Apple posts highest Q4 revenue in almost a decade
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Apple Computer's iPod music player helped the company increase revenue at a dizzying rate, leading to its highest fourth-quarter revenue in nine years.
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Apple Computer Inc. AAPL.O on  Wednesday posted a quarterly profit that blew past even the  highest Wall Street forecasts on skyrocketing sales of its iPod  digital music players and the highest number of Macintosh  computers sold in more than four years.
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Apple announced financial results Monday that were the corporate equivalent of a grand slam. With the iPod, iPhone, and Mac computer on base, the company hit a home run in its fiscal fourth quarter.
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Apple Computer has announced that its fourth-quarter profit more than doubled because of continued strong sales of iPod music players, beating Wall Street estimates by a wide margin despite a shortage of semiconductors used in its computers.
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The iPhone was the fourth highest-selling handset in the US in the third quarter, according to data compiled by research firm Strategy Analytics.
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Fueled by piping-hot Mac sales, Apple reports the best quarterly performance in the company's history.
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Apple Inc.  on Wednesday  said its quarterly profit rose 73 percent from a year earlier,  zooming past expectations on strong Macintosh computer sales  and helping to send its shares up nearly 10 percent.
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Apple reported strong earnings for its fourth quarter on Monday, boosted by record Macintosh computer sales and the shipment of 1.12 million iPhones.The company beat analyst estimates with net income of $904 million, or $1.01 per share, compared with $542 million, or $0.62 per share, in net income reported in last year&#39;s fourth quarter. Analysts polled by Thomson Financial estimated a consensus of $760.45 million in net income and earnings of $0.84 per share for the quarter ended Sept. 29.The company reported $6.22 billion in revenue, up from $4.84 billion in the fourth quarter last year. The revenue consensus from analysts polled by Thomson was for $6.07 billion.For fiscal 2007, Apple reported net revenue of $24 billion and net income of $3.5 billion, said Peter Oppenheimer, Apple&#39;s CFO, in a conference call with financial analysts.Looking ahead, the company estimates that revenue will hit $9.2 billion with earnings per share of $1.42 for the first fiscal quarter of 2008, Oppenheimer said.The company shipped 2.16 million Macs during the quarter, a 34 percent growth over the year-ago period, Apple said in a news release.Mac sales increased worldwide, spurred by back-to-school promotions, said Tim Cook, Apple&#39;s COO, on the call. In addition to rapid growth in the U.S. and Europe, Mac unit shipments also increased in Japan, a major market where Apple has traditionally struggled to grow, Cook said.Shipment of Mac notebooks, including MacBook and MacBook Pro, grew 31 percent year-over-year and accounted for 62 percent of all Macs sold, Oppenheimer said.Given the success of this back-to-school period, Mac sales could be flat in the upcoming quarter, Cook warned.Sales of the iPhone are outpacing those of the iPod during the first few months after its 2001 introduction, Cook said. The company shipped 1.39 million iPhones during the year and saw a spike in sales after a $200 price drop of the 8GB iPhone from $599 to $399 in September.Apple is confident it will sell 10 million iPhones in the next calendar year, Cook said.Apple sold 10.2 million iPods during the quarter, a 17 percent year-over-year growth. iPod has sold 120 million units to date, Oppenheimer said. The upcoming holiday shopping season will be a big quarter for iPod sales, Oppenheimer said.Apple had a busy quarter with multiple product announcements.Last month, it unveiled the&#160;iPod Touch, a portable multimedia player with a touchscreen user interface and Wi-Fi capabilities. It also announced availability of the iPhone in Europe, with U.K. network operator O2 (UK) Ltd. slated to start shipping the device in November.The company is excited about entering the Europe market, and plans to enter the Asia-Pacific market in 2008, Cook said.On the software front, Apple announced iWork &#39;08, its office applications suite, in August. Mac OS X Leopard, Apple&#39;s latest operating system, will begin shipping later this week.This story was updated on October 22, 2007
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Shares of Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL.O) rose to an almost four-year high on Thursday ahead of the launch of Hewlett-Packard Co.'s (HPQ.N) version of the iPod digital music player and Apple's revamped iMac computer.
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Apple Computer Inc.  on Thursday said sales of songs bought from its market-leading iTunes online music store had topped 200 million, a figure that was about in line with what some analysts had been expecting.
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Appleâs earnings beat analystsâ expectations on record sales of its Macintosh computers, showing that Apple is climbing back into the league of dominant computer makers.
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Apple Computer reports a 50% jump in fourth quarter profit, driven by strong demand for its iPod music player.
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Apple on Monday reported a $904 million profit or $1.01 per diluted share on revenue of $6.22 billion for its fiscal fourth quarter. The quarter was strengthened by record Mac sales as well as high iPod and iPhone sales.
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InfoWorld - Apple reported strong quarterly earnings boosted by record Macintosh computer and iPhone sales on Monday.
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Shares of Apple Computer Inc.AAPL.O  rose more than 10 percent in early trade on Thursday, boosted  by its report that quarterly profit and revenue jumped on  robust sales of its iPod digital music players, and optimism  for results in the current quarter.
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SAN FRANCISCO  - Shares of Apple Computer Inc.  rose to an almost four-year high on Thursday ahead of the launch of Hewlett-Packard Co.'s  version of the iPod digital music player and Apple's revamped iMac computer.
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Chip maker's fourth-quarter revenue up 10 percent, led by robust demand for server and notebook processors.