What Do We Really Expect From Apple’s Earnings?

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) will release its quarterly earnings report some time after the market closes this afternoon. In anticipation of the numbers financial observers, investors, and even people with no skin in the game, will be spamming the refresh button on their keyboards.

Apple's earnings reports have started to take on the quasi-religious characteristics of the company's conferences and product launches. The religiosity that now infuses earnings reports from the firm confuses expectations. Apple is a firm like no other, and it appears impossible to read the company's value like any other.

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