To help you handicap next week’s earnings report set for April 20, we’ve compiled analyst expectations for iPhone sales during the second quarter of 2010. The range is from a high of 7.85 million from independent Apple analyst Turley Muller, who blogs at Financial Alchemist, to a low of 6.0 million from Citigroup analyst Richard Gardner. Even if Apple’s results are on the low side, it would mean a 58 percent increase over the same period in 2009.
If Muller is correct — and he’s often right on target — Apple could announce a 107 percent jump in handset sales. You be the judge.
Turley Muller, Financial Alchemist: 7.85M
Daniel Tello, Deagol’s AAPL Model: 7.5M
Peter Misek, Canaccord Adams: 7.5M
Gene Munster, Piper Jaffray: 7.5M
Maynard Um, UBS: 7.5M
Bill Shope, Credit Suisse: 7.41M
Mark Moskowitz, J.P. Morgan: 7.35M
Toni Sacconaghi, Bernstein Research: 7.3M
Jeff Fidacaro, Susquehanna Financial 7.2M
Ben Reitzes, Barclay’s Capital: 7.2M
Yar Reiner, Oppenheimer: 7M
Kathryn Huberty, Morgan Stanley: 7M
Doug Reid, Thomas Weisel: 6.91M
Keith Bachman, BMO Capital: 6.9M
Tavis McCourt, Morgan Keegan: 6.8M
Scott Craig, Merrill Lynch: 6.74M
Shaw Wu, Kauffman Bros.: 6.5M
Brian Marshall, Broadpoint AmTech: 6.2M
Richard Gardner, Citigroup: 6M
[via Fortune]
