Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2015 third quarter ended June 27, 2015. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $49.6 billion and quarterly net profit of $10.7 billion, or $1.85 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $37.4 billion and net profit of $7.7 billion, or $1.28 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 39.7 percent compared to 39.4 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 64 percent of the quarter’s revenue.
Wall Street analysts’ consensus estimates called for Apple to report EPS of $1.81 on revenue of $49.31 billion for 31.70% YOY growth.
The growth was fueled by record third quarter sales of iPhone and Mac, all-time record revenue from services and the successful launch of Apple Watch.
“We had an amazing quarter, with iPhone revenue up 59 percent over last year, strong sales of Mac, all-time record revenue from services, driven by the App Store, and a great start for Apple Watch,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “The excitement for Apple Music has been incredible, and we’re looking forward to releasing iOS 9, OS X El Capitan and watchOS 2 to customers in the fall.”
Cook told CNBC that Android to iPhone switchers are accelerating and hit the highest rate ever this quarter. Cook also sees Apple Watch as being a big holiday gift. Apple’s cash on-hand has broken above $200 billion for the first time.
Apple Inc. Q3 2015 Unaudited Summary Data (Units in thousands, Revenue in millions) (1) Includes deferrals and amortization of related non-software services and software upgrade rights.
(2) Includes revenue from iTunes, AppleCare, Apple Pay, licensing and other services.
(3) Includes sales of Apple TV, Apple Watch, Beats Electronics, iPod and Apple-branded and third-party accessories.
“In the third quarter our year-over-year growth rate accelerated from the first half of fiscal 2015, with revenue up 33 percent and earnings per share up 45 percent,” said Luca Maestri, Apple’s CFO. “We generated very strong operating cash flow of $15 billion, and we returned over $13 billion to shareholders through our capital return program.”
Apple is providing the following guidance for its fiscal 2015 fourth quarter:
• revenue between $49 billion and $51 billion
• gross margin between 38.5 percent and 39.5 percent
• operating expenses between $5.85 billion and $5.95 billion
• other income/(expense) of $400 million
• tax rate of 26.3 percent
Apple’s board of directors has declared a cash dividend of $.52 per share of the Company’s common stock. The dividend is payable on August 13, 2015, to shareholders of record as of the close of business on August 10, 2015.
Apple will provide live streaming of its Q3 2015 financial results conference call beginning at 2:00 p.m. PDT on July 21, 2015 at www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/earningsq315. This webcast will also be available for replay for approximately two weeks thereafter.
iPhone expectations were set at exceeding 50 million units. Apple fell well short of that number and there was huge disappointment. Apple is not Amazon.
Exoectations? Lol
The company showes growth of 30% plus .
Even 25% growth on guidance.
And it drops 8 %
Because some idiot had an expectation.
The real numbers are the stellear growth.. Not some factious expectation !
You all must be new to the Apple universe. It has been the same since 1998! Nearly every time that Apple posts increased earnings and record quarters the stock dips. It is uncanny.
Perhaps the high frequency traders are trying to get an artificial dip so that they can earn billions on the bounce back?
The only intelligent post here! Amongst sea of clueless moaners and groaners.
Yahoo Finance: “Apple (AAPL) posted fiscal third-quarter profits and sales that topped analysts’ estimates, but the iPhone-maker’s current-quarter revenue outlook disappointed investors.”
Yet just as Apple starts the Conference Call Yahoo posts a head line that claims that Apple’s Revenue is “disappointing” and the stock starts dropping. . . and they claim that Apple missed the Street’s expectations on Revenue and EPS. . . but the numbers they are touting are NOT the numbers Yahoo was publishing at 8:30AM this morning! They are lying. Something stinks on Wall Street!
I noticed the same thing. Tuesday morning I wrote down the Yahoo numbers as revenue of 49.6 B and EPS 1.80
It’s only the less profitable quarter if your guidance for the future doesn’t include any exciting new products and you’re too embarrassed to tell everyone exactly how your last product intro fared.
And at the end of the day, after the game playing, AAPL is at 130.75, down 1% from the previous day. That makes sense to someone or other. Keep in mind that over the last few weeks AAPL has ridden the world economic woes trough and ended up at the end of this quarter up considerably. Overrall, it ends up making sense. With numbers like these AAPL damned well impresses, like it or not.
So funny. CNBC runs an article with the first sentence that reads: Apple reported quarterly earnings and revenue that barely beat analysts’ expectations on Tuesday.
Apple projects 21% YoY growth for the current quarter. If they top their prognosis — which is what they usually do, actual YoY growth will be at about 25%.
This value is lower than for this quarter — 33% — because calendar Q3 in last year already included starting sales of iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, which were strong boost.
For Q4 calendar quarter, it will be reasonable to expect moderate growth — maybe even within single digit figures, since the previous calendar Q4 was epic — with $74.5 billion sales. So Apple will probably top $80 billion, but it will be hard to top $90 billion.
It’s basically telling potential investors to stay clear of the company because they won’t make any money from it. Invest in any other consumer tech company if you expect to get anything back. Google, Amazon and Microsoft are safe havens to get decent quarterly returns. Even with the huge amount of money Apple makes, Apple is going to burn investors every time.
OH, yes, MAcnificentseven, Apple is so poor in decent quarterly returns that they only provided their stockholders with 121.5% of their net profits last quarter. Yes, you heard me correctly. Apple netted $10.7 Billion in net profits but returned $13 Billion to their investors last quarter! What a terrible investment! How horrid of them! What a terrible way to waste your money investing in AAPL.
As usual, the stock is tanking after hours. Ignore those bozo’s because it’s a bunch of players, hedge funds and options traders freaking out and push the after market around to position themselves for tomorrow morning.
Apple numbers are good and if these idiots are push the stock down just because they sold fewer iPads then so what, they made it up on the other items.
I really thought the idea behind a business was to make money and grow. Seems like Apple does that very, very well and is still growing and for damn sure not loosing money like Samdung. Nothing in Apples projection says anything less for next quarter.
What you’re saying is great for Apple the company, but terrible for shareholders. Amazon has already proven you don’t need profits to make a company profitable for shareholders. Instead of Apple constantly buying back shares, they should be growing the company much faster than Jeff Bezos is growing Amazon. Apple may have great focus but they’re not expanding like they could.
For those Wall Street doubters, let’s make a list of upcoming Tech from Apple that is going to blow this thing wide open . . . I’ll start the List: iPad Pro, new Macbook Pro’s with Skylake Processors (with Thunderbolt 3 and possibility for inductive charging), new Apple TV, next generation iPhone with Force Touch . . . .
Apple. Once again.
Can’t believe Wall Street. What a bunch of toasted crooks.
Get in boys and enjoy the ride!
Apple own the tech market now and the won’t let it go soon!
Great drop … now Goldman Sachs can help Apple Inc. harvest the next big chunk of Apple Inc. stock buy back, to further consolidate and drive the stock price higher.
When you look at the quarterly ‘pump and dump’ cycles that the hedge funds drive in this manner, it only helps the huge buy back scenario!
Why aren’t they doing this with Google? Google has about 83% institutional ownership while Apple has been stuck at around 60% institutional ownership for many years. That would indicate there’s something wrong with Apple because it can’t attract big investors. Apple has poured in over $100 billion in buybacks over the last six months and the stock has gone nowhere. Explain that.
So maybe the answer is in your question.. There is a possibility that with the smaller institutional ownership of AAPL relative to Google that the actual volatility of the stock is caused by large amounts of stockholders like yourself instead of the institutions.
By my figuring the Other category only increased $900 million. So if that was all Watches then far less than the 4 million most of us expected ? Is that why the huge stock loss? I really am at a loss to understand. Also a huge loss in my portfolio.
It is not a loss for your portfolio until you sell the stock. I have held on to the stock since 2005 and watched it grow 1100%. Not bad. If I had sold during the dark times the profit would have been less than half.
Don’t get me wrong – when I think aapl is over-priced I will sell. This is not the time.
Hey Dog. Don’t get me wrong, I am not selling either. I bought my first AAPL in 1995 and have never sold any. I am up more than $800,000, but to see a paper loss of nearly $90k in a heartbeat is just a bit hard to swallow. Of course this is not the first time. The 40% down not so long ago was worse and I got thru that.
Chickenshit. That’s what Apple is. The sanctimonious bleating of how well the Apple watch went. Post the numbers, what are they afraid of? Not afraid, just Chickenshit. And to lump this in the other category relegates it to shit status. God Apple, the loonies are running the show.
And drops 8%
This is totally absurd… Wtf ?
iPhone expectations were set at exceeding 50 million units. Apple fell well short of that number and there was huge disappointment. Apple is not Amazon.
Wrong.
Exoectations? Lol
The company showes growth of 30% plus .
Even 25% growth on guidance.
And it drops 8 %
Because some idiot had an expectation.
The real numbers are the stellear growth.. Not some factious expectation !
And MS lost a ton of money.
You all must be new to the Apple universe. It has been the same since 1998! Nearly every time that Apple posts increased earnings and record quarters the stock dips. It is uncanny.
Perhaps the high frequency traders are trying to get an artificial dip so that they can earn billions on the bounce back?
wallstreet charlatans
No.
Ride the hype, sell before the party.
The only intelligent post here! Amongst sea of clueless moaners and groaners.
Yahoo Finance: “Apple (AAPL) posted fiscal third-quarter profits and sales that topped analysts’ estimates, but the iPhone-maker’s current-quarter revenue outlook disappointed investors.”
3Q is always the less profitable quarter.
Yet just as Apple starts the Conference Call Yahoo posts a head line that claims that Apple’s Revenue is “disappointing” and the stock starts dropping. . . and they claim that Apple missed the Street’s expectations on Revenue and EPS. . . but the numbers they are touting are NOT the numbers Yahoo was publishing at 8:30AM this morning! They are lying. Something stinks on Wall Street!
I noticed the same thing. Tuesday morning I wrote down the Yahoo numbers as revenue of 49.6 B and EPS 1.80
It’s only the less profitable quarter if your guidance for the future doesn’t include any exciting new products and you’re too embarrassed to tell everyone exactly how your last product intro fared.
What a surprise – negative market sentiment unfortunately – arghhhhhhh !!
And at the end of the day, after the game playing, AAPL is at 130.75, down 1% from the previous day. That makes sense to someone or other. Keep in mind that over the last few weeks AAPL has ridden the world economic woes trough and ended up at the end of this quarter up considerably. Overrall, it ends up making sense. With numbers like these AAPL damned well impresses, like it or not.
So funny. CNBC runs an article with the first sentence that reads: Apple reported quarterly earnings and revenue that barely beat analysts’ expectations on Tuesday.
BFD some random clueless analcyst ‘expectations’. TechTardiness and AAPLTardiness remains rampant. It’s just too complicated, apparently.
Bravo, Tim Cook. The MVP in Tech.
AAPL disappoints with yet another record quarter.
Now, Thats what I call laughing all the way to the bank!!!!!
Apple projects 21% YoY growth for the current quarter. If they top their prognosis — which is what they usually do, actual YoY growth will be at about 25%.
This value is lower than for this quarter — 33% — because calendar Q3 in last year already included starting sales of iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, which were strong boost.
For Q4 calendar quarter, it will be reasonable to expect moderate growth — maybe even within single digit figures, since the previous calendar Q4 was epic — with $74.5 billion sales. So Apple will probably top $80 billion, but it will be hard to top $90 billion.
Nice analysis, @derss.
Held to a higher standard…..
How disappointed!. This quarter missed estimates, stock plunges. Last quarter beats expectation, stock also plunged. What does that say to you?.
It’s basically telling potential investors to stay clear of the company because they won’t make any money from it. Invest in any other consumer tech company if you expect to get anything back. Google, Amazon and Microsoft are safe havens to get decent quarterly returns. Even with the huge amount of money Apple makes, Apple is going to burn investors every time.
OH, yes, MAcnificentseven, Apple is so poor in decent quarterly returns that they only provided their stockholders with 121.5% of their net profits last quarter. Yes, you heard me correctly. Apple netted $10.7 Billion in net profits but returned $13 Billion to their investors last quarter! What a terrible investment! How horrid of them! What a terrible way to waste your money investing in AAPL.
yojimbo007, Your energy is better spent buying down and selling up rather than trying to impress us by your swearing.
As usual, the stock is tanking after hours. Ignore those bozo’s because it’s a bunch of players, hedge funds and options traders freaking out and push the after market around to position themselves for tomorrow morning.
Apple numbers are good and if these idiots are push the stock down just because they sold fewer iPads then so what, they made it up on the other items.
I really thought the idea behind a business was to make money and grow. Seems like Apple does that very, very well and is still growing and for damn sure not loosing money like Samdung. Nothing in Apples projection says anything less for next quarter.
What you’re saying is great for Apple the company, but terrible for shareholders. Amazon has already proven you don’t need profits to make a company profitable for shareholders. Instead of Apple constantly buying back shares, they should be growing the company much faster than Jeff Bezos is growing Amazon. Apple may have great focus but they’re not expanding like they could.
Wow Street trashed the price!
For those Wall Street doubters, let’s make a list of upcoming Tech from Apple that is going to blow this thing wide open . . . I’ll start the List: iPad Pro, new Macbook Pro’s with Skylake Processors (with Thunderbolt 3 and possibility for inductive charging), new Apple TV, next generation iPhone with Force Touch . . . .
Apple. Once again.
Can’t believe Wall Street. What a bunch of toasted crooks.
Get in boys and enjoy the ride!
Apple own the tech market now and the won’t let it go soon!
Great drop … now Goldman Sachs can help Apple Inc. harvest the next big chunk of Apple Inc. stock buy back, to further consolidate and drive the stock price higher.
When you look at the quarterly ‘pump and dump’ cycles that the hedge funds drive in this manner, it only helps the huge buy back scenario!
Take Apple private.
When will Apple buyback shares for this quarter?. and also when Apple pays out dividends?. Anyone knows?.
Your second question is answered in next to last paragraph of the article
AAPL is buying back shares RIGHT NOW. They are forbidden to buyback shares before earnings. Not sure of timeframe cutoff.
Why aren’t they doing this with Google? Google has about 83% institutional ownership while Apple has been stuck at around 60% institutional ownership for many years. That would indicate there’s something wrong with Apple because it can’t attract big investors. Apple has poured in over $100 billion in buybacks over the last six months and the stock has gone nowhere. Explain that.
So maybe the answer is in your question.. There is a possibility that with the smaller institutional ownership of AAPL relative to Google that the actual volatility of the stock is caused by large amounts of stockholders like yourself instead of the institutions.
By my figuring the Other category only increased $900 million. So if that was all Watches then far less than the 4 million most of us expected ? Is that why the huge stock loss? I really am at a loss to understand. Also a huge loss in my portfolio.
It is not a loss for your portfolio until you sell the stock. I have held on to the stock since 2005 and watched it grow 1100%. Not bad. If I had sold during the dark times the profit would have been less than half.
Don’t get me wrong – when I think aapl is over-priced I will sell. This is not the time.
Hey Dog. Don’t get me wrong, I am not selling either. I bought my first AAPL in 1995 and have never sold any. I am up more than $800,000, but to see a paper loss of nearly $90k in a heartbeat is just a bit hard to swallow. Of course this is not the first time. The 40% down not so long ago was worse and I got thru that.
Apple pulverized the street every quarter for the past 10 years. They still don’t get it. IDIOTS!!!?😡
Chickenshit. That’s what Apple is. The sanctimonious bleating of how well the Apple watch went. Post the numbers, what are they afraid of? Not afraid, just Chickenshit. And to lump this in the other category relegates it to shit status. God Apple, the loonies are running the show.