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Apple’s Bite at the Apple

Highest Quarterly Profits of Any Public Company in History

Record Company Revenues

Apple announces $18.9 Billion in profit for the First Quarter of FY 2015 (1)

Previous Record Holders:

Chi-Phones?

$74.6Quarterly Revenue:

Billion (1)5.52

Mac Sales:

millionunits (1)

21.3million

units (1)

iPad Sales

$4.8Services Revenue:

Billion(apps, iTunes, etc.) (1)

74.5iPhone Sales:

millionunits (2)

46%which was

aboveFQ1 2014 (3)

>33,000 That’s

iPhones soldper hour

$50Despite a

increase inthe retail price (3)

$18.9

5

0

10

15

20

$16.8 (2)

Shell (Netherlands)

$16.2 (2)

Gazprom (Russia)

$15.9 (1) 

Exxon Corporation

$3.06 $142 Billion

Just How Big is Apple, Now? 

70% $16.1 21.6%

Chi-Phones? The Impact of Sales in the Greater China Region

growth in Sales (2) Billion in Revenue (2) of total revenue (2)

Quarterly Earnings and Cash Reserves

Quarterly Earnings:

per diluted share (1) in net cash reserves (4)

It’s more than

3 timesthe quarterlyprofit reported 

by Microsoft (5)

How Does Apple’s Quarterly Profit Stack Up?

It’s nearly4 timesthe quarterlyprofit reportedby Samsung (5)

It’s more than 435 of the companies

in the S&P 500 index each made

in total profits since 2009 (3)

It’s more thanthe market capof the bottom240 companiesof the S&P 500 (5)

It’s more than the combined net

profit of all 50 companies

that make up India’s Nifty 50 (5)

Apple is the most valuable company in the world

 The company’s market cap stands at $630 billion

(1) Staff, “Apple obliterates expectations, selling 74.5M iPhones & earning $18B in profit,” 27 January 2015, sourced 30 January 2015, http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/01/27/

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(2) Parmy Olson, Forbes, “Apple Posted The Biggest Quarterly Profit In History,” Forbes, 1-28-2014, sourced 30 January 2015, http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2015/01/28/apple-posted-the-biggest-quarterly-profit-in-history/

(3) Daisuke Wakabayashi, “‘Staggering’ iPhone Demand Helps Lift Apple’s Quarterly Profit by 38%,” The Wall Street Journal, 28 January 2015, sourced 30 January 2015,http://www.wsj.com/articles/staggering-iphone-demand-helps-lift-apples-quarterly-profit-by-38-1422394222

(4) BBC, “Apple posts the biggest quarterly profit in history,” BBC News Business, 28 January 2015, sourced 30 January 2015, http://www.bbc.com/news/business-31012410

(5) Varun Sinha, “Decoded: Apple’s Record Quarterly Profit of $18 Billion,” NDTV Profit, 29 January 2015, sourced 30 January 2015, http://profit.ndtv.com/news/tech-media-telecom/

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 That’s more than the market cap of 483 of the S&P 500 companies (5)

It’s enough to pay every American $556 (5)