Apple’s record-breaking Q4 results & a couple of Nano notes
Hope you’re good with numbers: $3.68B revenue, $430M profit or $.50/share compared to $2.35B revenue, $106M profit or $.13/share in the year-ago quarter. They’ve sold 6,451M iPods “reporting the highest revenue and earnings in the company’s history”. Unfortunately, analysts (those damned analysts!) expect 8M iPods to be sold, so the company’s shares went down 10% yesterday.
What’s interesting to me is that “international sales accounted for 40 percent of the quarter’s revenue”—I’d think that Apple’s presence outside the US is much smaller. Furthermore a few Nano-related notes from the conference call with analysts and the media, courtesy of AppleInsider:
- Apple’s iPod nano backlog issues are a result of a component constraint, not manufacturing or product mix (2GB/4GB or B/W issues), the company claims.
- Demand for the nano is “staggering” said Apple’s only executive vice president, Tim Cook.
Apple reports record-setting quarterly results [appleinsider.com]
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