Apple posts record profit – Telegraaf.nl

Apple posts record profit – Telegraaf.nl

AMSTERDAM –

Apple sold 74.5 million iPhones last quarter. A new record. Sales increased by almost 30% year on year, its profit by almost 38%

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That Apple reported Tuesday after market close. Revenue climbed to more than $ 74.5 billion. Bottom line, the company kept thick $ 18 billion.

Pre was by 35 analysts expected a profit increase in the quarter by 30% compared to last year. Turnover, according to the consensus increased by 20% to $ 68.7 billion.

Apple’s own estimate in advance was $ 66.5 billion in sales.

The technology, according to Wall Street more than 66 million iPhones sold during its last quarter. This includes the profitable Christmas season. Hence those sales came out better than expected.

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They were previously estimated at 21.5 million units, a decrease of 17% compared to the year-ago quarter. Apple remained slightly below the expected 21.4 million iPads sold

The 30% additional profit would thus first of oil company Exxon as the highest ever -. In its third quarter of 2008 – have become. Outside the US, only Shell and Gazprom posted a quarterly profit more.

The market also looks at the Mac sales. Last quarter, Apple surprised analysts by depositing 5.5 miijoen units, an increase of 20%. The desktop computer has previously been written off as more and more people would work mobile or on an iPad.

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Core earnings at Apple are still the millions of iPhones. The group has been in the hands of China’s largest market, sales are now become larger than the US domestic market.

In January, Apple reported record sales in all of its App Store. Sales increased by 50% compared to 2013. At the apps developers together earned more than € 8.5 billion

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