Today, the day after CEO Steve Jobs went on medical leave and also the day after the Martin Luther King Jr. National Day, the US will start trading stocks on the stock exchanges, including those Apple Inc. As everyone knows, Apple has been accused several times by investors of Steve Jobs' close connection to the company itself, when for many people it was essentially just Steve Jobs represents the embodiment Apple Inc. This situation then naturally leads to a significant decline in shares whenever Steve Jobs some health problem, or God forbid he was about to completely step down from the company's management. As it will be this time, the shares will wait Apple Inc. mr jobs vacation?
18.1.2011
The date is not in the paragraph title for nothing, Steve Jobs He knew exactly when to announce his departure for medical leave. You couldn't find a better date on the calendar this year to announce such a situation than January 18.1.2011, XNUMX! Apple namely, today it will publish its financial results for the first fiscal quarter of 2011. Analysts predict for this period a net profit of 5,36 dollars per share and company revenues of 24,35 billion dollars. Which would be an increase of nearly $10 billion in revenue over the same period last year. Which, of course, will stop the decline in shares caused by Jobs' departure, and on the contrary, such positive results will probably bring them to the same, if not higher, position than they were on 14.1.2011, i.e. the last trading day until today.
Stock markets are very impulsive things, they react immediately and the situation changes from second to second. Apple thus avoided a big initial drop yesterday and today's drop will not be as pronounced as it was yesterday. Of course, the shares will still fall, but certainly not as significantly as it was yesterday during the day, moreover, everything will be matched by the financial results a few hours after the opening of the stock market Apple, which will announce!
Analysts
"In the short and medium term, it will be Apple function normally. Tim Cook "It's highly respected and the new products that the company will introduce in the summer are probably already agreed. So it doesn't mean that everything will collapse in the next six months," said Enders analyst Benedict Evans.
In Frankfurt, Germany, the price fell by about seven percent after yesterday's report, and after a very short stabilization, the decline began to deepen, reaching a loss of about nine percent. The shares were then sold for about 237 euros.
"The role that Mr. Jobs holds is the leader of the last resort."ance. He is the one who looks at the product and says 'this is not it yet, you will have to improve it'. His direction and quality control of the products that the company sends to the market is for success Applu is absolutely essential. So Apple was starting to feel his absence in the horizon of two, three or four years," Evans pointed out.
"Nobody expected that. Investors in App"It will surprise everyone and will certainly hurt the company's shares," said Alexander Peterc, a stock market analyst at the financial company Exane.
