Strong Sales Boost Apple Revenue 35 Percent
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Apple said its revenue rose by 35 percent to $9.6 billion in its year-ending business quarter, driven by record Macintosh, iPod and iPhone sales as well as strong demand for the company's latest software release. Net profit rose to $1.58 billion, or $1.76 per share, versus $1 billion in the fourth quarter of 2006.
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NEW YORK, October 14  - Apple Computer (AAPL.NAS) reported its highest fourth-quarter sales in the past nine years for 4Q FY04, while the company&#39;s quarterly profits more than doubled on ay/y basis.
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It was a very good year for Apple, which capped a strong Mac-adoption year with a holiday sales push that gives the company a record-setting 8% market share.
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Apple Computer beat third-quarter profit expectations, crediting the continued popularity of its iPod music players and growing interest in Macintosh computers.
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Someone activate the reality distortion field Apple reported its best quarter ever, as sales of iPods, Macs and iPhones lifted profit by a staggering 57 per cent. But unexpectedly low guidance for the current quarter, combined with flattening iPod sales in the US, sparked analyst concerns that a flagging US economy might dampen Apple's future.â¦
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Fruity one nears a billion in fiscal Q4 Apple is celebrating a strong fourth quarter with revenues of $6.22bn in the three months ending 29 September 2007, and a profit of $904m, or just over $1 a share.â¦
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Apple Computer Inc.'s first-quarter earnings more than quadrupled, dramatically exceeding Wall Street expectations, based on strong holiday sales of laptop computers and its wildly popular iPod music players.
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Announcing its  fiscal 2007 fourth quarter results, Apple reported today that it had 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. In the fourth quarter, Apple shipped 2,164,000 Macs, representing 34% growth over the year-ago quarter and exceeding the previous quarterly record for Mac shipments by 400,000. Apple also sold 10,200,000 iPods (representing 17% growth over the year-ago quarter) and 1,119,000 iPhones, bringing cumulative fiscal 2007 iPhone sales to 1,389,000.
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Apple Computer Inc.  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 Inc  beat Wall  Street targets with a 67 percent rise in quarterly profit on  Monday, led by strong sales of its Macintosh computers and a  big first full quarter from the iPhone, sending its shares up  nearly 6 percent.
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Surge in sales of iPods, Macs buoy revenue a day after the company announces lower-price versions of both products.
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Blog: A quantitative estimate of Apple's weekend iPhone sales has been released, surpassing some of the more optimistic analysts last week.
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Apple posted a higher quarterly profit today, boosted by strong sales of its iPod digital music player and notebook computers.
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Apple rises with a forecast of higher earnings.
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Shares of Apple Inc.  rose  more than 4 percent to an all-time high on Thursday as  investors bet on strong demand for its media-playing iPhone and  speculation mounted over plans to sell the device in Europe.
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Apple Inc.  sold about 525,000 iPhones at Apple and AT&T Inc.  stores in the first weekend since its June 29 launch, the Los Angeles Times reported on Monday, citing an analyst.
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Apple Inc.  is expected to show a 35 percent surge in quarterly profit this week, but the focus will be on just two days: the last 48 hours of June when its highly anticipated iPhone went on sale.