Apple [NASDAQ: APPL] has announced its Q3 2010 financials, which saw the company hit an all-time revenue total.
Thanks in particular to the iPad launch, and strong iPhone and Mac sales, revenue for the three months ending June 26, was $15.7 billion, up 61 percent year-on-year.
Profit was up 78 percent from Q3 2009 to $3.25 billion, and the company generated over $4 billion of cash.
However it is worth pointing out Apple changed its accounting practices a couple quarters ago, recognising almost all iPhone revenue at once, instead of spreading it over the 24 months of many phone contracts. This makes strict year-on-year comparisons tricky.
Sell, sell, sell
In terms of hardware sales, Apple sold 8.4 million iPhones, up 61 percent year-on-year, and including 1.7 million iPhone 4s as sold during the last three days of the quarter. Overall this is a slight decline from the second quarter total of 8.75 million.
The iPad, which launched April 3 saw total sales of 3.27 million. Apple also experienced a 33 percent jump in Mac sales to 3.47 million, while iPod sales declined 8 percent to 9.41 million.
"It was a phenomenal quarter that exceeded our expectations all around, including the most successful product launch in Apple's history with iPhone 4," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO.
"IPad is off to a terrific start, more people are buying Macs than ever before, and we have amazing new products still to come this year."
Invest to profit
Apple ended the quarter with $36 billion in cash, cash equivalents and other short-term securities and other assets, compared to $41.7 billion at the end of Q2 2010. The difference is no doubt due to costs associated with the iPad and iPhone 4 launches.
In this context, the expected $175 million cost of giving away free iPhone 4 bumpers is fairly minor.
Apple's gross margin was 39.1 percent compared to 40.9 percent in the year-ago quarter, and 41.7 percent in Q2 2010. International sales accounted for 52 percent of the quarter's revenue.
[source: Apple]
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