Telecom Lead America: Apple has posted 22.5 percent
increase in revenue at $35 billion in third quarter ended June 30, 2012 against
$28.6 billion in same period last year.
Its net profit was up 20.5 percent at $8.8 billion from
$7.3 billion in the corresponding quarter previous year.
Apple recorded 26 percent increase in sales in America.
America remains the largest region for the devices major.
Growth in Europe was 16 percent.
Japan business grew 33 percent, the highest among
regions.
In the Asia Pacific region, Apple showed revenue growth
of 25 percent.
Gross margin was 42.8 percent compared to 41.7 percent in
the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 62 percent of the
quarter’s revenue.
Apple sold 26 million iPhones in the quarter,
representing 28 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter.
Apple sold 17.0 million iPads during the quarter, an 84
percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter.
The company sold 4.0 million Macs during the quarter, a
two percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter.
Apple sold 6.8 million iPods, a 10 percent unit decline
from the year-ago quarter.
We’re thrilled with record sales of 17 million
iPads in the June quarter. We’ve also just updated the entire MacBook line,
will release Mountain Lion tomorrow and will be launching iOS 6 this Fall. We
are also really looking forward to the amazing new products we’ve got in the
pipeline,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO.
In the fourth fiscal quarter, Apple expects revenue of
about $34 billion.
Product Results:
The following table shows Apple’s unit sales by product
in Q3 over the past four years, with the reported change over last year’s
period.
|
Q3 Unit Sales |
2009 |
2010 |
2011 |
2012 |
Change |
|
Mac |
2.6m |
3.47m |
3.95m |
4.0m |
2% |
|
iPod |
10.2m |
9.41m |
7.54m |
6.8m |
(10%) |
|
iPhone |
5.2m |
8.4m |
20.34m |
26.0m |
28% |
|
iPad |
N/A |
3.27m |
9.25m |
17.0m |
84% |
Source: seekingalpha.com
