Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2006 second quarter ended April 1, 2006. The Company posted revenue of $4.36 billion and a net quarterly profit of $410 million, or $.47 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $3.24 billion and a net profit of $290 million, or $.34 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 29.8 percent, equivalent to the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 43 percent of the quarter’s revenue.
Apple shipped 1,112,000 Macintosh computers and 8,526,000 iPods during the quarter, representing 4 percent growth in Macs and 61 percent growth in iPods over the year-ago quarter.
“We’ve generated over $10 billion in revenue and almost $1 billion in earnings in the first half of fiscal 2006,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO in the press release. “Our transition to Intel processors is going very well, and our music business just experienced another quarter of outstanding growth.”
“We’re very pleased to report the second highest quarterly sales in Apple’s history, resulting in year-over-year revenue growth of 34 percent and earnings growth of 41 percent,” said Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s CFO in the press release. “Looking ahead to the third quarter of fiscal 2006, we expect revenue of about $4.2 to $4.4 billion. We expect GAAP earnings per diluted share of about $.39 to $.43, including an estimated $.04 per share expense impact from non-cash stock-based compensation, translating to non-GAAP EPS of about $.43 to $.47.”
Apple will provide live streaming of its Q2 2006 financial results conference call utilizing QuickTime, Apple’s standards-based technology for live and on-demand audio and video streaming. The live webcast will begin at 2:00 p.m. PDT on Wednesday, April 19, 2006 at http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/earningsq206/ and will also be available for replay.
The average estimate of analysts surveyed by Thomson First Call put Apple earnings at $0.43 per share on $4.54 billion in revenue for the latest quarter. In the year ago quarter, Apple earned $0.34 per share on revenue of $3.24 billion.
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That’s nothing. I made more money than that last quarter in my savings account.
Good stuff!
Oh, and now let’s watch the stock drop like a rocket…
Pretty good numbers in terms of $$$, but I’m still rather disappointed at the Mac unit numbers. It’s slow growth, and I had hopped for more. On the other hand, the Intel shift changes everything and probably had an impact as people waited to see how it would shake out (plus MacBook Pros were hard to come by). Let’s hope the next quarter is a stunner as far as Mac sales go — otherwise, Apple’s increasing image as the “iPod company” will start to concern me.
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MDN word: want, as in I want a MacBook Pro!
They do well….Stock price will most likely head lower.
My God! A miracle has occurred! The stock price has actually gone up in extended hours trading!!! Surely this is a sign of the apocalypse…!!
Share price should go up… these are great earnings even with mediocre sales. Imagine how good the next few quarters will look. Price is very low right now, 47 cents was higher than most expected. Up almost 5% after hours already. 😀
Jared White how did you expect more Mac sales when the iMac and MacBook Pro, and maybe some PowerMacs are the only ones selling ? who’s buying iBooks and PowerBooks ? and even Mac minis, which were only just updated so they don’t count .. it’s good that Mac sales were up !
Allow me to help our friend Troy Wolverton give a headline to his upcoming glass half empty article Im sure he will be writing despite Apple beating guidance.
Some ideas for the headline:
This Apple is rotten
Apple rotten to the core
This Apple stinks
Apple is crapple
Bobbing for AAPL
This Apple is peeled
Grab your profits and get out!!!
i bought way after the news at $67 but then when i read the news carefully i realized the revenue actually fell short of expectations! so i sold it all at $69
( the stock went as high as $69.30 i think )
see, the whole reason ipod-wifi was introduced was to create some profit, thats how they managed to beat the earnings estimate, with ipod wi-fi profits. ( no wonder it was priced so high ).
Almost $3 higher in extended trading!
Yeaaahh !!
ipod hifi * sorry typo.
R, don’t give up on your pessism – it’s well earned. That after-hours surge is sure to dissipate as desperate AAPL holders sell off to cover their tax checks before they bounce!
REVENUES FELL SHORT, DUHHHHHH
ARE YOU NEWBIES STUPID???
“REVENUES FELL SHORT, DUHHHHHH
ARE YOU NEWBIES STUPID??”
Cool your jets man.
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“I’m still rather disappointed at the Mac unit numbers. It’s slow growth,”
True, but remember that Apple is fighting against years of market share shrinkage. You have to add in the slowing, stoppage and reversal of the share losses to the slow growth seen today to appreciate the positive trend. It’s like Jobs spent the first 5 years bringing a huge flywheel spinning counter-clockwise to a stop. Now Apple is slowly building inertia in the clockwise direction. The wheel is big an heavy. It take a lot of little pushes to get it going. Every new advance puts energy into the wheel and spins it faster. In a few more years the rate of growth will take off and Apple’s flywheel will have the momentum to keep it spinning for years.
If anyone reading this article and its accompanying posts listens to SELL, SELL, SELL (or anyone else, for that matter, including the so-called experts), he/she should have his/her head examined.
As a wise man once said, predictions can be notoriously inaccurate, especially when they deal with the future.
If you are a short-term investor, the market will destroy you. Go to Vegas; the odds are much better.
Only long-term commitments to strong, intelligently led companies will serve your portfolio and wealth-building plans.
I’ve been long on AAPL – and will continue to be – but tomorrow’s headlines will read “iPod Sales slowing.” Which is true – at least for the previous quarter. It would be a pity for Apple not to release a new larger-screen video iPod product as well as higher-res content (i.e. movies) via the iTMS.
The analyst said they (Apple) are excited about upcoming products, not iPod products, but Mac products. A slip of the tongue? I hope not.
47 is less than 43?
I can’t listen to the call. All I get is a quicktime window that says “Apple FInancial Results Conference Call Q2-2006”. I have the latest quicktime
You know, back when Apple was hanging by a thread it was actually kind of suspenseful to wait for Apple’s financial results. I half expected to wake up some day and find out Apple had closed up or had been swallowed by some bigger company (Sony, anyone?). There was always the possibility that Macs could stop being made.
But now that they’re making billions of dollars, with no chance in hell of closing shop and stopping the manufacture of all their cool shit, it all seems rather pointless to obsess about their income. Are you really that upset that you can’t get a live connection to the conference call? Is it going to hurt you to wait an hour when scores of Mac sites are going to have half a dozen stories about it? Do you do this with any other company that happens to make stuff you like?