Apple pretty much always gives conservative guidance, and regularly beats it. The Trade RaD&R Operator ought to look at trends in guidance, compare to actual results, for this data to be meaningful.
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Regarding Apple, your analysis assumes that consensus earnings is reasonably accurate. And yet for the past 5 years Apple has handsomely beaten analyst expectations and with the most current quarterly report coming up it seems that again Apple will deliver better than expected results. The point when Apple becomes a mature and slowly growing company like Starbucks or some railroad company seems to still be quite far away.
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The point when Apple becomes a mature and slowly growing company like Starbucks or some railroad company seems to still be quite far away.