On this page we presented the AAPL earnings surprises information for Apple, comparing the expected earnings versus the actual earnings quarter by quarter, with the resulting positive or negative percentage surprise. Any self directed investor doing their due diligence on AAPL (or any other given stock) can benefit from researching all of the Apple past earnings going backwards in time, including how often the company beat or missed the market's expectations. To help you with this Apple earnings surprise research, on this page we presented each quarter's resulting numbers for easy comparison. Studying these numbers can help an investor by providing important context with which to think about AAPL's next earnings report. In your continued research on Apple we hope you will be sure to check out the further links included for revenue and earnings history as well as next earnings dates for AAPL. Thanks for visiting, and the next time you need to research AAPL earnings surprises or those of another stock, we hope you'll think of our site as your go-to earnings surprises research resource of choice.