Another heavyweight, stock market giant Apple, opened its books on Thursday. This is how the iGroup performed.
For Apple, the fourth fiscal quarter of 2025 ended with an increase in earnings. Earnings per share improved from $0.970 to $1.85, meaning the smartphone maker earned more than the market expected ($1.78 per share).
At $102.47 billion, quarterly sales were just above expert expectations, which had previously amounted to $102.17 billion. In the same period last year, revenues of $94.93 billion were still on the books.
For the full fiscal year, earnings per share increased to $7.46. In the previous year, EPS of $6.08 was generated here. Meanwhile, the preliminary estimates were $7.38.
Apple sales rose to $416.161 billion in the 2025 fiscal year, after experts had previously estimated $415.37 billion. In the fiscal year 2024, sales amounted to $391.04 billion.
Apple grew as expected in the fourth quarter of the last fiscal year 2024/25 despite problems in China. The iPhone manufacturer announced on Thursday in Cupertino that sales increased by eight percent to 102.5 billion dollars (89 billion euros) compared to the previous year. Operating profit in the three months to September 27th climbed by almost ten percent to $32.4 billion.
The bottom line is that thanks to a significantly lower tax burden, the group earned $27.5 billion, 86 percent more than a year ago. Sales were in line with the forecasts of the experts surveyed by Bloomberg; The profit, however, exceeded expectations.
Alphabet shares temporarily climbed 1.58 percent to $275.68 on the NASDAQ after hours on Thursday.
Editorial team finanzen.net / CUPERTINO (dpa-AFX)
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