Apple earnings vibe check: The call wasn't all 'roses and daisies'

Yahoo Finance's Bradley Smith and Diane King Hall gave their vibe check for Apple's Q2 2023 earnings call.

Brad and Diane's biggest takeaways: While the call wasn't all 'roses and daisies', Apple did acknowledge where the macroeconomic environment was hitting them, and the company was transparent enough to allow investors to be positively reactive to the stock after hours.

The call addressed several important topics, including Apple's (APPL) devices, services, and dividend cadence.

So what was Brad and Diane's overall rating of the call? Watch the video to find out.

Video Transcript

BRAD SMITH: Let's get to our vibe checks. Taking a look at this call and everything that we heard, honestly, without hesitation, I gave this a five out of five. There were a few things that--

- I know you did.

BRAD SMITH: --they need to do. They need to be transparent. They need to signal growth as well. And they also needed to acknowledge where the macroeconomic environment was hitting them. Of course, it wasn't all roses and daisies. But I think with what they needed to be transparent about and what they were seeing in the macro and how that's impacting certain products, I think the investors heard enough to be positively reactive. And we saw that in the share price action tick by tick after hours here as well.

- And I give it a four because to your point, it wasn't all roses and daisies. And they're still not giving guidance. They stopped giving guidance back in 2020, blamed it on the pandemic. But pandemic, who's she? It's not around anymore. So it's a four for me.