Apple's first-quarter earnings per share and revenue exceeded Wall Street analysts had expected, but iPhone sales and second-quarter outlook disappointed expectations, after its share price rose slightly.
Apple's board of directors announced that it will distribute a cash dividend of $ 0.63 per share to common shareholders of the company, which will be paid on February 15, 2018 to registered shareholders whose business hours ended on February 12, 2018.
Detailed performance:
For the first quarter ended December 30, 2017, Apple posted net profit of $ 20,065 million, up 12% from $ 17,891 million in the same period last year; diluted earnings per share of $ 3.69, up from $ 3.36 in the same period last year.
Apple's first-quarter operating profit of 26.274 billion US dollars, higher than the same period last year's 23.359 billion US dollars.
Apple first-quarter net revenues of 88.293 billion US dollars, 78.351 billion US dollars over the same period last year increased by 13%, of which international sales accounted for 65%.
Apple's first-quarter gross profit of 33.912 billion US dollars, higher than the same period last year's 301.76 billion US dollars.
Apple's first-quarter earnings per share and revenue exceeded Wall Street analysts had expected.According to Yahoo Finance statistics show that 30 analysts had an average of the first quarter expected Apple Inc. earnings per share of 3.86 US dollars, 30 Analysts had on average expected Apple's first-quarter revenue of 87.28 billion US dollars.
Product sales:
Apple sold 77.316 million iPhones in the first quarter of 2007, down 1% from 78.29 million in the same period last year; a total of 13.17 million iPads were sold, up 1% from 13.08 million in the same period last year; 511.2 were sold Wan Mac, 5,774,000 units over the same period last year fell 5%.
Apple's iPhone sales in the first quarter were less than those of the 79 million Wall Street analysts had expected on average.
By region:
Apple's first-quarter revenue in the Americas segment was 35.193 billion U.S. dollars, up 10% from 31,968 million U.S. dollars in the same period last year.
Revenue for the European sector was 21.054 billion U.S. dollars, up 14% from 18.521 billion U.S. dollars for the same period last year.
Greater China revenue of 17.956 billion US dollars, 16.233 billion US dollars over the same period last year increased 11%;
Japanese department revenue was 7.237 billion U.S. dollars, up 26% over the 5.766 billion U.S. dollars in the same period of last year.
Revenue from other parts of Asia Pacific was 6.853 billion U.S. dollars, up 17% from 58.63 billion U.S. dollars in the same period of last year.
By product:
Apple's first quarter revenue from the iPhone was 61.576 billion U.S. dollars, up 13% from 54.378 billion U.S. dollars in the same period last year.
Revenues from the iPad for the 58.62 billion US dollars, 5.533 billion US dollars over the same period last year increased by 6%;
Revenues from Macs were $ 6,895 million, down 5% from $ 7,244 million in the same period last year.
Revenue from services was $ 8,471 million, an increase of 18% from $ 7,172 million in the same period last year.
Revenue from other products was $ 5.489 billion, up 36% from $ 4,024 million in the same period last year.
Performance expectations:
Apple Inc. made the following second quarter results for fiscal year 2018:
Revenue for the 60 billion US dollars to 62 billion US dollars;
Gross profit margin is 38% to 38.5%.
Operating expenses were 7.6 billion U.S. dollars to 7.7 billion U.S. dollars.
Other income is 300 million U.S. dollars;
The tax rate is about 15%.
Apple's second-quarter revenue expectations range of 61 billion US dollars, lower than analysts had expected.According to Yahoo Finance statistics show that 31 analysts on average expected Apple's second-quarter revenue of 65.73 billion Dollars.
Capital Return Program:
Apple's board of directors announced that it will distribute a cash dividend of $ 0.63 per share to common shareholders of the company, which will be paid on February 15, 2018 to registered shareholders whose business hours ended on February 12, 2018.
Executives Comments:
Tim Cook, Apple's chief executive, said: "We are excited to announce that Apple built the largest quarter in its history and achieved broad-based growth, including from a new iPhone The iPhone X exceeded our expectations and is our best-selling iPhone every week since it went public in November last year.We also achieved another major milestone in the active installation of the device base Reaching 1.3 billion in January and an increase of 30% in just two years confirms the popularity and customer loyalty and satisfaction of our products. '
Luca Maestri, Apple's chief financial officer, said: "Our excellent operating and business performance resulted in a record profit, with a 16% increase in earnings per share. Operating cash flow is very high Strong at $ 28.3 billion, and we also returned $ 14.5 billion in cash to investors through a capital rebate program.
Price changes:
On the same day, Apple shares rose $ 0.35 on the Nasdaq regular trading to close at $ 167.78, or 0.21%.
Apple shares rose another $ 0.58 to $ 168.36, or 0.35%, in the ensuing after-hours deal at 17:05 EDT (6:02 GMT). For the past 52 weeks, Apple Inc. The price is 180.10 dollars, the lowest is 128.16 dollars.