Over 2 million Macintosh computers shipped, 10 million iPods and 1 million iPhones sold this quarter!
The financial results of Apple for the second fiscal that ended March 29, 2008 have been announced. Going to the straight figures and stats; the revenue was $7.51 billion and net quarterly profit was $1.05 billion this year as compared to the revenue of $5.26 billion and net quarterly profit of $770 million the previous year. However the gross profit margin has actually slipped down from 35. 1% last year to 32.9% this year. Most of the revenue had come from the sale of Mac computers, iPods and iPhones. Again a bit of numbers to know what the real sales are. Over 2 million (2,289,000) Macintosh computers have been shipped, 10 million (10,644,000) iPods and over 1 million (1,703,000) iPhones have been sold in the quarter. What did the biggies at Apple have to say about this?
Steve Jobs , CEO of Apple said “We’re delighted to report 43 percent revenue growth and the strongest March quarter revenue and earnings in Apple’s history. With over $17 billion in revenue for the first half of our fiscal year, we have strong momentum to launch some terrific new products in the coming quarters.”
Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s CFO said “We’re thrilled to have generated $4 billion in cash flow from operations in the first half of fiscal 2008, yielding an ending cash balance of $19.4 billion. Looking ahead to the third quarter of fiscal 2008, we expect revenue of about $7.2 billion and earnings per diluted share of about $1.00.”
To know more about the financial results, log onto www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/earningsq208/ where beginning 2 pm PDT, 23 rd April 2008, Apple will provide a live streaming of their second quarterly results.
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