74.4 million iPhones, 21.4 million iPad tablets, 5.5 million Macs and millions of iPods were sold in Q1 2015 (Q4 2014) for the rest of the world) by Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),. The American company had 74.6 billion dollars in receipts, 18 billion dollars in profit, this being the most profitable fiscal quarter in its history. Making a comparison with the same period last year, the Apple company had 17 billion more revenues and 4.9 billion more profit, terminal sales iPhone 6 si 6 iPhone Plus helping it to substantially increase its financial performance.
China was the main "engine" of growth for the company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),, those from Cupertino becoming the main smartphone sellers there in an extremely interesting fiscal quarter. For the first time in history Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), has sold more smartphones in China than in the US, so we are talking about a real achievement for those from Cupertino in the last three months. Most analysts around the world expected great achievements from the Apple company and it seems that it did not disappoint, so the price of its shares will most likely increase accordingly in the following hours.
At 12:00 the Apple company will hold a press conference to discuss its financial results, and here you will find all the details presented by it.
Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2015 first quarter ended December 27, 2014. The Company posted record quarterly revenue of $74.6 billion and record quarterly net profit of $18 billion, or $3.06 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $57.6 billion and net profit of $13.1 billion, or $2.07 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 39.9 percent compared to 37.9 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 65 percent of the quarter's revenue.
The results were fueled by all-time record revenue from iPhone® and Mac® sales as well as record performance of the App Store℠. iPhone unit sales of 74.5 million also set a new record.
"We'd like to thank our customers for an incredible quarter, which saw demand for Apple products soar to an all-time high," said Tim Cook, Apple's CEO. "Our revenue grew 30 percent over last year to $74.6 billion, and the execution by our teams to achieve these results was simply phenomenal."
"Our exceptional results produced EPS growth of 48 percent over last year, and $33.7 billion in operating cash flow during the quarter, an all-time record," said Luca Maestri, Apple's CFO. "We spent over $8 billion on our capital return program, bringing total returns to investors to almost $103 billion, over $57 billion of which occurred in just the last 12 months."
Apple is providing the following guidance for its fiscal 2015 second quarter:
• revenue between $52 billion and $55 billion
• gross margin between 38.5 percent and 39.5 percent
• operating expenses between $5.4 billion and $5.5 billion
• other income/(expense) of $350 million
• tax rate of 26.3 percent
Apple's board of directors has declared a cash dividend of $.47 per share of the Company's common stock. The dividend is payable on February 12, 2015, to shareholders of record as of the close of business on February 9, 2015.
