 Apple just announced its earnings for the second quarter of the year,
and it's once again beat estimates, with it reporting earnings of $6.40 a
share, a total of $24.67 billion in revenue, and a net profit of $5.99
billion. As for the sales breakdown everyone's waiting for, Apple says
it sold a whopping 18.6 million iPhones in the quarter (up 113 percent
over the previous year, and ahead of estimates of 16 million), plus 4.69
million iPads (actually less than the expected 6.29 million, apparently
due to supply issues), and 3.76 million Macs, which represents a 28
percent jump over the same quarter a year ago. Not surprisingly, iPods
are the one area that continues to slow, with sales of 9.02 million
representing a 17 percent decline over the previous year -- the iPod
touch accounted for more than half of those sales. One other big bright
spot for the company is the Asia Pacific region, where it saw revenue
grow a staggering 151 percent year-over-year.
Interestingly, Apple isn't providing any specific sales numbers for the
iPad 2 -- it's only saying that it sold every iPad 2 it could make in
the quarter, and that it's working hard to get it into the hands of
customers as fast as it can. It didn't add much more when pressed on the
issue later during its earnings call either, with it only going as far
as to say that the iPad has the "mother of all backlogs." |
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