Apple Q4 2014 - Quarterly Report Summary:
Rev = $74.6 Billion (vs $57.6 Billion a year ago quarter and $42.1 Billion last quarter)
Total Cash = $178 Billion (Up $22.7 Billion for the quarter from $155.2 Billion)
Generated $33.7 Billion cash flow and returned >$7.8 Billion via dividends and share buy backs last quarter.
$18 Billion in Profits for the quarter - All time record for any company - ever for a quarter.
Last Quarter Sales:
iPhones Sold = 74.5 Mil (vs 51 Mil a year ago quarter and 39.3 Mil last quarter)
iPads Sold = 21.4 Mil (vs 26.0 Mil a year ago quarter and 12.3 Mil last quarter)
Mac's Sold = 5.5 Mil (vs 4.8 Mil a year ago quarter and 5.5 Mil last quarter)
Misc Notes:
- 1 Billionth iOS device sold in November
- iPhone sales for the quarter worked out to an average of >30,000 iPhones sold per hour for the whole quarter.
- USA Technologies made Apple Pay available at 200,000 locations - vending machines and parking meters and kiosks.
- Apple Watch - Shipping in April 2015
- iPhone ASPs were $687 increase of $50 from the year ago quarter. So going from 32GB to 64GB for the middle tier paid off.
- 200,000 unit decline in iPhone channel inventory for the quarter vs an increase of a 1 Million units in the year ago quarter. And as expected they said they did not real supply / demand ballance until January.
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