Apple’s highest profit estimate, even if competitive dentation, Chinese iPhone sales
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Although the iPhone is facing more and more competition in China, Apple’s quarterly profits and income have gradually been predicted by Wall Street.
The December quarterly revenue reported by the group on Thursday was $ 124.3 billion, which was higher than the estimation of analysts in the same period of the previous year. Net income climbed about 7 % to US $ 36.3 billion, higher than expected $ 35.5 billion.
However, iPhone’s sales were $ 69.1 billion, but slightly lower than expected about $ 7.1 billion.
The income in China was under pressure from local smartphone manufacturers (such as Huawei and Xiaomi). The revenue of stocks was about 11 % to $ 18.5 billion.
Apple said that although the negative impact of foreign rejuvenation on about 2.5 percentage points, it is expected that the income growth rate of unit revenue in March is as low as medium.
December is the first since Apple launched Apple Information. Its artificial intelligence function includes establishing a partnership with OpenAI. These functions have not been introduced in language other than English, and the company adopts the method of staggered. More languages will be added in April.
Apple’s chief financial officer, Kevan Parekh, told the Financial Times that the company’s “profound impact on AI was very optimistic.” Parekh played this position this year and replaced Luca Maestri, who has worked for ten years.
Parekh said that supporting AI-AI-AI-AI-AI-Diphone 16 is much stronger than the market without Apple information. In the phone call with analysts, Apple CEO Tim Cook said this trend is “positive indicators”.
The Gene Munster of Deepwater Asset Management said: “They still insist that Apple intelligence is the driving force for sales and say they have data to support it.”
Munster said that Apple’s guidance this quarter was encouraged and may offset any negative impact of its iPhone sales errors on its stock. The stock price increased by about 3 % after get off work.
Apple’s service business includes App Store, iCloud, and Apple Pay, and its record revenue in the December quarterly quarterly was $ 26.3 billion. Its iPad and MacBook products have promoted double -digit growth.
Due to the continuous increase in the impact on the trade policy of Donald Trump. U.S. President this week promised to impose tariffs on Taiwan semiconductor manufacturers. Apple’s supply chain seriously relies on Asian exporters.
Parekh refused to comment on potential tariff risks, saying that the company had “closely monitored the situation.”
The result of Apple was a week after the turbulence of the technology stock, of which NVIDIA’s stock involved the anxiety driver of Chinese Deepseek around the AI breakthrough.
Its stocks are separated from a wider range of technology markets. This week, the market value of NVIDIA’s market value of $ 60 billion has made the iPhone Maker the most valuable company in the world, about 360 million US dollars.
Prior to the Apple’s revenue report, the analysts provided any meaningful enhanced sales for the Apple Intelligence (not yet reached the staggered of non -British speakers) for a short period of time.
