14 DAY TRIAL // Apple has announced the financial results for its fiscal 2013 second quarter ended March 30, 2013. The iPhone maker posted quarterly revenue of $43.6 billion / €33.5 billion and quarterly net profit of $9.5 billion / €7.3 billion.
The company’s gross margin was 37.5 percent, slightly lower than last year’s 47.4 percent in the same quarter, while 66 percent of the quarter’s revenue came from international sales.
Product-wise, the Cupertino mammoth sold 37.4 million iPhones (compared to the 35.1 million units sold in the year-ago quarter), 19.5 million iPads (up quite a bit from the 11.8 million shipped in the year-ago quarter), and “just under 4 million Macs, compared to 4 million in the year-ago quarter.”
Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s CFO, said, “Our cash generation remains very strong, with $12.5 billion in cash flow from operations during the quarter and an ending cash balance of $145 billion.”