Apple, Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) is expected
to report fiscal fourth-quarter earnings after Thursday's close.
Benzinga took a look back at Apple’s last seven fourth-quarter earnings reports to look for any potential patterns in how the
stock reacts.
- Q4 2017: shares gained 2.5 percent the day following the report
- Q4 2016: down 2.2 percent
- Q4 2015: up 4.1 percent
- Q4 2014: up 2.7 percent
- Q4 2013: down 2.4 percent
- Q4 2012: down 0.9 percent
- Q4 2011: down 5.8 percent
While most initial fourth-quarter earnings reactions have been relatively modest, many of Apple’s most volatile trading sessions
of the past eight years have happened within two days of an earnings release. The charts below show Apple’s largest single-day
gains and losses of the past eight years. The dates highlighted by the red boxes indicate trading sessions that occurred within two
days of a quarterly earnings report.
Here are some potential takeaways from the information outlined above:
- Apple tends to have volatile earnings reactions, but Q3 market reactions aren’t typically some of the biggest.
- Apple stock has typically moved up or down less than 3 percent on the day following Q3 earnings.
- Apple hasn’t had a major negative reaction (a more than 5.5 percent decline) to any earnings report since its 6.2 percent
drop following its Q2 report in April 2016.
According to Optionslam.com, Apple’s seven-day implied
movement based on the weekly options market is 6.2 percent.
Apple's stock traded around $220.50 at time of publication Thursday afternoon. The stock is up 40 percetn year-to-date.
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