This evening the company Apple announced its financial results for Q2 2013(Q1 2013 for the rest of the world) and in some ways surprised quite a lot of people. Apple sold more iPhones than most US analysts expected, beat forecasts for iPad tablet sales, made more money, but stagnated in terms of Mac sales and had a smaller profit than in the same period last year. Even so, Apple managed to collect 9.5 billion dollars in accounts at a time when sales usually stagnate, but this will not help it much in recovering the value of shares on the American stock market.
Below you have details from the audio conference now taking place in Cupertino, Tim Cook, Peter Oppenheimer and other Apple employees presenting the financial results:
- 85 million iPhones and 42 million iPad tablets were sold in Q1 and Q2 2013;
- Over 90 billion dollars were collected in Q1 and Q2 2013;
- Apple is preparing a series of new, important products to be launched in the fall of 2013 and in 2014;
- The App Store is available in 155 countries, the iTunes Store is available in 119 countries;
- Tim Cook promises many surprises from the company;
- Apple returned 10 billion in the dividend return and share buyback program;
- Apple will return 100 billion dollars to shareholders, by buying back shares, until the end of 2015;
- iPad tablet sales and iTunes receipts generated an 11% increase in total receipts for Q1 2013;
- 11.6 million iPhones are in Apple's distribution channel;
- The loyalty rate of iPhone owners is 95%;
- Apple had the most iPad tablets sold in China and Japan;
- Sales of iPad Mini tablets increased in Q2 2013;
- 4.8 million iPad tablets are available in Apple's distribution channel;
- 5.7 million iPods were sold in Q2 2013;
- 2.4 billion dollars in receipts were recorded by the iTunes Store;
- $9 billion was paid to iOS app developers;
- 4.5 billion dollars were generated by the App Store in the last year;
- Over 850.000 applications are available in the App Store;
- 350.000 applications for iPad are available in the App Store;
- 800 applications are downloaded every second from the App Store;
- 45 billion applications were downloaded from the App Store;
- 300 million iCloud accounts have been activated to date;
- 5.2 billion dollars were generated by Apple Stores, 400 million dollars more than in Q2 2012;
- 402 Apple stores are open worldwide, over 30 stores are to be opened this year;
- The average receipts for the Apple Store are 13.1 million dollars;
- 91 million people visited Apple stores in Q2 2013, 6 million more than in the same period last year;
- 17.500 people visit an Apple Store every week;
- 144.7 billion dollars are available in cash and investments;
- Over 100 billion dollars are outside the US;
