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Apple's Quarterly Results

Posted by pudge on from the i-gotta-git-me-some-o-dat dept.

Juanvaldes writes "Apple posts $40 million profit for the second quarter on revenues of 1.5 billion up 4% from this quarter last year..." I thought Apple was dead. Hm!

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  1. Dead? by Gaetano · · Score: 2, Funny

    "I thought Apple was dead. Hm!"

    -1 Troll. :)

  2. Economy or Jobs? by D.A.+Zollinger · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So, is this an indicator that the economy has turned around, and people are willing to spend hard earned cash on a good computer system? Or is it the masterful leadership of Jobs that has turned this computer company around?

    Although I do think the economy is playing a part in this, I think that it is more the strong leadership of Jobs who has been able to deliver on the hype, and who has focused the creative talents of his employees to produce an excellent operating system, and some cool looking computers and computing devices.

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    1. Re:Economy or Jobs? by Surlyboi · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Careful, someone might accuse you of being under the
      influence of the Reality Distortion Field

      Still I agree with you, I don't think it's the
      economy picking back up. (Actually, it's not so
      much picked up as bottomed out, but I digress...)
      Apple's been turning in decent quarterly results
      since the downturn started. They must be doing
      something right.

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  3. Re:And you people said Apple was overpriced... by Aniquel · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Naw. Gross margins are the difference between net (absolute total) sales and cost of goods sold. What's more interesting about this is that gross margins are higher, which is good, revenue is higher (which is also good), but then earnings per share is down (arguably bad). So Apple the company seems to be doing good (w/ 4.3 billion in CA$H), but it wouldn't seem to be a great investment. Unless, of course, you bought it 10 years ago.

  4. Pie Iesu domine, dona eis requiem by SocialWorm · · Score: 4, Funny
    CART MASTER:
    Bring out your dead! [clang] Bring out your dead! [clang]

    MICROSOFT:
    Here's one.

    APPLE:
    I'm not dead!

    CART MASTER:
    'Ere. He says he's not dead!

    MICROSOFT:
    Yes, he is.

    APPLE:
    I'm not! I had a 40 million dollar profit last quarter!

    CART MASTER:
    He isn't?

    MICROSOFT:
    Well, he will be soon. He's very ill.

    APPLE:
    I'm getting better!

    MICROSOFT:
    No, you're not. You'll be stone dead in a moment.

    To see the original: Bring out your dead.

    Seriously, I think I made a bad bet.

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  5. Re:And you people said Apple was overpriced... by presearch · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Unless, of course, you bought it 10 years ago.

    ...and sold it two years ago.

  6. During a 'shipment limited' quarter too! by freerangegeek · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Given the 'reported' problems with the importing the new iMacs and that the units only seem to have been shipping in large quantities in the last month or so, I think this is amazingly good news. With the new 10G iPod and the ability to ship iMacs at rate, I suspect Q2 is going to be prettty damn amazing for apple.

    Remember folks, almost every other home computer company is really struggling to make numbers these days. Apple made them with production problems.