In anticipation of Apple quarterly financial report publication investment firm Piper Jaffray has adjusted downward its forecast on the iPhone sales volume in the current quarter to 55 million units. This was announced today with reference to the publication of analysts' reports AppleInsider.
Leading Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster expects that by the end of the first quarter of 2016 iPhone shipments of 55 million units, whereas previously he expected Apple smartphones in the first three months of the year will disperse 62.5 million copies. In the second quarter, expects sales at 48.5 million units instead of the previously expected 45 million. Also Munster in his report to investors said that indicative of Apple's revenue in the current quarter will be $ 55.8 billion instead of $ 60.7 billion that was predicted earlier.
As for the previous quarter, Munster expects iPhone sales on its results totaled 75-76 million copies, sales of Mac - 5.8 Mon, and iPad - 17.5 million. Income Apple, according to analysts, for the fourth quarter 2015 amounted to $ 76.5- 77.5 billion.
Add that Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray is not the only analyst who downgraded his forecast on the volume of iPhone sales for the first two quarters 2016. Previously, did it analysts Morgan Stanley, RBC Capital Markets, JP Morgan and FBR & Co. And last week, the Japanese edition of the Nikkei reported that Apple has reduced by almost 30% the volume of issuance iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus, but it is not so much due to the fall in demand, but with planned inventory.