Thread: Apple nearly doubled its profits

Apple has released its results for its second fiscal quarter 2011 ends March 26 and announced a profit that nearly doubled while sales iPad are less important than foreseen.

The firm has registered with Apple over the period a turnover of 24.67 billion dollars, up 82.7% on a year for a net profit of 5.987 billion dollars, almost double (+95%) compared to second quarter of fiscal 2010 (3.074 billion dollars).

Apple also communicates various data indicating that the international accounted for 59% of its turnover over the period.*He took advantage of good results in various sectors with sales of Mac computers rose 28% year on year to 3.76 million units and a growth of 113% for iPhones (18.65 milion).



In contrast, the number of iPods shipped is fucking 17% over one year (9.02 million) and flies on Apple iPad it up to 4.69 million units during the first 3 months of the year 2011, representing a decrease of 36% compared to Q4 2010.*Note however that these figures are not surprising really given that the holiday season is conducive to purchasing this type of device and the iPad 2 was launched in late March.

Peter Oppenheimer, Apple's CFO, says he will expect a sales decline for the third quarter of fiscal 2011 which is forecast at around 23 billion dollars. Tim Cook also adds that despite the disasters that occurred in Japan, Apple did not encounter supply problems.