruthInSunshine]

DoChen, see my link above.

Taleb makes an absolute massive killing when he nails it (something goes boom, which happens a lot more frequently than people want to believe), and contains, with mathematical precision, his far more frequent losses to tiny, long-term manageable amounts.

[pragmatic hobo]

NFLX up 30% ...

[Seer]

I'm seeing just under 6%.  That it's up makes one shake one's head.  And then there's FB...

At this rate we'll soon be able to take out shares in ourselves and trade them based on how well we're "liked."  I'm going to take the position that Farmville won't be the 3-D food printer that many might believe- I'm all-in on real/physical farms (yes, risky!).

[CaptainSpaulding]

I subscribe to  NFLX and use it via my Tivo box. Their movies have improved 100%. for $7.99/ month,  Its a great service

[Seer]

I suppose entities like this will hold up better than they otherwise would (given "true free trade") seeing as how vital they are in preoccupying the masses such that they don't pay attention to being fleeced.

And margins don't seem to matter anymore...

[Seer]

I suppose entities like this will hold up better than they otherwise would (given "true free trade") seeing as how vital they are in preoccupying the masses such that they don't pay attention to being fleeced.

And margins don't seem to matter anymore...