📊 Apple beat on the quarter, but the guide is what moved the stock.
$AAPL FQ4: EPS $2.10 vs $1.99 est, revenue $114.5B (+12% YoY) vs $113.4B. iPhone +17%. But it's guiding Dec-qtr gross margin to 45–46% (est ~46.3%) on rising memory costs, and Services to +8–9%. Shares fell 2.8% after hours.
🟢 Bull: Apple is guiding to a record holiday quarter (+7–10%), the iPhone 18 cycle is strong, and the iPhone Duo has only just launched.
🔴 Bear: Memory costs are squeezing margins, Services is slowing, and China was soft ($17.5B vs $18.6B est).
Buy the dip or wait for margins to settle? 👇
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