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Wall Street's parade of tweaks continue. I.

Wall Street's parade of tweaks continues ahead of next week's

second quarter fiscal year 2014 earnings report from Apple.

Behrens had a couple more analysts weighing in on Wednesday, first in line Pacific Crest

securities analyst Andy Hargreaves.

He thinks Apple may beat the street when it reports numbers next week.

He's looking for the company to report revenue of

43.88 billion dollars versus the streets expectation of 43.7 billion.

Both of those are at the high end of Apple's guidance of between 42 billion and 44 billion dollars.

He's also looking for earnings per share of $10.22,

3 cents better than what the rest of the street is expecting on average.

Hard Grieve's expectations are based on checks of the supply chain through the end of last month,

which indicate relatively strong iPhone sales in his estimation.

He's looking for Apple to have sold at least 39.7 million iPhones last quarter,

though he does see the potential for as much as 2 million units of upside for his firm's March

quarter iPhone estimates.

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