{"id":87289,"date":"2009-12-17T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T21:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/rim-crushes-quarter-guidance-strong-2009-12"},"modified":"2009-12-17T16:10:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T21:10:00","slug":"rim-crushes-quarter-guidance-strong-rimm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/87289","title":{"rendered":"RIM Crushes Quarter, Guidance Strong (RIMM)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=5d7a6c7975009349786e2500\" border=\"0\" alt=\"jim balsillie surprised tbi\" \/><\/p>\n<p>iPhoneWho?<\/p>\n<p>BlackBerry maker Research In Motion just crushed Street expectations for Q3 &#8212; the quarter ending in November &#8212; and issued strong guidance for Q4. Shares are up 9% after hours.<\/p>\n<p>RIM shipped its 75 millionth BlackBerry during the quarter.<\/p>\n<p>The real test will be December, where RIM will have to increasingly compete with Google Android devices at Verizon. But in general, it looks like RIM is thriving despite increased competition in the smartphone industry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key stats:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Revenue: $3.92 billion<\/strong> vs. $3.78 billion consensus.<\/li>\n<li><strong>EPS: $1.10<\/strong> vs. $1.04 consensus.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Subscriber additions: 4.4 million<\/strong>, vs. 4.1 million RBC est.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Devices: 10.1 million<\/strong> shipped, including 75 millionth BlackBerry<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Guidance:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Revenue: $4.3 billion<\/strong> midpoint vs. $4.11 billion consensus<\/li>\n<li><strong>EPS: $1.27<\/strong> vs. $1.12 consensus<\/li>\n<li><strong>Subscriber additions: 4.55 million<\/strong> midpoint vs. 4.45 million midpoint RBC est.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-decades-best-gadgets-2009-12#apple-ipod-1\">Don&#8217;t miss: 15 gadgets that changed everything this decade &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/rim-crushes-quarter-guidance-strong-2009-12#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/rim-sell-now-2009-11\">RIM Should Sell Now Before It&#8217;s Too Late<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/motorola-lets-apple-and-rim-win-again-2009-9\">Motorola Blows CLIQ Pricing, Lets Apple And RIM Win Again<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/rims-secret-growth-plan-for-the-blackberry-2009-9\">RIM&#8217;s Secret Growth Plan For The BlackBerry<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/wn3ql_v6eYk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iPhoneWho? BlackBerry maker Research In Motion just crushed Street expectations for Q3 &#8212; the quarter ending in November &#8212; and issued strong guidance for Q4. Shares are up 9% after hours. RIM shipped its 75 millionth BlackBerry during the quarter. The real test will be December, where RIM will have to increasingly compete with Google [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}