It is being expected that the fourth quarter reports regarding the earnings of Apple will depend upon the sales of iPhone 5 and future of its iPad mini.

It has been reported that analysts have been dividing the earning reports provided by AT&T and Verizon. The retailers in together are suspected to have sold nearly 2 million of iPhone 5 devices. The sale reports have been inferred so that analysts can estimate the sales of iPhone 5 worldwide.

It is being believed that the company will be providing the fiscal fourth quarter earnings of $8.74 a share on profits of $35.8 billion. However, in case of financial 2012, the earnings are expected to be $44.28 a share on profits of $156.3 billion.

On a whole, the company is relying on iPhone 5, but most of the economic influence will be seen in the fiscal first quarter, which will finish on December 31.

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster asserted that the company has made an estimated 4.7 million iPhones active, which has increased by 27%q/q. out of the total activations, an estimated 1.3 million are of iPhone 5, which affirm that US will be delivered almost half of staring million allocation of iPhone 5's from Apple.