“From mind-boggling iPhone sales to an iPad division that sold more than 54 million units in Apple’s fiscal 2015 (which ended Sept. 26), despite some claims the tablet is a no-growth area, Apple’s size and scale are truly impressive,” Chris Ciaccia reports for The Street. “In fiscal 2015, the iPhone by itself generated $155 billion in sales, more revenue than nearly all of the companies in the S&P 500, including such mega-caps as Amazon, Alphabet, Facebook, Microsoft and others.”
“Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters expect the company to earn $3.23 a share on $76.6 billion in revenue for the fiscal first quarter,” Ciaccia reports. “Apple is slated to report earnings after the bell on Jan. 26, when it is expected to show slowing iPhone growth.”
Ciaccia reports, “Apple is expected to ship around 76 million iPhones in the fiscal first quarter, a growth rate of less than 2% year over year.”
Check out the infographic in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Considering that Apple set themselves up for this year’s “tough compare” by generating tremendous pent-up demand for iPhone 6/Plus after being late with properly-sized iPhones by at least two years (giving the iPhone knock off peddlers a free pass into the market), any beat on iPhone unit sales, even if only by one unit, would be impressive. Of course, even if it’s by 2 million units, the bears and shorts won’t view or portray it as such.
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