Apple released a quarterly report. Note that the third quarter ended in late June in the calendar of manufacturer.
Apple has managed to gain for the quarter $ 35 billion, net income was $ 8.8 billion, or $ 9.32 in diluted earnings per share. Over the same period last year the company received $ 28.6 billion in revenue, $ 7.3 billion in net income and $ 7.79 in diluted earnings per share. From this perspective, a positive trend is evident (23% in revenue and 21% of income). The profit rate has increased from 41.7% to 42.8%. Sales in international markets have formed 62% of revenue for the quarter. Mainland China has provided two thirds of Apple revenue in the Asia-Pacific region.
The volume of iPhone sales grew by 28% to 26 million units. Smart phones and accessories for them, generated $ 16.2 billion in revenue last quarter, Apple's. Sales iPad also progressed - they had sold 17 million units, an 84% increase over the previous year. Four million Mac computers were sold in the last quarter, it is only 2% more than the same period last year, but still a lot of record for the second calendar quarter. Finally, iPod shows a stable negative trend - these devices for the quarter was sold at 6.8 million units , 10% less than in the corresponding period last year - more than half of sales are on iPod touch. In August this year, Apple will pay shareholders a dividend of $ 2.65 per share.
In the fourth quarter , which coincides with the third calendar, Apple expects to gain $ 34 billion and a profit per share of $ 7.65. Mountain Lion operating system will be presented this week, and iOS 6 - in autumn this year.
Apple did not just use the comparison to the same quarter last year. In this case the financial performance deteriorated. Revenue fell from $ 39.2 billion to $ 35 billion, net income - from $ 11.6 billion to $ 8.8 billion profit rate in the first calendar quarter was equal to 47.4%. Previous quarter were sold 35.1 million smartphones and only 26 million units this year. Especially noticeable slowdown in sales of products covered by Apple's pre-crisis state of Europe. Apple Tablet PC show a positive trend - sales volumes have grown from 11.8 million to 17 million units.
It would be naive to expect from Apple representatives a revelations about future products. They just explained that rumors about the new iPhone impact on sales of existing smartphone - Apple's assume that the expectation of new smartphone have forced some buyers to refrain from purchasing an existing one. MacBook Pro with the display Retina is in short supply, but it should be removed as early as next month.