Even the iPhone Can't Save Sprint From a Loss (DIS, NOK, PNRA, S)

Even the iPhone Can't Save Sprint From a Loss

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Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS ) keeps the magic alive with first-quarter earnings of $0.80 a share, ahead of analysts' estimates for $0.71 a share.
Panera Bread (Nasdaq: PNRA ) reported earnings that were level with expectations, and announced its CFO is leaving next month.
Sprint Nextel (NYSE: S ) reported a bigger-than-expected fourth-quarter loss, despite selling 1.8 million iPhones for the period.
Nokia (NYSE: NOK ) plans to reduce costs by cutting 4,000 jobs and shifting work to Asia.

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Report this Comment On February 08, 2012, at 1:05 PM, lucasmonger wrote:

The title of this article is silly. Everybody knows that the up-front costs of an iPhone requires the carriers to bill the customer for 24 months before recouping those costs. So to think that record iPhone sales might help Sprint's quarterly numbers is completely flawed.
The iPhone is only going to help slow the bleeding of people leaving Sprint.
Report this Comment On February 08, 2012, at 1:10 PM, mnosense wrote:

This is junk. It just proves Motely Fool really hosts a bunch of morons.

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Even the iPhone Can't Save Sprint From a Loss

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