Apple has announced their financial results for calendar Q4 of 2011 and Q1 of 2012, wherein the company announced revenue $46.33 billion and net profit of $13.06 billion in profit. That works out to be $13.87 per diluted share. This compares to $26.7 billion in revenue, and 6 billion in profit in the year-ago quarter. This quarter’s profit and revenue were company records.
As for the products they shipped, Apple moved 5.2 Macintosh computers in the quarter, which is a 26% increase from a year-ago. Quarterly iPhone unit sales were at 37.04 million, which is up 128% from the year-ago quarter, while also selling 15.4 million iPods, which is a 21% unit decline from the year-ago quarter. Lastly, Apple sold 15.43 million iPads which is up 111% from the year-ago quarter.
Apple’s forecast for next quarter is revenue of $32.5 billion. They normally under-promise, and over-deliver on their forecasts, so I wouldn’t be surprised if Apple actually brings in more than $32 billion.
I also found it amazing that Apple shipped 15 million iPads this quarter, but only 5 million Macs. Not counting the iPad’s lower cost as a variable, this to me, proves that the iPad, or something like it, will be future of computing. It’s already outselling Apple’s long-standing flagship product that changed the face of computing in it’s day- the Macintosh.
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