Apple's iPhone profit margin greater than 50 percent
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(InfoWorld) - Each 8GB iPhone sold by Apple Inc. puts $333 more in the till than the device cost to build, a market research company said Tuesday after tearing apart the new phone. iSuppli calculated the bill of materials and manufacturing costs of the $599 8GB iPhone as $263.83, giving Apple a profit margin of nearly 56 percent on the device. The tear-down analysis only spells out what's inside the iPhone, component prices, and estimated cost to make; it doesn't take into account research and development or marketing costs. Earlier this year and before iPhones were actually available, iSuppli had pegged the cost at $264.85. As other tear-down artists have done, iSuppli named the suppliers of iPhone components. Infineon Technologies, a German semiconductor supplier, provided much of the core communications capabilities of the device, including the digital baseband, radio frequency transceiver, and power management chips, said iSuppli. Infineon's parts accounted for $15.25 of the iPhone's bill of materials, or 6.1 percent of the total. Samsung, however, was the biggest winner, said iSuppli, with $76.25 in bill of materials, or 30.5 percent of the phone's total. Samsung contributed the applications processor -- which includes an ARM RISC core -- as well as the iPhone's NAND flash memory and dynamic RAM. The exact same NAND flash is also used in the 8GB iPod nano, said rival tear-down research company Semiconductor Insights on Monday (watch YouTube video), just one of several common components that let Apple apply some of its existing design expertise to the new gizmo. Among iSuppli's other findings: * Balda, a German firm, gets credit for the iPhone's touchscreen module. iSuppli priced the module at $27, or 10.8 percent of the total. * The display itself costs an estimated $24.50 and comes from multiple sources, including Epson, Sharp, and Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology. * National Semiconductor contributed one chip, a $1.50 serial display interface, but it was still singled out by iSuppli because National Semiconductor has never had a part inside an iPod. The only difference between the $499 4GB iPhone and its more expensive 8GB sibling is the amount of NAND flash memory and the $24 cost increase from 4GB to 8GB. By that accounting, the total bill of materials of the 4GB iPhone is $239.83, putting Apple's margin at almost 52 percent for the cheaper model. Most buyers, however, want the 8GB iPhone, said analysts Monday. ISuppli conducts tear downs on most Apple gear, but it doesn't always find such high margins over bill-of-materials costs. Last month, for example, iSuppli estimated the $299 Apple TV's bill of materials at $237, a margin of 20 percent.
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Apple Computer Inc.  on Wednesday reported its quarterly profit more than doubled, on strong sales of its iPod digital music player and notebook computers and said revenue and earnings for the current quarter would top Wall Street estimates.
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The iPod helped Apple's profit get up and dance. Apple Computer Inc. reported Wednesday that net income for its fourth fiscal quarter jumped 140 percent from the same period a year ago. -The Washington Post
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Apple announced on Wednesday that its quarterly profit more than doubled because of continued strong sales of iPod music players, beating Wall Street estimates by a wide margin
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AT&T Inc.  on Tuesday posted higher-than-expected quarterly profit on strong wireless subscriber growth, but results of the first two days of iPhone sales fell short of forecasts.
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Can St. Steve move up a plane? Scepticism about the launch of the Apple iPhone is growing, and it isn't helping the Apple share price. What a coincidence that exactly as things get tougher in the stock market, rumours start appearing that will "cause a 40 per cent premium on the Apple share price"!â¦
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The most expensive iPhone model could deliver profit margins of more than 55 percent for Apple Inc. , according to iSuppli, which examined the components of the widely anticipated device.
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Apple Computer&#39;s stock price hit its highest level in four years, passing the $50 mark. The company recently announced that it shipped more than two million of its wildly popular iPod music
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Apple today reported strong earnings for its fourth quarter, boosted by record Macintosh computer sales and the shipment of 1.12 million iPhones.
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That controversial price cut on the iPhone paid off in big numbers for Apple in the quarter ending Sept. 29. The company announced as well that it set a new sales record for the Macintosh, wowing analysts.
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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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InfoWorld - Apple reported strong quarterly earnings boosted by record Macintosh computer and iPhone sales on Monday.
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For its fiscal 2004 fourth quarter, Apple posted a net profit of $106 million, or $.26 per diluted share. These results compare to a profit of $44 million, or $.12 per share, a year ago. Revenue for the quarter was $2.35 billion, up 37% from a year ago. Gross margin was 27%, up from 26.6% last year. International sales accounted for 37% of revenue. [Oct 13]
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Apple posted a quarterly profit today that more than quadrupled on skyrocketing sales of its iPod digital music players and strong demand for its PowerBook notebook PCs.
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Investor's Business Daily - All those long lines of first-day Apple iPhone buyers didn&#39;t immediately pay off as expected for the device&#39;s service provider, AT&amp;T, but the company on Tuesday still reported better-than-expected earnings, aided by strong wireless growth.
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Apple Computer Inc. AAPL.O on  Wednesday posted a quarterly profit that more than quadrupled  on skyrocketing sales of its iPod digital music players and  strong demand for its PowerBook notebook PCs.
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Apple reported a 57 percent jump in first-quarter profit, but it also gave a forecast that missed analysts' estimates, sending shares down.