Ondrej Holzman Apple announced financial results for the third fiscal quarter of this year, which was again a record. The Californian company's revenues increased by more than 12 billion dollars year-on-year.
Over the past three months, Apple reported revenue of $49,6 billion with a net profit of $10,7 billion. In the same period last year, the iPhone maker posted revenues of $37,4 billion and a profit of $7,7 billion. Gross margins also increased by three-tenths of a percentage point year-on-year, to 39,7 percent.
In the third fiscal quarter, Apple managed to sell 47,5 million iPhones, which is an all-time record for this period. It also sold the most Macs – 4,8 million. Services that include iTunes, AppleCare or Apple Pay recorded the highest revenue ever, for all periods: $5 billion.
"We had an amazing quarter, with iPhone revenue up 59 percent year-over-year, Mac doing well, services at an all-time high, driven by the App Store and the great launch of Apple Watch," Apple CEO Tim Cook said of the latest financial results. But the Californian company did not specifically mention the Apple Watch, as expected.
However, not too positive results came from the iPad segment, which continues to decline. Apple last sold fewer than in the third fiscal quarter of this year (10,9 million units) in 2011, when the era of the iPad was practically just beginning.
Apple CFO Luca Maestri revealed that in addition to a very high operating cash flow of $15 billion, the company returned over $13 billion to shareholders as part of the return program.
For the first time in history, Apple has more than 200 billion dollars in cash available, namely 202. In the previous quarter, it was 194 billion. If the Californian giant had not started paying dividends and returning money to shareholders in share buybacks, it would now be holding around $330 billion in cash.
The results obviously did not stun, shares in the pre-market fall by almost 7%.
Apparently because iPhone6 sales are below expectations.
Considering how Apple's shares have been rising in the past few days, I would say that it's just profit taking according to the principle of Buy the Rumor, sell the Fact...
They, even if I have 1 trillion, Siri (understand CR-SR) will come to us in 10 years, iWatch in 2 years, and iPads will gradually become iPods... I never understand how they think... In the center for quick settings in a moment will turn off mobile data, but they present it as if they came with something the world has not seen. The iPhone 6S will reportedly start at 32GB... I'm curious about the price, I'm guessing it won't be below 20. I don't know, I don't like their politics lately. Every year they break sales records, but for me it's not the good old Apple anymore. Feel free to reach me here with comments, I know that's what the discussion is about...
you're right, I've bought every iPhone up to type 5. But I really don't want to pay 20000/- for a mobile phone anymore, if my iPhone were to break now, I'd look for a cheaper version, even with Android, but really 20K for a mobile phone it doesn't look normal and it's not a question of whether I wear it or not. In addition, the phones have become much closer to each other today, android is no longer such a mr.ka...