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Apple Posts Fourth Quarter Results

Posted October 22, 2007 at 5:49pm by iClarified · 5340 views
Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2007 fourth quarter ended September 29, 2007.

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The Company posted revenue of $6.22 billion and net quarterly profit of $904 million, or $1.01 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $4.84 billion and net quarterly profit of $542 million, or $.62 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 33.6 percent, up from 29.2 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 40 percent of the quarter's revenue.

Apple shipped 2,164,000 Macintosh computers, representing 34 percent growth over the year-ago quarter and exceeding the previous quarterly record for Mac shipments by 400,000. The Company sold 10,200,000 iPods during the quarter, representing 17 percent growth over the year-ago quarter. Quarterly iPhone sales were 1,119,000, bringing cumulative fiscal 2007 sales to 1,389,000.

We are very pleased to have generated over $24 billion in revenue and $3.5 billion in net income in fiscal 2007, said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. We're looking forward to a strong December quarter as we enter the holiday season with Apple's best products ever.”

Apple ended the fiscal year with $15.4 billion in cash and no debt, said Peter Oppenheimer, Apple's CFO. Looking ahead to the first quarter of fiscal 2008, we expect revenue of about $9.2 billion and earnings per diluted share of about $1.42.”
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