Apple released its fiscal second quarter results Wednesday afternoon, reporting earnings of $6.40 per share on $24.67 billion revenue. This compared with Wall Street analyst predictions of $5.35 earnings per share on $23.27 billion in revenue.
The company announced that it sold 18.65 million iPhone units in the second fiscal quarter, 4.69 million iPad units and 3.76 million Macintosh computers. The company’s gross margin was 41.4%.
As has been the case the last few quarters, the only negative in Apple’s financial picture is the iPod division. iPod sales declined 17% from the year-ago quarter, with 9.02 million units sold.
Looking forward to the next quarter, Apple is predicting earnings per share of $5.03 on $23 billion in revenue. It isn’t clear from Apple’s filing what the projected impact from the devastation in Japan will have on Apple’s upcoming product announcements.
We’ll have more coverage of Apple’s earnings later this afternoon.
mashable.com
