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Apple had a sweet Q4, with profit soaring to $8.2bn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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However, despite the mammoth result investors still were not happy as it missed expectations of $8.75bn earnings. <\/p>\n

Shares slipped over 1.5% to $607.98 after the earnings announcement, yesterday.<\/p>\n

Still, Apple’s net profit marks over a $1.5bn jump from the same time last year of $6.6bn. <\/p>\n

Apple’s 2012 fiscal fourth quarter to September 29, saw revenue also soar to $36 billion, or $8.67 per diluted share. <\/p>\n

Read: Apple CEO Describes Win 8 Surface Tablet As ‘Compromised & Confusing’ <\/a><\/p>\n

This compares to revenue of $28.3bn or $7.05 per diluted share, Q4 2011. <\/p>\n

Apple sold 26.9 million iPhones, a whopping 58 % unit growth y-o-y, and launched the iPhone 5 in September selling 5 million on first weekend alone.<\/p>\n

“Demand continues to outsrip supply” Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer, assured investors at its earnings call. <\/p>\n

Possible lower earnings next quarter was also hinted at in earnings guidance of $11.75 a share on $52 bn revenue in the crucial December quarter. <\/p>\n

iPad and iPhone sales may also be hit by component supply issues, which has already affected supply of the iPhone 5. <\/p>\n

Apple boss Tim Cook admitted the Company is in a “significant state of backlog right now,” forcing investors to question when demand and supply will be reconciled. Cook also confirmed shortages of the new model iMac would be a definite this quarter. <\/p>\n

Apple launched a slew of products this quarter including the iPhone 5, iPad mini, iPods and iMac, pushing manufacturing to full capacity<\/p>\n

However, Cook added “we remain very confident in our new product pipeline.”<\/p>\n

14 million iPads were sold during the quarter, up 26%, although analysts had forecast tablet<\/a> sales to hit 17m, partly blamed on expectations of the iPad mini. <\/p>\n

However, iPods didn’t fare nearly as well, despite several new product launches, with sales dropping almost 20%, to 5.3 million. <\/p>\n

International sales accounted for a massive 60% of Cupertino’s revenue, who recently opened its biggest store in China, its most important market outside the US. <\/p>\n

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The Company sold 4.9 m Macs during the quarter, up just 1%.<\/p>\n

“We’re very proud to end a fantastic fiscal year with record September quarter results,” said Cook.<\/p>\n

Apple has generated over $41 billion in net income and over $50 billion in operating cash flow in fiscal 2012, Oppenheimer,  also revealed. <\/p>\n

Apple’s Board declared a cash dividend of $2.65 per share of the Company’s common stock, which is payable on November 15. <\/p>\n

Gross margin also dipped slightly to 40 percent compared to 40.3 percent in the year-ago quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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