Apple’s youngest on Friday night Quarterly figures for the months of October, November and December 2024 Presented. Apple came to sell $ 124.3 billion in sales with a net profit of 36.3 billion. It matches $ 2.40 per water share. In the same period, Apple achieved sales of $ 119.6 billion, with a net profit of $ 33.9 billion or $ 2.18 per stock stock. The operational advantage in the Christmas quarter was $ 42.8 billion, the operative cash flow (“cash generated by operating activities”) reached $ 29.9 billion. In the event of sales and benefits per share, Apple defeated Wall Street’s analyst’s estimates $ 124.1 billion and $ 2.35 per share. The cordless baby remains an iPhone in China: the market stunned there clearly shrunk.
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China Down, Mac and iPad Up
The total turnover in the People’s Republic fell 11 percent to $ 18.5 billion, analysts expected an increase of 21.6 billion. The reason for this is clearly primary that users are rapidly becoming local smartphones from providers such as Huawei. IPhone – The total sales in the 16 series were presented in September – less than 1 percent increased to 69.1 billion. The slow start of Apple Intelligence was clearly not helpful here. Despite the problems in China, Apple received new maximum value for total sales, per share profit and sale in service business. Sales on Mac (8.9 billion after 7.7 billion in the previous year) and iPad (8 billion instead of 7.0 billion) increased significantly, the service division rose to $ 3 billion to $ 26.3 billion. The business of Apple Watch, Home and Accessories decreased minimum – from 11.95 billion to $ 11.74 billion.
Apple’s boss Tim Cook emphasized the record: “We reported our best quarter today, with 4 percent more sales,” he said. “Apple Intelligence’s new possibilities will be opened by the performance of Apple Silicon”. However, not all the functions of the AI system are still available, technology will come to the European Union in April. Related. Shortly after the announcement of the numbers, the share was 0.75 percent in minus.
Positive development in AI markets
Apple further announced that you would again pay dividends. It is 25 US Saint per share certificate and will be paid from 13 February. Kevan Parekh, the new CFO of Apple announced that the shareholders returned to a total of $ 30 billion in the last quarter, which was returned to shareholders in returns and dividends. The established base has again reached maximum – maximum in all product segments and geographical regions.
In market distribution, Europe was able to get $ 3 billion in sales, about 2 billion in the United States, Japan was more than one billion. Cook shared im Analyzer After the announcement of quarterly data, you can see positive development in Apple Intelligence. In all markets that have AI system available, business has increased compared to the previous year. “It gives us a positive indicator from whom we are satisfied.” The 16-series model is also said to have sold better than the 15-soons. However, sales shrunk.
(BSC)
