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April 24th, 2008

Apple reports their quarterly performance today after the markets close. They’re supposed to outperform expectations (after their stock “adjusted downwards” 40% after forecasting a poor quarter earlier this year). But Steve at Marketing Apple has an interesting observation to make:

if Apple had underperformed it would announce its earnings on a Friday (to let the market cool down over the weekend.) If it had over-performed, it would announce on a Thursday (to allow the market to run up the stock price.) So what does announcing on a Wednesday tell us?

As I said, Hmmm. Cautiously optimistic.

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  1. ykw
    April 25th, 2008 at 02:02 | #1

    I think Jobs does not want stock moving wildly in either direction due to speculation associated w/ the announcement date.

  2. Adrian
    April 25th, 2008 at 03:29 | #2

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