18.10.2010 22:53 Uhr, Quelle: The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Apple releases Q4 results: $20.34B revenue, $4.31B profits

Top line: hell of a beat. Apple today reports earnings of $4.31 billion, or $4.64 a share, in the fiscal fourth quarter, versus $1.82 a share in the year-ago quarter. Street guess was $4.08 a share on sales of $18.90 billion, according to Thomson Reuters, so like I said: hell of a beat. 3.98 million Macs were sold during the quarter (not 4M, but close, very close) 14.1m iPhones (almost 2x the previous year's number), 4.19m iPads sold in Q4. Looking ahead, Peter Oppenheimer forecasts $23B in revenue and $4.80 per share earnings in the holiday quarter. Given the degree to which this quarter beat the predictions whoa. Join us at 5pm ET for the

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