The disclosed data indicates that Apple has achieved quarterly sales of $ 8.337 million (EUR 5.862 million) and a net quarterly profit of $ 1.23 billion (EUR 865 million), which is the equivalent of $ 1.35 per action.
Comparing these results with the results of the same quarter last year: sales of $ 7.46 billion (€ 5.246 billion) and net profit of $ 1.07 billion (€ 752 million) or $ 1.19 per share; the company’s gross margin has been 36.3 percent, higher than the 34.8 percent of the same quarter of the previous fiscal year. It is especially noteworthy that 44 percent of sales have been made outside the US.
Apple has sold, during the past quarter, a total of 2.6 million Macintosh computers, an increase of 4 percent over the same quarter of the previous year; 10.2 million iPods, a 7 percent decrease in number of units; and 5.2 million iPhones, an increase of 626 percent over the same quarter of the previous year.
According to Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, “We are creating our most innovative products yet and our customers are responding.” “We are excited to have sold more than 5.2 million iPhones during the quarter and that users have downloaded more than 1.5 billion applications from our App Store in its first year.”
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