{"id":743918,"date":"2013-03-28T07:16:53","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T11:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=401595"},"modified":"2013-03-28T07:16:53","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T11:16:53","slug":"blackberry-turns-surprise-profit-in-q4-despite-missing-revenue-estimates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/743918","title":{"rendered":"BlackBerry turns surprise profit in Q4 despite missing revenue estimates"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/28\/blackberry-q4-2012-earnings-401595\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"650\" height=\"580\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/bgr-img_00061.jpg?w=650&#038;h=580&#038;crop=1&#038;resize=650%2C580\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"BlackBerry Q4 2012\" title=\"BlackBerry\" \/><\/a><\/center>BlackBerry (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=bbry\">BBRY<\/a>) on Thursday reported a surprise profit of $0.22 earnings per share despite generating lower-than-expected revenues of $2.7 billion in its fourth fiscal quarter. All the same, the company should be pleased to turn a profit since consensus expectations for the firm were a net loss of\u00a0$0.39 EPS on revenues of $2.84 billion. On the quarter BlackBerry shipped 6 million total smartphones, including 1 million <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/blackberry-z10\">BlackBerry Z10<\/a> devices, although its subscriber base shrank to 76 million from 79 million in the previous quarter.\u00a0But despite <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/12\/20\/rim-q3-subscriber-loss-analysis-261538\/\">the erosion in its subscriber base<\/a>, BlackBerry's return to profitability on the quarter is a significant achievement, especially considering that it posted a yearly\u00a0a net loss of $646 million for the full year in 2012.<img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/65f7a4lYrx0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BlackBerry (BBRY) on Thursday reported a surprise profit of $0.22 earnings per share despite generating lower-than-expected revenues of $2.7 billion in its fourth fiscal quarter. All the same, the company should be pleased to turn a profit since consensus expectations for the firm were a net loss of\u00a0$0.39 EPS on revenues of $2.84 billion. On [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-743918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-37wG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}