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#1 2009-10-21 6:18 pm
- Czachorski
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Apple Releases Q4 Financial Results
Apple Releases Q4 Financial Results
October 21, 2009 7:18 PM
Apple posts Q4 2009 financial results. Highest profits, Mac sales and iPhones sales ever:
CUPERTINO, California—October 19, 2009—Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2009 fourth quarter ended September 26, 2009. The Company posted revenue of $9.87 billion and a net quarterly profit of $1.67 billion, or $1.82 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $7.9 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.14 billion, or $1.26 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 36.6 percent, up from 34.7 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 46 percent of the quarter’s revenue.
Apple sold 3.05 million Macintosh® computers during the quarter, representing a 17 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 10.2 million iPods during the quarter, representing an eight percent unit decline from the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 7.4 million iPhones in the quarter, representing seven percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter.
“We are thrilled to have sold more Macs and iPhones than in any previous quarter,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We’ve got a very strong lineup for the holiday season and some really great new products in the pipeline for 2010.”
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#2 2009-10-21 7:16 pm
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Re: Apple Releases Q4 Financial Results
The price tag for Apple's wonderfully designed and manufactured stuff will always be the subject of debate, but I'll say this: Apple is one of few companies (especially in this time of corporate scandals) for which I am sincerely happy if they make a healthy profit.
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#3 2009-10-21 7:52 pm
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Glad to know we helped out this quarter...
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#4 2009-10-21 9:26 pm
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*pets 32GB Touch*
My Nephew, after being exposed and envied my Macs, bought a 13" MBP today. My sister-n-law will be buying her 1st Mac in the next day or two (iMac).
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#5 2009-10-21 9:28 pm
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SomeOneOrOther wrote:
The price tag for Apple's wonderfully designed and manufactured stuff will always be the subject of debate, but I'll say this: Apple is one of few companies (especially in this time of corporate scandals) for which I am sincerely happy if they make a healthy profit.
All I have to do is look at an ad from a magazine 15 years ago boasting of an amazing new Pentium II system for a mere $4000, and Apple's prices seem not at all unreasonable to me. Wintels are the VHS of the 00's.
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#6 2009-10-21 9:56 pm
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Metacell wrote:
SomeOneOrOther wrote:
The price tag for Apple's wonderfully designed and manufactured stuff will always be the subject of debate, but I'll say this: Apple is one of few companies (especially in this time of corporate scandals) for which I am sincerely happy if they make a healthy profit.
All I have to do is look at an ad from a magazine 15 years ago boasting of an amazing new Pentium II system for a mere $4000, and Apple's prices seem not at all unreasonable to me. Wintels are the VHS of the 00's.
Yeah, I bought my first computer, a base model PII (233Mhz / 2MB vram / 128MB cpu-ram / 10Gig HD) for $2500 CDN back in '97. Came with a Daewoo CRT that whose picture tube went white about 5 years later. At the time, almost every local shop I had been to gave me a strange look when I asked for AMD instead (I wanted to bring the price down), and news was that Cyrix was about to kick the bucket, so I wasn't going to go with them.
Apple was something I had thought about (and even talked about with colleagues, who usually gave me smart-ass responses) for a number of years even prior to that, but at that point, I had decided that they were the Lexus cars I couldn't afford. Despite all that, there were still a few die-hard Mac users at my college dorm.
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