14 DAY TRIAL // Later this month Apple plans to disclose the amount of cash it earned from sales of the iPhone, iPad, Macs, as well as other products sold by the Cupertino giant. A conference call will be held on January 27 with the purpose of officially disclosing these numbers.
In the usual manner, the company will live-stream the isolated event where Apple’s financial department will do most of the talking while analysts will listen carefully to what they have to say.
Free for all
Anyone can listen to streaming audio from the conference call, so long as they have an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch running iOS 4.2 or above, any Mac running OS X 10.6.8 or above or any PC running QuickTime 7 or later.
Apple’s first fiscal quarter of every year starts in the fall of the previous year, in this case October 2014. The quarter ended in December, which means Apple is already taking notes for its Q2 disclosure a few months from now.
In the interest of all investors
The Mac maker confirms the event on its Investor Relations site, where it states “Q1 FY15 Earnings Release. Apple’s conference call to discuss first fiscal quarter results is scheduled for Tuesday, January 27, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. PT / 5:00 p.m. ET.”
iPhone is expected to have sold in record numbers, while the iPad business is expected to register weaker numbers compared to the year-ago-quarter.
iPods should no longer be part of the earnings report, as the players have been selling less and less units with each passing quarter, being cannibalized by the iPhone, which basically has a built-in iPod.
iPad sales are on the decline also because of the iPhone (namely the larger iPhone 6 Plus), but this is a tradeoff that Apple has no problem with, according to analysts.
For its Q4 2014 Apple posted $42.1 Bn / €35.18 Bn in revenue from from sales of 39 million iPhones, 12.3 million iPads, and 5.5 million Macs. For Q1 2015, it estimated that it would rake in between $63.5 Bn / €53.07 Bn and $66.5 Bn / €55.57 Bn.