&gt;<i>I don&#x27;t want to soapbox too much, but there is something deeply wrong with capitalism when you can be more profitable than any corporation that has ever existed and it seems like a letdown.</i><p>Why is this a surprise, let alone a knock against capitalism?<p>Share price at any given moment is based on available information, meaning the current price is based on <i>expected</i> phone sales, exchange rates, revenue, profits, etc.  Those expectations were high going into earnings.