Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Apple and Netflix Announce Earnings


Apple
In both revenue and net income, Apple posted the smallest increases in years for the April to June period, failing to meet analyst expectations.
  • Net income in the fiscal fourth quarter was $8.8 billion, or $9.32 per share. That was up 21% from $7.3 billion, or $7.79 per share, a year ago. Analysts polled by FactSet were expecting earnings of $10.37 per share.
  • Revenue was $35 billion, up 23%. Analysts were expecting $37.5 billion.
  • Apple sold 26 million iPhones in the quarter, at the low end of expectations. It sold 17 million iPads, beating forecasts of 16 million.

Netflix
  • $6.2 million net income
  • That's 6 cents per share
  • $889 million in revenue
  • US subscribers grew modestly from 23.41 million to 23.9 million
  • Subscribers outside of the US went up from 3.07 million to 3.7 million
  • Non-US posted a loss of $89 million
  • Meanwhile, the company's profitable but shrinking DVD business continued to dwindle, dropping from just over 10 million to 9.2 million. 
See Microsoft and Google's earnings here, and Facebook and Zynga's earnings here.

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