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Apple Q4 2005 earnings
As planned, Apple announced their financial
results - the highest revenue and earnings in the Company’s history - for the fourth quarter of its fiscal year 2005, which ended September 24, 2005. For those of you who play the numbers, here's where things stand. Apple reported revenues of $3.68 billion with net quarterly profit of $430 million ($.50 per diluted share). Compare with results from a year ago, which saw revenues of $2.35 billion and net quarterly profit of $106 million ($.13 per diluted share). That's what we call GROWTH. Gross margins were 28.1 percent, up from 27 percent in the year-ago quarter and international sales accounted for 40 percent (!!!) of the quarter’s revenue.
So where did all the money come from? Apple reports that they shipped 1,236,000 Macintosh computers (roughly half of those were portable computers, i.e. iBooks, Powerbooks) units and 6,451,000 iPods, both of which are huge gains over a year ago. Apple continues to withhold specific numbers for each product line, so you'll have to guess which iPod or which Mac are Steve's favorite sons. For fiscal 2005 overall, Apple has seen revenues of $13.93 billion and a net profit of $1.335 billion, reflecting annual growth of 68 percent and 384 percent, respectively, and representing the highest annual revenue and net profit in the Company’s history.
“This is the direct result of our focus on innovation and the immense talent and creativity at Apple. We could not be more excited about the new products we’re working on for 2006.” said Steve Jobs. Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s CFO, also predicted revenues of $4.7 billion for Q1 2006.
If you find these numbers as sexy as I do, you might want to tune in to the live webcast, which is still happening right now.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jonny said 5:53PM on 10-11-2005
Jeebus!!
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Laurie said 5:54PM on 10-11-2005
The call is still going on but I've been listening so long I need a cigarette already. Yes.. it's THAT good :)
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Al Willis said 6:05PM on 10-11-2005
Of course, as often happens, Apple stock is down in after hours trading--almost 11%. I suspect that Apple didn't meet the whisper number regarding the number of iPods for the quarter.
But the numbers are incredible. As Cramer would say--"mon back"!
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niji said 7:04PM on 10-11-2005
you are wrong.
the whisper number was .32
AAPL hit .50
think different, but still think correctly.
peace.
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Rob said 12:59AM on 10-12-2005
I'm not a big stock person, so what is the "whisper number"? I can infer that it is some internal Apple number that they hope to meet. Is that it?
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Al Willis said 2:15AM on 10-12-2005
niji (#4), lets get our facts straight. The consensus estimate for Apple was .37 per share. Apple did make .50 per share, but after you subtract the special tax item of .12 (a one time event), Apple made .38 per share, just penny a head of estimates.
The number I was actually referring to was the iPod number--lots of analysts were expecting more than 8 million iPods to be sold and Apple "only" sold 6.45 million.
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Berkana said 2:52AM on 10-12-2005
Somebody needs to go and find that pundit who was predicting Apple's demise and feed him his shorts with some brown sauce.
I remember back when it was un-cool to be a Mac user at school, while the proud few displayed their Apple sticker decorated gear at the risk of being mocked or worse. . . I almost feel vindicated now.
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