Apples Bite at the Apple

A MarketPoint Infographic

Highest Quarterly Profits of Any Public Company in History

Apple announces

$18.9 Billion in profit for the First Quarter of FY 2015 (1)

Previous Record Holders:

20
15

$18.9

10
5
0

$15.9 (1)

$16.8 (2)

$16.2 (2)

Exxon Corporation

Shell (Netherlands)

Gazprom (Russia)

Record Company Revenues

Quarterly Revenue:

Mac Sales:

iPad Sales

Services Revenue:

Billion (1)

million
units (1)

million
units (1)

Billion
(apps, iTunes, etc.) (1)

$74.6 5.52 21.3

iPhone Sales:

which was

million
units (2)

above
FQ1 2014 (3)

74.5 46%

Thats

>33,000
iPhones sold
per hour

$4.8

Despite a

$50

increase in
the retail price (3)

Chi-Phones?

The Impact of Sales in the Greater China Region

70%

$16.1

21.6%

growth in Sales (2)

Billion in Revenue (2)

of total revenue (2)

Quarterly Earnings and Cash Reserves

Quarterly Earnings:

$3.06 $142 Billion

per diluted share (1)

in net cash reserves (4)

How Does Apples Quarterly Profit Stack Up?

Its more than

Its nearly

3 times 4 times

Its more than

the market cap

the quarterly the quarterly of the bottom

profit reported profit reported 240 companies

by Microsoft (5) by Samsung (5) of the S&P 500 (5)
Its more than 435 of the companies

in the S&P 500 index each made

in total profits since 2009 (3)

Its more than the combined net

profit of all 50 companies
that make up Indias Nifty 50 (5)

Just How Big is Apple, Now?

Apple is the most valuable company in the world

$630 billion

The companys market cap stands at

Thats almost one-third of the size of Indias economy (5)

Apples cash pile has been estimated to be as high as $178 billion (5)
Thats more than the market cap of

Its enough to pay every American

483 of the S&P 500 companies (5)

$556 (5)

(1) Staff, Apple obliterates expectations, selling 74.5M iPhones & earning $18B in profit, 27 January 2015, sourced 30 January 2015, http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/01/27/
apple-obliterates-expectations-selling-745m-iphones-earning-18b-in-profit
(2) Parmy Olson, Forbes, Apple Posted The Biggest Quarterly Profit In History, Forbes, 1-28-2014, sourced 30 January 2015, http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/
2015/01/28/apple-posted-the-biggest-quarterly-profit-in-history/
(3) Daisuke Wakabayashi, Staggering iPhone Demand Helps Lift Apples Quarterly Profit by 38%, The Wall Street Journal, 28 January 2015, sourced 30 January 2015,
http://www.wsj.com/articles/staggering-iphone-demand-helps-lift-apples-quarterly-profit-by-38-1422394222
(4) BBC, Apple posts the biggest quarterly profit in history, BBC News Business, 28 January 2015, sourced 30 January 2015, http://www.bbc.com/news/business-31012410
(5) Varun Sinha, Decoded: Apples Record Quarterly Profit of $18 Billion, NDTV Profit, 29 January 2015, sourced 30 January 2015, http://profit.ndtv.com/news/tech-media-telecom/
article-decoded-apples-record-quarterly-profit-of-18-billion-735401